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[ROMARY]

Some folks here haven't believed me, but in my local area, way too many texters, texting while walking, driving, etc. Seems as though just about everyone (around here) is looking down, no matter where they are. In stores, in malls, crossing streets, and worst of all, driving. Sorry to say.

[QueenDanceALot]

An idiot high school kid rearended my car with a giant SUV almost a year ago. I was stopped at a stop sign. I caught a quick glimpse in my rearview as I saw him not slowing down to stop. He was leaning over to the passenger side to look at his friend's phone (the friend never looked up from her phone while we waited for the cops and his father to arrive).

The guy's excuse for hitting me?

"I thought you had gone already".

Oh. Okay.

And THEN he said, "Well, I needed a new front bumper on this rig anyway".

I said, "Well, I didn't".

Thankfully I wasn't hurt, just my car or I WOULD have sued his behind. His father told me this wasn't the first or even SECOND time this has happened with his kid in the past year.

He's probably back out there doing the same thing.

[QueenDanceALot]

On 11/7/2014 ROMARY said:

Some folks here haven't believed me, but in my local area, way too many texters, texting while walking, driving, etc. Seems as though just about everyone (around here) is looking down, no matter where they are. In stores, in malls, crossing streets, and worst of all, driving. Sorry to say.

I believe you. I see it all the time.

Sad to me. These people spend huge amounts of their lives looking at a phone. They don't even know how to relate to people face to face.

[QueenDanceALot]

I got up from a table at a restaurant when the guy I was with was paying more attention to his stupid phone than he was to me.

Rude!!!

I DID have a big crush on another guy I was dating who was always blowing up my phone and I wanted to answer hime IMMEDIATELY no matter where I was. And he acted kind of pi-ssed off when I didn't. But I don't text while I'm driving. Absolutely not.

Long story short, he acted pi-ssed a lot. I had to get over my big crush.

[chickenbutt]

On 11/7/2014 KittyLouWhoToo said:

An idiot high school kid rearended my car with a giant SUV almost a year ago. I was stopped at a stop sign. I caught a quick glimpse in my rearview as I saw him not slowing down to stop. He was leaning over to the passenger side to look at his friend's phone (the friend never looked up from her phone while we waited for the cops and his father to arrive).

The guy's excuse for hitting me?

"I thought you had gone already".

Oh. Okay.

And THEN he said, "Well, I needed a new front bumper on this rig anyway".

I said, "Well, I didn't".

Thankfully I wasn't hurt, just my car or I WOULD have sued his behind. His father told me this wasn't the first or even SECOND time this has happened with his kid in the past year.

He's probably back out there doing the same thing.

What a jerk! Gee, maybe a quick look-see through the windshield would have told him that you were still there. Sounds like one of those who won't learn until he ends up killing somebody and then, even still, it probably won't make much of an impression since he's still alive to tell about it.

I wish people wouldn't do this. You don't need to be on the phone while you are driving. period. How arrogant that people out there think they absolutely must be attached to their phone every minute, with not one iota of consideration for the fact that they could kill somebody else.

[nekodaisy]

I see it all the time and I don't text or talk while driving. Till they change the laws about it it will continue. Maybe if they hit and kill someone make it a mandatory life sentence or something. They can always tell if you are on the phone or something.

I just don't get how they do it. I can barely adjust my volume on my radio let alone try to text and then I would have to be digging for my reading glasses just so I could see to do it.

[Colinka]

My daughter's best friend was killed when she was too busy texting her boyfriend to see that she had crossed the center line. Unfortunately, the lady in the other car that she hit was also killed. Two precious lives wasted for a silly message. No one in my family will ever text and drive, nor use a cell phone while driving. Distracted driving is deadly driving.

[chrystaltree]

Yes, regardless of any laws, people are addicted to their cell phones and they will continue to do it. Actually, I'm surprised that there aren't more accidents. You see the imbeciles weaving from lane to lane or failing to proceed when the light changes because they are so engrossed in the phone call that they didn't even see the light change to green. You can always tell the people who do....the ones who makeup stories about OTHER people being distracted while driving...lol It's a sure sign of guilty person! I just don't understand the cell phone addiction. You see it everywhere. On the commuter bus this morning. Ditzo woman with phone pressed to her ear and 3 tote bags gets on (yak yak yaking) and instead of swiping her bus pass and taking a seat......she stands in front of the fare box (blocking the people in back of her) and slowly (because she still yaking) starts rifling through her bags looking for her bus pass. Now, her mouth was running a mile a minute to whoever she was talking to but her body was in sloooowwwwww motion. Worst of all, she was totally oblivious to the fact that she was holding up an entire bus full of people!

[beach-mom]

On 11/7/2014 colinka said:

My daughter's best friend was killed when she was too busy texting her boyfriend to see that she had crossed the center line. Unfortunately, the lady in the other car that she hit was also killed. Two precious lives wasted for a silly message. No one in my family will ever text and drive, nor use a cell phone while driving. Distracted driving is deadly driving.

Years ago DD would lay the phone in her lap while driving. If someone texted her she would glance down and text back while still "driving." This bothered me. She's always been responsible in every area - except this one. After she got out of high school, she started to realize what this could mean and stopped. She still does it at stop lights, but will ignore texts after the light turns green. A few weeks ago a sweet young girl who was a restaurant server at our favorite breakfast place was killed in a one-car accident. She had been texting. We saw her almost every Saturday morning, and we had known her since she started working there - following her life through college and graduation.

You're right - distracted driving of any kind IS deadly driving. I don't even answer my phone unless I pull over.

[Plaid Pants]

Well, seeing how a 19 year old boy plowed in to the back of my truck when I was stopped at a red light, I would have to say that driving while talking on cell phone or texting, is very dangerous.

I called the police out to get a police report, and when I got my copy of it, the 19 year old boy told the cop that *I* stopped short on him! Uh, no, you dumb---! Even if what he said was true, he, as the driver behind me, has the responsibility to make sure that there is enough distance between his front bumper, and my back bumper, so that if I were to stop, he would have enough distance to stop, without plowing in to me.

He didn't even try to apply his brakes. There was no squealing of tires or anything, which leads me to believe that he was texting, or otherwise on his phone, at the moment of impact. I have no way to prove it, on way or the other, but it is just my gut feeling that he was.

Here's the kicker. The vehicle that he was driving, wasn't even his. It was owned by some woman in So. Cal.

The force of the impact, forced my front bumper in to the rear bumper of the car in front of me.

The car in front of me was at a full and complete stop at the red light, so, naturally, *I* was at a full and complete stop, too.

Then, next thing I know, BAM!

Jerk!