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This cartoon is timely for us — on our way home from the land Saturday evening Andy had to brake for two deer ambling nonchalantly across the road. They weren’t concerned about us at all.
So far we haven’t needed to brake for texting pedestrians or had trouble with texting drivers, but a few drivers talking on their cell phones have made me nervous. What about you?
May 25, 2016
I will not talk on the phone with someone who is driving. I say, “Call me when you are parked,” and I hang up. After I did that to her once, Dave’s sister quickly learned to tell me when her husband was driving when she called from the car.
Good for you!
I know texters come in all age groups.
but living in a university town we have an inordinate amount of them.
you can always tell when they’re doing it. they slow down then speed up then slow down … they’re NOT driving.
you can only hope you’re not in front of one. they will hit you from behind.
it makes driving among them irritating if not downright dangerous.
I LOVE that the deer were nonchalant!!! after all they’re at home! 🙂
Yes, it would be so easy to get rear-ended. They clearly need self-driving cars!
We too liked the fact that the deer felt so safe. 🙂
I get nervous seeing many two wheeler riders and car drivers talking on the mobile phone while driving as well as pedestrians either texting or talking on the phones totally oblivious to their environment. I also find it amusing that in a group people spend more time on their individual phones than with each other say in places like restaurants.
People sure are hooked on their phones!
I believe it a punishable traffic offence in the UK if you are caught gassing into your mobile whilst driving. Other than those legal repercussions it’s plain stupid.
As to deer. Oh dear. And please forgive me if I have mentioned this before, repeating myself. My brother, he must have been about the Angel’s age now, possibly younger, drove his pride and joy – middle of the night – down the Mosel (river) – at high speed since there was no traffic. And what do you know. Two deers later his car was a write off. Unlike the dead deer he wasn’t hurt though – no doubt – it pained him to find bits of hooves and stuff in the engine.
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Thank you for the great story. Hopefully he learned his lesson and was no longer a menace to deer.
Andy says he was lucky they were deer and not elk.
It’s illegal in Illinois to talk or text on your phone.
Unless you have hands-free in your car.
(I have it in mine but haven’t hooked it up)
but just across the river where I work (in Iowa)
you can talk on your phone but not text.
Every once in a while I’ll see someone texting but thankfully not too often.
But I must say, over here in Illinois, deer are everywhere.
Apparently it’s dangerous to even use hands-free phones because it distracts the driver. It seems to me texting would be the worst because you have to take your eyes off the road.
against the law here to text/speak with your i-phone in your vehicle, but every day you see at least one!
you will remember the day I saved a young woman/texting in my street – and she at first thought I was ?attacking her, then she realised why and “thanked me”
sensible people here have a bluetooth ear/car device…
I remember you telling us about that woman. She was the kind of people the deer in the cartoon were talking about!