[AT] Change - way off topic

[charlie hill]

Ralph a few years back I was going around the "belt line" (expressway) 
around Raleigh NC during morning rush hour in traffic like you might well 
have never seen in SK.  4 lanes in each direction running 75 mph with about 
2 car lengths or less between cars.  In front of me was a 20 something year 
old girl driving an Oldsmobile Cutlass.  All of a sudden she reached over 
and twisted her rear view mirror around toward her face, leaned over into 
the mirror while steering with her knees (I'm assuming) and began using both 
hands to put eye make-up on her eyes.  I could tell by the way she was doing 
it that she did that routine every morning.  I couldn't do anything but 
follow her.  If I had tried to slow down I would have caused a wreck behind 
me.  She never missed a beat.  Within about a mile she had the eye make up 
on, the mirror straightened back up and was back to normal driving.  It was 
about then that I started breathing again.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ralph Goff
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 10:51 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Change - way off topic


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve W." <swilliams268 at frontier.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Change - way off topic


> Now that a lot of states are passing No texting while driving laws, I am
> amazed at people who are downloading apps that allow them to talk to the
> phone which then converts speech to text.
>
> Now if you are going to talk to the phone anyway why not just TALK to
> the person instead?????

TExting while driving?? Is there anyone crazy enough to do that? Its been
proving that we do not multi task nearly as well as we would like to
believe. I'm betting that a lot of motor vehicle accidents nowadays are the
result of someone "multi tasking" with their cell phone. If its not against
the law it sure ought to be.
When I 'm driving on quiet country roads I "might" answer a cell phone call
if I'm expecting an important one. Otherwise it will have to wait. Far as
I'm concerned driving needs 110% of my attention.

Ralph in Sask.

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