Me too.
Oh hell fucking no. I love it. Who am I kidding? I can almost hear that “deflating balloon sound” or maybe its that “screeching record needle being drug across the record sound”.
Maybe I should invite his brother over to our place this thanksgiving so he has somewhere to go though.
Cite?
I actually agree with you, although I do not think that having used a cell phone once while driving is quite the smoking gun people think it is.
I don’t really get how I’ve supposedly been “burned.” I said talking on a cell while driving was irresponsible. I didn’t say I’d never done it.
It was the Vikings again. My Achilles heel. One of these days I’ll figure out it’s just a game.
Do any of you people live up to your own standards?
Hey, Dio, this one’s for you.
I tell myself that every August.
It’s a discourse problem. People don’t have to be people on the Interwebs, and they don’t have to treat other people as people. They can be indignant blowhards and treat anyone who disagrees with them like no-account losers. There’s no accountability because nobody knows who you are. You can make any outrageous claim you want – who’s going to call you on it? I begin to think the point of participating isn’t even to talk about x, and definitely not fight ignorance. It’s to blow off steam. The way some people use the road to be assholes, other people use a discussion board. At least nobody gets hurt.
It’s amusing to think that any two people might actually be brothers. Or colleagues. Or neighbors. They have a pleasant exchange then go inside and call each other names. Good premise for a book, maybe.
I am prettty damn sure nobody here that thinks Dio is a tool thinks they can live up to impossible standards like the perfection of never forgetting anything. Nor do they expect anybody else too.
HAAAAAAAAAAA!!! One of my favorite sound effects.
Yeah, sounds like a great book for FAGS!
How’s your wife doing? Getting close now, huh?
Still about ten weeks to go. And we have not forgotten him in the car.
It’s interesting that you mention that because the way Lyn Balfour came across in print reminded me of you. I don’t believe that there are many shades of grey in Ms. Balfour’s world. Also, it seemed her message was more important to her than being liked. I absolutely didn’t get the idea that she was in denial about what happened; rather, I thought that she was on a crusade to prevent such a thing from happening again.
Weingarten was making the point that people should have these checks in place (as you do, already) because our brains sometimes short in weird ways. Some of the preventative suggestions (stuffed animal in the car sear, briefcase or purse in back with the kid) were very basic, but could be powerful habits. You may not need them, having safeties in place already. Some folks have adopted them and found them helpful. One reader wrote into a later Weingarten chat and said that s/he’d helped prevent a kid being left in a car because of reading the article.
I’d suspect more people have been injured or killed because some jackass has been talking on a cell phone while driving than babies have been boiled in the back seat.
And not only that, babies being boiled is a result of someone UNWILLFULLY FORGETTING something.
Folks getting killed by cell phone yakers is a result of someone WILLFULLY doing something DANGEROUS. And in your case its not even something remotely fucking important. A fucking sports game you can find out about when you get home. Basically fucking testosterone laden worthless, useless, totally unfucking important little old lady GOSSIP that doesnt mean shit.
Sigh.
Keith Brooking has his own children’s foundation. I bet he’d never forget a kid in a car … not even for a second.
My God, you’re right!
That’s awesome.
That would be even awesomer.
Maybe it was this:
So he makes the assertion that those kind of people who’ve left their kids in the car are self-absorbed, distracted people; you know, the kind who talk on the phone while driving. And yeah, ok, he does that - but only once in a while! And only briefly! and he doesn’t MAKE calls while he’s driving. Except that once. That you had to remind him of. Because he forgot about it. And he made the call ‘cause the Vikings’ game was important enough to risk talking on the phone while driving. But he’s not at all like those irresponsible people who talk on the phone while driving and are forgetful! They are criminally negligent.
And Dio, frankly, if you’d made that post that I pulled the quote from (where you say that you are a self-acknowledged space cadet and therefore double check every time) at the beginning of the thread I don’t think this discussion would have gone as far and as harshly as it has, because that’s the same thing people have been saying all along. You started off with “Nope, never, it could never happen to me” full stop, without a word of explanation as to WHY it could never happen to you. The truth is that you DO acknowledge it could happen to you and that’s why you double check.
Now wait just a goddamn minute. NFL football, useless? Unimportant? Worthless?
Or did you mean soccer? Lord knows there’s plenty of threads about that going on for some weird reason…
This may officially be the funniest thing I’ve ever read on the SDMB in over ten years. Congratulations.