Have you watched people drive lately?
It's scary.
Last night as I sat in a restaurant I watched a young man driving, albeit very slowly through a parking lot, while reading his phone.
I thought about how he could easy run over a child and do irreparable damage.
After the restaurant we walked over to our child's school fundraiser. While waiting for the light to turn I saw a young woman reading her phone while waiting for the light. When the light changed as she turned I stared her down and mouthed put your phone down.
Yesterday, I also saw a grown woman in a big suburban (probably the most lethal combo in America) driving with one hand and the other hand wrapped tightly around her phone.
I don't write too much about people using their phones because AT&T has done a great job at launching an anti-texting PSA and I'm just like duh, stop using your phones assholes, I mean people.
But clearly something is not connecting.
Observe people the next time you are out walking or a passenger in a car.
It's frightening.
Do we really have such disdain for life that we risk it daily? Where is our empathy? Do we only care about people who die from cancer? Not from car crashes?
Stop touching your phone while you drive.
Stroke yourself if you really want to touch something while driving. It might be safer. I don't know. There probably aren't stats on that. Hold on I have to Google that now.
No, no data on that.
Sick statistics I came across say that 1 out of 4 people fucking surf the internet while driving.
Come on.
A plane crashed yesterday, yes it's awful. It's scary and I feel terrible for all on board. But every day around 110 Americans die in car crashes. Why aren't we horrified?