Well, it happened again today. Once again, some idiot with a cell phone plastered to her ear put my life at risk by blowing through a stop sign and almost crashing into me.
After giving this driver the one-fingered salute, and unleashing a debased torrent of insults questioning her intelligence, breeding and chastity, I calmed down and realized I had almost been in a really bad accident.
I hope it was a really, really important conversation she was having, like she’d just found the cure for cancer and was calling the Center for Disease Control to say “Hey CDC, normally I wouldn’t call you while driving because it’s so amazingly rude and dangerous to myself and others around me, but I just found a way to beat that whole cancer thing and I really had to let you know!”
In 2006, researchers at the University of Utah found that talking on a cell phone while driving was as dangerous as driving drunk and that drivers who talked on their cellphone while driving were four times more likely to be involved in crashes resulting in injury. None of this is brain surgery.
Studies show that text messaging is just as dangerous as talking because it distracts drivers and takes their eyes off the road.
I am sure most people reading this have driven while on the phone and are well aware that it really does indeed distract you when driving.
I have done it, too, but I learned my lesson after almost crashing into the car in front of me at a red light one time, like a complete jackass. It was a close call and a lesson learned.
It really is a lot cheaper to just pull off the road if you have to take a call while you driving.
I mean, compared to paying your deductible and then increased insurance rates in the future after you totally rear-end somebody and mess up both their car and yours, and then having to stand there going “Whoops! Sorry, didn’t see you there because I was on the phone,” like an idiot while waiting for the tow truck to arrive, it should be a no-brainer.
And that’s just assuming the worst doesn’t happen, and an ambulance or coroner’s van does not have to be called. Bummer.
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