OMG! WTF! :(

Ths is is anthr tech rant. LOL! Ths time topic is txt messagng. I txt on ocason. It's convenient passive aggressive way to communicate. What I don't do is txt while drivng on a 2-lane rd wth 4 othr loud peeps in my car so I gt distrctd, crss cntr line, and go up in ball of flames. WTF?!

I don't mean to sound flip about a recent tragedy. But before the lawsuits get filed against the phone company that provided the service, against the family of the driver by the families of the other victims, maybe everyone can step and say people need to realize that just because they now have the ability to drive, talk on the phone, text someone and try to figure out where the hell they're going ALL AT THE SAME TIME doesn't mean they should do it.

How many people are going to have to be hurt or die before we realize that driving is serious shit that requires full concentration. No phones, no texting. I know people will say oh but if you have a headset you should be fine. Bullshit. If you have a headset, you are actually more likely to be distracted and a menace on the road because you have lured yourself into a false sense of security.

Of course, the focus will be on teens, but plenty of adults are guilty of this crap too as are the idiot pedestrians who walk down the street either texting, talking or listening and are completely oblivious to what is going on around them and then get pissed off when a car honks at them or someone almost bumps into them.

I'm not advocating laws to solve the problem. We shouldn't need laws to tell us not to do stupid things. And a law like that will be ignored and completely impossible to enforce. What we need is a return to common sense.

Technology is a wonderful thing but while technology continues to get better and more advanced, our ability to do multiple tasks at once doesn't. It's one thing to be at your office doing ten different things because the ones you are not doing all that well at any given time won't result in someone dying. That's not the same the minute you hit the street. Out there your actions have consequences and victims and I don't need to be one of them.

Tlk2ultr!