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Re: OT: Distracted living - cellphone rant


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Posted by GregCo on August 20, 2015 at 20:39:27 from (69.35.184.187):

In Reply to: OT: Distracted living - cellphone rant posted by JML755 on August 20, 2015 at 11:07:55:

I don't understand the sudden need to be available 24-7 for calls or texts. Like most I have a phone, but wont use it while driving or when I'm in a store or most public places for that matter. I think it's rude. When I do get a call I tend to walk off somewhere out of the way of everybody else.

A few years ago I get a call at work that my daughter has been in a car wreck while driving down the highway. I left work and drove to the scene of the accident. Her car was completely demolished. Not a straight panel on it or a piece of glass left in it. The front suspension was ripped out and fluids running everywhere and air bags all deployed. Single car accident. Nobody else involved but her. After finishing up with the state patrol and her newly acquired piece of scrap metal loaded on a roll back headed to the crusher I asked what the heck happen. Her answer was " it just went in the ditch". Really? straight stretch of dry road no other cars involved and it just jumped in the ditch? Yep. The guy behind her stopped and when I was talking to him he said it was the strangest thing. She just drove off the road and never hit the brakes. He said the car went over twice before it stopped and ended up on it's top.
It took her a year to fess up to what really happen. Texting while driving. Cost her a really nice Volvo I bought her for graduation a year earlier. We were really lucky. All she had was a small cut and a sprained wrist.

Greg


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