Text Twist

I have noticed on my way back and forth from campus a large number of people texting while they are driving. This has always seemed like a bad idea to me, and mostly you see young girls texting, while talking to friends and driving, but you also see guys. They are even texting while walking across campus and crossing the streets. I always wonder, do they think this is safe, have they not seen the news about people dying in car crashes, due to texting. I know that we all take our eyes off the road, take our hands off the wheel, reach down to grab our pop, or change the radio, and that is bad enough, because you never know what the person in the other lane is going to do. But to text? That actually takes some thought, and longer than a short glance away from the lane. I know that people get really comfortable with their phones, where the keys are, what buttons to push, and so on and so forth. This seems just a little extreme to me. What could be so important that it cant wait until you get to where you are going? Are our lives so busy, and so full, and are we really so sure, that what we have to say is that important to the person we are texting, that it is worth putting ourselves and others on the road with us in danger. I don't think so, and neither do a lot of other people.

I was just thinking about what I was going to blog this week, as this is not an easy thing for me to do. I had just decided after driving to school on Tuesday, and passing 6 cars from Broadway to Campus, that had people texting, that this is what I was going to blog on. I kept thinking, why don't they do something about this problem? Then when I was watching the news, their was a story about Morehead University and the fender bender problem they have around their campus, due to texting while driving. They felt a need to be able to stop this, or at least hinder it a bit, but the law was not on their side. Can you believe that in Kentucky, it is not illegal to text while you are driving? They are trying to get these laws changed, but it is a slow and long process. In the meantime, the campus and city officers have found a way to ticket drivers that are caught texting, or cause an accident because of texting. They are going to be able to ticket drivers under a law that is for operating a vehicle in a reckless manner. Good for them, I hope UK campus is next. Until then ," BE SAFE, Don't Text and Drive." LOL.