Thread: Pet Peeves?

Aloha!

I was driving behind a woman today (she looked perhaps 45 ish so not a youngster) and she was all over the road. I decided I had to put her behind me for my safety. As I passed her I saw she was playing with her phone. This was on a major beltway around a major city during a busy Saturday afternoon. Hokey smokes Bullwinkle, are you nuts lady? Goofing around with a smartphone while driving is really a national epidemic, and it has to be stopped. It's more than dangerous, it's downright suicidal - and you may take some poor unfortunate others with you.

I broke down on I-75 in Georgia once and had to get a tow. I drive a German Import and have the 200 mile tow package from AAA. The nearest dealer for my car was about 180 miles away, so I got a long ride in a tow truck. A very BIG tow truck, the kind that sets you up about 10 feet in the cab. After a while, I notice we're handily passing cars. Odd I think. How fast is this driver going? So I ask him, "How fast are you going?" He says, about 65. Really? And we're easily passing so many cars on a major highway in a 70 mph zone? So I start looking at the people in the cars we're passing and I notice they are ALL playing with their phones and not paying full attention to their driving. No wonder we're passing them so easily. The tow driver told me he sees this all day every day.

That really alarmed me. I am usually driving and don't get a chance to peer into cars I'm passing, especially from a high vantage poit. Makes me want to trade in the car for an armored vehicle.

-Zip