Okay, I am just so sick of almost getting killed every day on the road by you idiots that think you have to be your cellphone every minute you are in your car. Turn on the radio for God's sake. And I don't care how good of a driver you claim to be when on the phone. You are so lost in your conversation that you do not even realize what you are doing, which is putting yourself and others at risk. Here is what you do when you are on the phone:
1. If you are driving fast, you drive erratically. When I am behind you, you are driving and then turn suddenly to straighten yourself out to get back in your lane. Like you are trying to avoid hitting something on the road you didn't see without switching lanes completely.
2. But more than likely you are not driving fast. You are talking on the phone and then slow down to about 55 mph while driving in the fast lane. You do not notice people coming up hard behind you and then speeding around you while at the same time saying to themselves for you to speed up and get off the phone.
3. Your car starts to drift a lot. All of a sudden, you are driving in two lanes at the same time.
4. Your lane changes are the most deadly. Because you are going so slow (refer to number 2) you do not realize how much faster than you people are going. You glance in your rearview and don't see anyone but are unable to calculate speed and distance traveled of the car coming up hard behind you in the lane you want to switch into. You drift over slowly WITHOUT using your blinker causing the faster car to slam on his brakes and almost kill himself.
5. If you are courteous enough to use your blinker, you forget to turn it off and it is on for the rest of your trip.
And for all of those who swear you don't do any of this while talking on the phone behind the wheel, you are wrong. The moment that phone goes to your ear it is like you have become a 90 year old driver.
1. If you are driving fast, you drive erratically. When I am behind you, you are driving and then turn suddenly to straighten yourself out to get back in your lane. Like you are trying to avoid hitting something on the road you didn't see without switching lanes completely.
2. But more than likely you are not driving fast. You are talking on the phone and then slow down to about 55 mph while driving in the fast lane. You do not notice people coming up hard behind you and then speeding around you while at the same time saying to themselves for you to speed up and get off the phone.
3. Your car starts to drift a lot. All of a sudden, you are driving in two lanes at the same time.
4. Your lane changes are the most deadly. Because you are going so slow (refer to number 2) you do not realize how much faster than you people are going. You glance in your rearview and don't see anyone but are unable to calculate speed and distance traveled of the car coming up hard behind you in the lane you want to switch into. You drift over slowly WITHOUT using your blinker causing the faster car to slam on his brakes and almost kill himself.
5. If you are courteous enough to use your blinker, you forget to turn it off and it is on for the rest of your trip.
And for all of those who swear you don't do any of this while talking on the phone behind the wheel, you are wrong. The moment that phone goes to your ear it is like you have become a 90 year old driver.
