I love cell-phones, I think they are one of the best thing ever invented. Cellphones are great for many reasons, but my favorite is that it allows people to get help when help is needed. I think about how great kids cellphones are in helping parents keep track of their children. Giving parents that luxury of knowing that they can contact their children whenever they need to, or for the kids to be able to call for help is very comforting.
That said, something that really strike a nerve with me are people who use Cell phones while driving. More often than not, those of you who drive and talk are road hazards, accidents waiting to happen. I don’t know if it’s some strange cell phone addiction or a selfish, Go F@k Yourself mentality that makes these idiots think their conversation is more important than the safety of those around them. When you consider text messaging deaths occur every year due to the callousness of individuals talking while driving, this is a public safety issue and not a social one anymore.
And the idiots just don’t get it, no matter how many people honk the car horn, or flip them the bird, these oblivious jack-asses carry on as if nothing’s wrong. I think, that, because some people are too stupid to figure it out for themselves, public awareness campaigns need to be created to curtail the use of cell-phones while driving. That’s right, tax-payer’s money needs to fund advertising campaigns to educate those idiots out there to stop using their cell-phones while driving, much like the seat belt advertising campaigns 20 – 30 years ago. For those of you fed up with these jackasses who care nothing about the safety of others, these idiots idiots that are so inconsiderate that they refuse to stop at the side of a road or parking lot to make that oh-so important call, take a look at the following video. The video is as fake as hell, I mean it’s completely staged, but it brings home the point on how oblivious some cell-phone users and how one pissed-off driver driver dealt with it.
A recurring fantasy of mine: By simply pointing my index finger, I have the ability to weld a cell phone to a driver’s ear . . . a weld that would require surgery to remove the phone.
Wouldn’t that be satisfying?