Two days ago some fat slob woman in a lifted jeep full of ducks was staring at her phone with her nasty foot on the airvent and she almost hit my right rear when I saw her drift to the left of her lane into mine through my right rear view so i gave it gas and she must've been not even a foot from hitting my bumper. I was carefully watching her drift more not taking my eyes off the road ahead of me and saw her drift into the curb and momentarily lost control and swerved hard to the right almost hitting a car behind her.
Societal addiction to phones
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there will be much neck problem/pain sickness in the future
I live near a city park and it’s shockingly sad to see how many parents bring the kids to the park then walk to a bench or picnic table and are on their phones while the kids entertain themselves! Many just park and let the kids out then get back in the car and then on the phone.
Years ago we had dog catchers, today we need dingbat catchers with a big net.
I rarely use a computer anymore other than at work. On my phone right now, on lunch break.
I once avoided getting rear ended by blasting my horn... at the inattentive guy behind me! And it worked. Since that was back in the day before smartphones, that wasn't the reason. I was stopped at a light in front of a high school and some yahoo has his head turned 90 degrees starring at a high school girl. I'm watching him in my rear-view mirror coming right at me! So I lay on the horn and he slams on the brakes just in time.
At least it wasn't a smart phone. I would have been pissed. I mean if you're going to get rear ended, at least have it done for a worthwhile venture like checking out some hottie.
You'll get a chuckle when you go to "the third world" and everyone's faces, young and old, are buried in their smartphones too.
We are all God's children, lol
So many things these days that you can't do or are harder to do without a smart phones so I have one but it's turned on when I need to use it and turned of when I don't. Zombies staring into a phone is one thing, my particular pet hate though is people using a phone on loudspeaker while on public transport. I find that moronically rude beyond belief.
Unfortunately smartphones encourage inattentiveness. But I've noticed that often it goes beyond just simple distraction. A few years ago I managed to barely avoid a head-on collision with a food delivery driver (ironically, I was doing food delivery as well), and he ended up hitting my Jetta's rear left wheel and spinning me out 180 degrees. Thankfully only scratches on my car, but the other guy's Civic was pretty crumpled and puking coolant. It happened in an intersection. I was going straight and he was coming the other way in the turning lane. He was looking at his phone in the middle of the intersection while trying to make a turn! It blows my mind why someone would think it's a good idea to not look at the road in such a situation.
But that's not anything I can change or do anything about, so I look at the positives. I love that I live during an era where I can basically carry a super computer around with me in my pocket. The times a phone has been a benefit to me in my daily life is countless. Medical emergencies, checking in on senior parents, finding my way with google maps, etc. Plus, I'd argue that cell phones can enrich conversations. I've had tons of family conversations where we're looking up things about the topics we're discussing or checking definitions/translations of words or what have you. Interestingly my parents (mom in her 70s and dad passed away last year at 89) never had negative views about cellphones. They just saw them as useful tools and regularly ask(ed) me if I have my phone on me to look something up they have questions about.
But that's not anything I can change or do anything about, so I look at the positives. I love that I live during an era where I can basically carry a super computer around with me in my pocket. The times a phone has been a benefit to me in my daily life is countless. Medical emergencies, checking in on senior parents, finding my way with google maps, etc. Plus, I'd argue that cell phones can enrich conversations. I've had tons of family conversations where we're looking up things about the topics we're discussing or checking definitions/translations of words or what have you. Interestingly my parents (mom in her 70s and dad passed away last year at 89) never had negative views about cellphones. They just saw them as useful tools and regularly ask(ed) me if I have my phone on me to look something up they have questions about.
When it's not the i-Zombies, it's the ones who seem to think they are so important that they must be in constant contact. I do community theater. During one performance, one fine individual not only ignored the part about silencing her phone, it rang during the performance and she ducked behind the stage to take her call. She had a lot of dirty looks from the cast and our stage manager as she was yapping on her phone until the stage manager firmly told her to leave the building.
That at least ten times worse than someone staring at there phone. Get the dogs behavior corrected like a good public trail user.
He used the word berserk. To me that means untrained but I’m sure it was a heightened word choice
God's children or Steve Jobs's kids?
One time when I went to get a hair cut, the place was a bit crowded, but I was able to find a seat. Guy next to me was buried in his phone, and I started looking at mine. Then the stylist calls out "Brian?" and the guy next to me stands up. I look up and realize that I'd been sitting next to someone from work, and neither of us noticed.
I relayed the story to a friend of mine who's active-duty in the Army and got a mini-lecture on situational awareness...and he wasn't wrong.
About a month ago, a guy on one of those single wheel electric skateboards whizzed by going the opposite way at about 25mph...staring at his phone. Darwin just itching to give him an award!
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It’s really sad that people are so addicted to phones. I often wonder what would happen if you took one of their phones for a day. My dad freaks out anytime he doesn’t have his phone. Once we drove 30 miles to a restaurant he realized he left his phone on the kitchen table so he said everyone back in the car we gotta go back and get my phone I can’t do without it so we had to drive 30 miles back, and then 30 more miles back to the restaurant again. That’s happened a couple times. And trying to talk to anyone but especially him when he is looking at it is like talking to a brick wall. I asked him once I’m like dad what would you do without your phone and he is like I’d be fine. I said I don’t think you will based on how important it seems to be to you.
At work they always tell us to keep our phones on us in case another tech or advisor needs to reach us and we are in a different building or out on a test drive or in the parking lot and not near our computer for Psi which is a messaging system on the computer. So we are all required to have each others numbers in case we need to reach each other.
I always see my coworkers face deep in their phones under cars and stuff I’m like dang can’t you put that thing in your pocket for 5 minutes. Unfortunately some people just live on their phones. Me personally as long as I had a computer and a TV I’d be fine without a smartphone or anything. Even though it’s a bit harder for me to type on the computer but I’d be fine. I do like to have a phone for convenience and texting and games but it’s not so important to me that I walk thru a parking lot or drive looking at it.
At work they always tell us to keep our phones on us in case another tech or advisor needs to reach us and we are in a different building or out on a test drive or in the parking lot and not near our computer for Psi which is a messaging system on the computer. So we are all required to have each others numbers in case we need to reach each other.
I always see my coworkers face deep in their phones under cars and stuff I’m like dang can’t you put that thing in your pocket for 5 minutes. Unfortunately some people just live on their phones. Me personally as long as I had a computer and a TV I’d be fine without a smartphone or anything. Even though it’s a bit harder for me to type on the computer but I’d be fine. I do like to have a phone for convenience and texting and games but it’s not so important to me that I walk thru a parking lot or drive looking at it.
