Do you text or talk on the cell while you drive?

I am guilty as charged. Trying to quit! I wonder if there is a 12 step program for texting while driving?

I'm scared as hell knowing that, as much as I enjoy riding my motorcycle, there are so many folks on the roads that are paying half-arsed attention, at best!..... I've had a few near-misses over the past two years on account of cell phone users.

Believe it or not, though, last week I saw a guy (I think his name was Dipstick) riding his Harley past Grand Boulevard, in traffic, and talking on his cell phone! I love me, and my motorcycle, wife, and kids too much to do something THAT dumb.

I think natural selection will take care of the texter/drivers. They may take a few of us with them, but oh well.

I'm scared as hell knowing that, as much as I enjoy riding my motorcycle, there are so many folks on the roads that are paying half-arsed attention, at best!..... I've had a few near-misses over the past two years on account of cell phone users.

Believe it or not, though, last week I saw a guy (I think his name was Dipstick) riding his Harley past Grand Boulevard, in traffic, and talking on his cell phone! I love me, and my motorcycle, wife, and kids too much to do something THAT dumb.

It's not a near miss, it's a near hit. A collision is a near miss.

I think natural selection will take care of the texter/drivers. They may take a few of us with them, but oh well.

"Oh well..." my #*%+!!.....I've grown to like me (though it's taken a while)! And my wife/kids would be supremely bummed/po'd if "natural selection" due to others (whose heads are neatly tucked into their butts) took me out.....

I think natural selection will take care of the texter/drivers. They may take a few of us with them, but oh well.

That is so true. Everyone of y'all stop it!!!!!

I have tried to talk and drive and I noticed a complete change in my driving skills. Scary. The idea of me texting and driving is lunacy.

I'm doing a presentation at a conference this fall on texting, emailing, and social media. In my research, I ran across an article where a university did a study finding that 18 wheeler drivers are 23% more likely to wreck while texting, 6% more likely to wreck for talking on the cell phone. Lots of articles about texting etiquette, even Peggy Post has commentary on not texting at the table!

"Oh well..." my #*%+!!.....I've grown to like me (though it's taken a while)! And my wife/kids would be supremely bummed/po'd if "natural selection" due to others (whose heads are neatly tucked into their butts) took me out.....

I know, but what can you do? OK I admit, I'm hoping that I'm not one of the innocents during the time which our population is "pruned" of the texters.

I'm a talker, but my phone has voice commands, speaker phone, etc.......

The idea of me texting and driving is lunacy.

Is that why you never text me?

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YouTube - PSA Texting while Driving, U.K., August 2009, Peter Watkins-Hughes - Newport School of AMD, Wales

Graphic.

YouTube - PSA Texting while Driving, U.K., August 2009, Peter Watkins-Hughes - Newport School of AMD, Wales

Parents if you have kids that drive; call them in the room, make the video full screen, and press play.

Parents if you have kids that drive; call them in the room, make the video full screen, and press play.

Excellent idea.

Adults, if you text and drive, make the video full screen and press play.

Question.. hands free cell phoning talking in the car, is it safer.... yay or nay?

According to most European countries, no. Really anything that distracts you from driving makes it unsafe to do. I really try to concentrate when I drive, but every once in a while I suddenly realize that I don't remember the last couple of miles.

According to most European countries, no. Really anything that distracts you from driving makes it unsafe to do. I really try to concentrate when I drive, but every once in a while I suddenly realize that I don't remember the last couple of miles.

Totally agree. The mind wanders enough on it's own!

Amen, *whistling* here boy, come home, want a treat?

no longer text and drive, i pull over now.

YouTube- This Show Could Save Your Life: America's New Deadly Obsession

I am guilty as charged. Trying to quit! I wonder if there is a 12 step program for texting while driving?

FUNNY!!!

no longer text and drive, i pull over now.

YouTube- This Show Could Save Your Life: America's New Deadly Obsession

Thanks for posting this aggieb, I'm not going to watch it cause it would probably make me sick to my stomach cause I've heard of the tapes that are being played to stop people from texting. My daughter isn't allowed to text while driving.

Thanks for posting this aggieb, I'm not going to watch it cause it would probably make me sick to my stomach cause I've heard of the tapes that are being played to stop people from texting. My daughter isn't allowed to text while driving.

you text and drive, don't you? where's that nodding head smiley you posted the other day? enter it here.

what else do you do while texting and driving?

you text and drive, don't you? where's that nodding head smiley you posted the other day? enter it here.

what else do you do while texting and driving?

I know how to text, but I don't text. I don't even like talking on the phone. I am a bad girl while driving. I put on eyeliner, drink coffee, smoke cigarrettes, look at scenery, and talk on the phone. If water is near, I have to look at it, but I make sure no one is coming toward me in the other lane. The phone is on speaker, coffee rests in the holder, eyeliner in one hand applied by touch not sight, cig in the other on the wheel. bad girl