Driving and Your Cell (Phone, Not AP Bio)
Pay attention: you cannot text message your friends while driving.
One more time: YOU CANNOT TEXT MESSAGE YOUR FRIENDS WHILE DRIVING.
It’s distracting, and it’s dangerous. Even just talking on the phone, eyes front and on the road, is dangerous. If you want to gab with Betty Sue (man, what decade do we think it is?), have Mom drive and you sit in the passenger seat. If you’re not driving, gab away all you want. Text. Sext. Shmext. Whatever. But texting on a cell is strictly forbidden while you are driving.
Think about what happens statistically: you are 2-3x more likely to hit some innocent person on the road if you are talking on your cell while you’re driving. Why is your setting up a date with Harry more important than Aunt Shari’s health and that of the baby she is carrying in her stomach? Oh, Aunt Shari had her baby? Congratulations! We should send a card…
And while we’re on the subject, drivers under 18 can’t use cell phones at all while they are driving—texting, talking, whatever. It is simply not done.
Exceptions: some medical emergency or you’re calling the cops on someone or some other obvious “don’t think we are complete idiots” kind of exception. See a fire or an explosion? Call the fire department. Duh.