to the lady in the parking lot at burger king today:

[acroyear]

Bitch, if you want to fucking kill me, do it by looking at me straight in the eye and slamming my car head-on, rather than obliviously running a stop sign 'cause you were blabbing on the fucking cell phone!!!!!

i've never wanted VA to have a hands-free law more than that moment.

and yes, i was in my car, WITH HEADLIGHTS ON!  She simply never looked my way at all, but only straight ahead to the end of the drive-thru line, like there was nobody else on the planet (except who she was talking to).

Comments

[celtink.livejournal.com]

Ok as someone who had a guy literally trying to run me off the road for over a 5 mile stretch of road this morning, I think I win on the near-death auto experience.
If I have a chance I will post about it on my LJ. It was not pretty.

I do hear you on the asshats with cells though. They act like they're at home on the couch talking as opposed to being behind the wheel. I've had my near-hits with those types as well.

[thelongshot.livejournal.com]

I don't think a hands free law would have made a difference in this case. There isn't anything preventing you from looking around while holding a cell, just the obliviousness of ignoring the outside world when talking to other people.

This is why I try to keep conversations brief when I'm on a cell while driving, hands free or not.

[thewhitedragon.livejournal.com]

forget hands-free - I am still hoping to see a law against the use of >any< cell phone, HF or not, while driving. If you need to take that call, pull your ass off the road and do it.

[cozit.livejournal.com]

How's your car? And how are you? (Hope "ok" at least)

I think it's just stupidity... The moron who pulled through a stop sign *from* a stop in front of me today (I had right-of-way on the street) didn't even have a cell phone as an excuse... and was looking *straight* at me... and no, I had no signal on because I was going straight.

Thankfully there was a bit of space in time between the car coming towards me and my need of that side of the road.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

oh i didn't get touched as i saw her ignore me the whole time. she never knew i was there even as she passed me to get into the drive-thru line. total tunnel vision.