photo credit: Andrew Feinberg
These people could depend on you for their safety!
Looks like Linda (my partner in this Simple And Balanced Life project) has touched a very necessary issue here. People, please take a look at your driving habits. You have lives in your hands as soon as you get in the car and drive. They are your responsibility! Think about that.
Out shopping this last week I decided to watch some cars as they were driving down a very busy road near my house. What a shock I had. In a large van there was a lady with three children in the back and a dog in the front. One of the children was standing on the back seat therefore not in a seat belt. The lady driver was talking on the phone holding it in her right hand and she was making a turn at a busy intersection. She is a living time bomb; a disaster waiting to happen. If an accident should happen who will we blame?
A few minutes later I saw a man on a bicycle with a child carrier on the back. Again, he was on the phone and right out in the traffic. I can tell you now that Toronto is no place to be out in the middle of a road, during rush hour, on a bicycle with a child on the back, talking on the phone.
While I was in the grocery store, a lady was shopping at the same time as me and the whole time that she was going through the store, she was on the phone, completely oblivious to anything that was going on around her.
I have friends and family the same as everyone, but, for the life of me, I can’t see how important it is to talk to them constantly while I am trying to go about my business. What are they talking about for such long periods of time?
What are people afraid of? Is it that they are afraid to be on their own and must be in contact at all times? I have heard it said that before you can live with someone, you must first learn to live with yourself. I am not quite sure how that statement applies here, but for some reason it seems appropriate.
The Canadian Mental Health Association has authorized phone texting as an addiction requiring treatment. What on earth are we doing?
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=3385670
http://www.news8.net/news/stories/0308/506422.html
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