Saturday, April 18, 2009

Pet Peeve #1

I'm usually a pretty easy-going, laid-back kinda guy. There aren't too many things that really get under my skin. I do have a few things that irritate me from time to time, though, and here's one of them...

Aaron's pet peeve #1 = Cell Phone Drivers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm sure you've seen this before - you get behind someone driving on the highway going very slow, or maybe they come barrelling down the road right behind you going way too fast. What are these drivers doing? Talking on their cell phone, of course!
I've seen odder behavior from drivers of course- I've seen people reading, shaving, eating, paying too much attention chatting with passengers next to and behind them, putting on makeup, etc., but cell phone drivers have got to be the most consistent distracted drivers that I've seen on the road lately. (Note: I could include people who forget to use turn signals, put their lights on in cloudy or inclement weather here too, but that's a category for another day.)
Driving requires enough concentration without adding the concentration of listening to a phone call to it, so to all of you cell phone drivers out there - hang up & drive already!!! (Sometimes I feel like I should get a sign or bumper sticker with this motto on it!) Sigh - at least there's a law in MN against texting while driving - now if we could just get this extended to cell phone drivers, like the laws in other states...
Okay, I feel much better now that I've gotten to rant - take it easy everyone, and enjoy this nice spring weather!

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