Have Your Head Examined!

[FishermanTim]

How about this scenario:

You're cruising down "whatever" street, texting your friends and
"WHAM!" you're dead because you didn't see that "flippin' greyhound bus that had the right of way.

Or another:

You're cruising down "whatever" street again and "WHAM!" you kill some little kid that was crossong the street, in a crosswalk!

Regardless of how "adept" we may consider ourselves, the laws of average will always win out.

Put the damn phone down and drive. If I wanted someone to see someone multitask on the highway, I'd start my own business and PAY THE DAMN IDIOT!

[Grapenuts]

you folks forget about the deaf...texting is their life line to others.

[Raven]

but i doubt they would do that while driving

[Jenn]

You guys are grumpy old farts! Texting DOES have a time and place (and no its not while driving) but it does offer a way to send a quick message. For example I can text my husband "will be late tonite" instead of calling him and having to have a whole conversation about it while we are trying to work or whatever. I send the message when I have a minute and he reads it when he has a minute.

[Raven]

aren't ya?

maybe you should move this grumpy old pharts thread
to the appropriate section

oops it's already here LOL

[justplugit]

"Old Timers"

Ya, you Youngins-- Now your runnin,soon you'll be walkin.

Enjoy.

[Dad 818]

IMO, it comes down to paying attention. Especially when you drive. Have I texted when driving: yes. While I'm moving: no. Only at red lights and when stuck in traffic. And it's not just drivers who need to pay attention. Recently in Warwick a 15 year-old student was run over by a school bus and killed on her way to school. She crossed the street right near the school without looking. What was she doing? Listening to her I-pod and texting her friends.

[vineyardblues]

I hope the Patrick Deval checks this web site
(Sometime when he is in the office)

PASS A FREAKIN LAW ...NO CELL PHONES

Gee , maybe we can make some money $$$$ with TICKETS and save some lives


BTW..OPEN up the toll Booths on Holidays like they did years ago !!!! Hello , any one Home ??????

[Raven]

Better send them a text message

[Raven]

towtruck driver TALKING AND TEXTING

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32232659...me_and_courts/

[Plum Crazy]

What is TEXTING?
Where did I put that cell phone anyway? I thought I had one.
I don't even answer the damn thing when I am driving, nevermind text anyone.
It is the stupidest invention yet.
Here is a good example...
My niece texted (is that a word?) me to come pick her up at school.
2 hours later I hear a little beep coming from my pocketbook that I left out on the deck. I fly out the door and get her and she is all ticked off. "Why are you so late?"
Well duh, why didn't you just call the house phone?

[stcroixman]

Texting is another form of communication these days, but it is stupid to do while driving. Most people do text these days.

[Plum Crazy]

The worst thing about all of this is that our government has to waste time making laws to make texting while driving illegal.
The American people are too dense to figure out that it is dangerous on their own.
Here's your sign.

[FishermanTim]

Originally Posted by stcroixman

Texting is another form of communication these days, but it is stupid to do while driving. Most people do text these days.

I don't consider it real communication. Unless you can type EXACTLY what you feel, you can't convey emotions in a text.
If nothing more, texting is just another way of "dumbing" yourself down. Although most adults could care less about texting, it's made to look like it's a great innovation created by geniuses, when in fact it's just another wasted enhancement for someone to use their cellphones for.
Wait, they're not cellphones anymore, their combination phone, Ipod, MP3, laptop AND intelligence remover!

[The Dad Fisherman]

Originally Posted by FishermanTim

I don't consider it real communication. Unless you can type EXACTLY what you feel, you can't convey emotions in a text.
If nothing more, texting is just another way of "dumbing" yourself down. Although most adults could care less about texting, it's made to look like it's a great innovation created by geniuses, when in fact it's just another wasted enhancement for someone to use their cellphones for.
Wait, they're not cellphones anymore, their combination phone, Ipod, MP3, laptop AND intelligence remover!

Its like I wrote this post myself...

[Rockfish9]

I cant see to dial the damn phone without my readers ...never mind poke away at numbes and letters... there comes a time when you let the current technolgy pass you bye.. mine has come... hacking my way through the computer is as far as I care to take it...

and for the bone heads that do it( like the bimbo in the middle of main st. Reading last night taking two lanes driving 5mph in a 40).... well.. it's a publuc forum and what I have to say cant be printed here...

[Swimmer]

Originally Posted by Grapenuts

you folks forget about the deaf...texting is their life line to others.

So what do the deaf do, let the service dog drive while they are texting?