Just Say Goo

Cellphones have become a menace to society, a necessary evil making it easy to communicate while we area away from home, but in terms of creating stupid behavoir, they are the devil. Talking while driving is bad enough, but texting while driving, on a highway, traveling 60 mph in heavy traffic.... WHY? do you want to die?

Hindu God's have 6 arms. They can talk on the phone, put on makeup and eat all at the same time. You do not, you have two. It takes two hands to drive safely so why does anyone want to take this risk? You might think you are important, which is why you are answering the flurry of texts coming your way. But really stop and think about this...is your life so trivial and insignificant that you are willing to risk dying just to answer a text message?

We don't even know where to begin to address this, so lets start with some statistics.84 percent of cell phone users stated that they believe using a cell phone while driving increases the risk of being in an accident. Teenagers seem to be the worst offenders. Gee, what a surprise and they have not been driving very long so don't have much behind the wheel experience. Why are they doing something that further distracts them from driving?

• Each year, 21% of fatal car crashes involving teenagers between the ages of 16 and 19 were the result of cell phone usage. This result has been expected to grow as much as 4% every year.
• Almost 50% of all drivers between the ages of 18 and 24 are texting while driving.

WTF? do you want to live to see your next birthday? do you want to graduate from high school? Do you think your parents would be happy to know that you ended up as road-kill? How can you focus on the road and the other cars around you when you are click-click-clicking your life away.

Now on to the adults, if we can seriously call them that. Here are some stats for you:

• Talking on a cell phone causes nearly 25% of car accidents.
• One-fifth of experienced adult drivers in the United States send text messages while driving.
• Studies have found that texting while driving causes a 400 percent increase in time spent with eyes off the road.
  

Don't you need your eyes on the road to drive? Thought so. So put your damned phones away, put your hands on the wheel, eyes on the road, and shut your pieholes and focus. You might just save someone's life, or your own.

And if this is not enough for you, please consider reading this post..but be warned, the images are frightening and hopefully enough to ensure you will never text while driving again.
"NO MORE TEXTING WHILE DRIVING"

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