Bullitt’s middle name is “sh”.
And you told me not to drive
But I made it home alive
So you said that only proves that I’m insane
So Bullitt puts a bullet into the revolver, spins the cylinder, points the barrel at my head and pulls the trigger and this time nothing happens. What should my reaction be?
- No big deal, because nothing happened.
- Great job multitasking!
- Are you fucking insane, asshole?
That depends: Did he feel comfortable doing it?
I’m sure under certain conditions it’s perfectly safe to point a loaded revolver at someone and pull the trigger.
Did you mean to say “someone else other than myself…”? 
Don’t fight the hypothetical.
Terrific. That’s EXACTLY what the asshole truck driver thought, just before he ran into the back of my car, totalling it.
“I’m safe, I do this all the time, I didn’t think this would ever happen to me.”
This came spilling out of his asshole mouth after I pulled off and made sure that my family was not injured.
Stupid fucking texting assholes who think there is a right “occasion” and “location”. Dangerous assholes who should be taken off the road.
Do you get a sense of where I stand on your statement?
Capitalism encourages sociopathy.
Capitalism encourages sociopathy.
There is a right occasion and location, IMHO - stopped at traffic lights. It’s a bit hard to crash into things when you’re not moving.
Having said that, texting and driving is illegal throughout Australia, even at traffic lights. I disagree with that aspect of the law but I still pull over to attend to text messages all the same.
Disagree. This is what asshole truck driver above thought. (although we were stopped at a construction zone). When traffic started moving again, asshole trucker was engrossed in his text, then vaguely saw traffic was moving, gunned it, and ran smack into me.
So no. Your attention should be on the road, the conditions, other traffic and generally WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE OUTSIDE WORLD, even when you’re not moving. So when you start moving, YOU HAVE A FUCKING CLUE. Otherwise, you’ll be like the asshole truck driver.
“Oh, I’m safe, it’ll never happen to me. I pay attention”. All things that the asshole truck driver said.
I’m not condoning getting into a really involved text or updating Facebook or whatever, but if you’re on a route you drive regularly and know that the traffic light phases are a good 30 seconds plus, I really don’t see any safety issue whatsoever with someone sitting at the traffic lights texting something like “OK” or “Driving” or whatever.
IF you are not moving, maybe. Do you put your car in park while doing this?
Just about every day on my commute, I see, as soon as we come to a stop at a stoplight, heads in most of the cars around me look down at their phones. Not infrequently, they begin to drift forward towards or into the intersection.
Just last week, I was next to some idiot waiting for the light when they started drifting out into the intersection. They made it out far enough that they were blocking traffic going across, and didn’t even notice until people started honking at them.
bolding mine.
So you’ve never had to honk at a texter in front of you at a stoplight that goes from red to green?
Also, mentioning regularly-driven routes (such as, within half a mile of your home, for instance) - isn’t that where most accidents occur anyway?
And again, this has been heard from many drivers post-accident. They all think they are the ones that can multitask safely.
Now convince me through words alone(because that is the only means you have here) that you are different from all the others.
Every person who says they only text for a few seconds is, in fact, texting for ten seconds. If you text while driving you are looking at your phone longer than you think you are. This is true one hundred percent of the time. You, reading this, right now, think you only glance at it for two seconds? It’s five. Or more. I’m wrong? Nope, you’re wrong.
Five seconds is enough to lose control of your car and literally crash it through someone’s yard, into their house and kill a person in their own goddamn living room, something that, by the way, actually does happen.
If you text while driving you are a fool. Put the damn phone away.
If you are asking yourself if you can safely talk or text while you are behind the wheel and in traffic, then you have gone beyond the possibility that you have picked the wrong answer-You are asking a question that you should never have brought up in the first place.
I honestly used to think that as well.
Now I know that taking your attention off of your surroundings, even for “a little bit”, is a very poor idea when you are in control of a powerful machine capable of killing people.
You’re either texting or you’re not. It’s binary. A police officer can’t follow you around and determine that you’re texting at just the proper rate. You either are or you are not.
It’s like saying “don’t worry honey, I’ll just put the tip in”. You’re either fucking or you’re not.