Nationwide Insurance is, despite the ads, probably not on your side all the time. Like when you’re driving and talking on your cell phone the way that 80% of us seem to do. They’ve done a survey. In a study published last year by Harris Interactive, 92 percent of Americans said driving while talking on the phone was as bad as getting behind the wheel of a car after having a few drinks.
Hang up and drive, people. And, since you can’t text without looking at the keyboard, don’t even try it.
Another plus about scootering — unless you wear an Uhura, no riding-and-cellphoning.
Take the bus, someday. While you wait at the bus stop, make note of the number of people who simply cannot wait to get where they’re going to make that call.
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I’m not too big on talking on the cellphone (or an phone for that matter), but when I do, and I’m driving, I use a bluetooh headset. At that point, I don’t see how it’s any different than just speaking with a passenger in the car.
I’ve been commuting from Murfreesboro to Nashville for a little more than two years now, but for some reason within the last few months I’ve noticed a surge in the number of people I see texting while driving. On the interstate.
I have noticed at least three people on a weekly basis swerving in and out of their lanes (usually in the HOV lane, traveling single, of course), and when I drive past them I see they are texting. At first I thought, maybe they’re just dialing a phone number, but I think I was being too hopeful.
Also, anyone I’ve ever seen texting while driving has not been a teenager.
Megan:
You could rat them out to the Po-Leese (they can match up the time of your call to the text message). We should get something something good from Heimat Sicherheits, after all.
I know it drives me crazy when I see that. It distracted me so much I burned myself on the hibachi. I love fast food, “75 mph ribs” are in going to be in my new cookbook.