Text Messaging. Do you?

[Fozzer]

...whilst driving...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYTXjD_YOPk

Paul.

Public Service Announcement.

[JakesF14]

Paul yeah that is REALLY a dangerous thing! in my opinioan even more dangerous than talking on your cellphone while driving - which is illegal in my country. That clip just reminds one about the dangers!

[specter177]

Not a lot, just when it is more efficient, such as when I'm just sending a short message and don't want a reply and it's not worth calling. Or when talking on the phone would be rude, like in class. 

[Romulus111VADT]

I don't text while driving, sitting, walking, or standing. I can't stand texting and have no use for it. My step-son and his wife have tried to text me and I flat refuse! I tell them to call me and we'll "TALK".

I became an ardent opponent of it when I saw two teenage girls texting walking side by side. I asked them in fun who they were texting and they looked at me like I was stupid and pointed at each other. If they were serious, this is the absolute most asinine thing I've witnessed in 30 years.

[SeanTK]

I don't do it at all. Most people I know do, but I don't see what the difficulty is in speaking to someone over the phone to express a point. It's faster too.

[machineman9]

Usually when walking back into school/college at lunchtimes we point and make a phone sign at them. It's as a bit of joke, and they are usually stopped cars anyway, but they are still on the road in traffic so they deserve to be reminded.

I text whilst being driven. If my parents need a text sending, they will get me to send it if they are behind the wheel.

It is pretty stupid but at the same time it reminds you who your friends are. If they aren't helping to watch the road, telling you to stop texting or not offering to do the text for you then they are also partly to blame.

[JBaymore]

This summer in Japan I saw a teenage girl riding her bike (in traffic) using no hands on the handle bars and texting.   ::)

best,

..................john

[Steve M]

Hands free cell phones while driving are just becoming manditory here this month. It means no texting and no dialing phones behind the wheel. I just got my bluetooth voice dial last week. I even saw a motorcycle helmet with bluetooth. I pictured someone named Paul, chucking it in the garbage can!   :) 

[Hagar]

I think the use of all types of mobile phones while driving should be banned. This includes the hands-free options. Unfortunately I see no way of enforcing it so people will carry on as they are.

I've lost count of the number of pedestrians that bump into me while texting or speaking on their mobile phones. This proves to me that they're completely unaware of their surroundings while walking along the pavement, let alone behind the wheel of a car or truck.

[Romulus111VADT]

My step-son get's so frustrated with me. He provides my cell phone and my wife's. My wife uses hers all the time.

I rarely turn the stupid thing on. I figure if I'm at home, call my home phone. I take the cell phone with me when I go out walking or driving. But again, I rarely ever turn it on unless I need it and so far in 5 years, I've used it maybe two dozen times at best.

I've had two text messages come in within the last few years. I ignored them and deleted them. I called the party that texted me and got this, "Well, why didn't you just answer the text!?" I responded, "I am, by calling you and talking to you."

[C]

Saw someone on the wrong side of the road today, straddling the white line coming the other way. As we got closer, the young lady in the front looked up, adjusted, then carried on texting...

Stupid young lady. Hopefully she'll only end up killing herself.

[Romulus111VADT]

I've lost count of the number of pedestrians that bump into me while texting or speaking on their mobile phones. This proves to me that they're completely unaware of their surroundings while walking along the pavement, let alone behind the wheel of a car or truck.

They had some dizzy teenage girl fall down an open man hole on NY city not long ago. She was texting at the time and never saw the man hole cover off the hole and laying beside it.

Never saw a what, 3 foot in diameter cast iron, 100 lb. manhole cover and a 3 foot hole in the ground.....

So now the parents are suing the public works because the sewer was "disgusting" and falling into it has traumatized their moronic daughter.

[Hagar]

Stupid young lady. Hopefully she'll only end up killing herself.

Unfortunately it doesn't usually work out like that. She could end up killing a whole family while getting away without a scratch. Stupid, thoughtless little cow!

[ozzy72]

Cut their thumbs off... that'll teach 'em

[SubZer0]

I have unlimited texting on my mobile plan



However, I don't take it to the point that I text the person standing right next to me... WTF is language for?