Texting Discipline

(From the Huffington Post)

My personal rules for texting-while-driving:

Never respond to text messages.

Wait to glance at texts (or maps) until stopped at a red light.

Limit downward gaze to two seconds at most.

Your humble observer is not without sin in this area, obviously, so he's tolerant of the increasing number of drivers who are a little slow to move when the light turns green.

Yesterday, however, traffic in the adjacent lanes began whizzing by while the car in front didn't budge. I leaned on the horn and immediately regretted giving in to an angry impulse.

Your observer had been having a bad day, but that's no excuse. He needs more discipline, and, frankly, a lot of other drivers need it, too. © 2014 Stephen Yuen