Drive Now, Talk Later

" -- one core idiot belief is that they're all born with the ability to drive like Emerson Fittipaldi. "

It could be worse, they could think they drive like Shumaker trying to make his flight in a cab.

The only two accidents I was ever in as a driver were caused by the other driver being on the phone.

In both cases, the cop had to repeatedly tell the other driver to get off the phone during the investigation questioning.

In one case, the cellphoniac passed me on the right on the shoulder while I was signaling and starting to make a right turn. The driver behind me was turning left, and she passed both cars on the right shoulder.

Sometimes I wonder if they downloaded their brains into their phones, and then deleted the originals.

In the other case, the celladdict turned left from the middle lane of a one-way street (an illegal move) because she saw the restaurant she wanted to go to on a side street. I was in the left lane, going straight (a legal move).