I Hate Texting

Yesterday evening, a mechanic at my favorite tire/repair shop had his eight month pregnant girl friend coming to pick him up in his brand spanking new "to him" Pontiac Grand Am. Shinny and white. She was sitting at a red light about four blocks from the shop when B-A-M !!!! Here comes a young gal (20 something) and hits her from behind at about 45 mile per hour. Word has it that she was doing about 60 (10 over the speed limit) up until the last second when she looked up from the cell phone where she was texting a message and laid on the brakes! Needless to say, both cars are unrecognizable and the pregnant girlfriend is in the hospital. I'm not sure the status of the texting driver. Just about a year ago, an 18 year old gal drove left of center, hit an elderly couple head on and killed them both. She was texting a message. We hear more and more about young ladies having accidents while texting friends. I work on the campus of a University. You can't walk a block in town without seeing two or three gals texting. On more than one occasion, I've seen females trying to park a car (parallel in the town I'm in) while talking on the cell phone. You talk about a show . . . What is it with girls and phones! I'll tell you. Raising two boys and a girl, I have observed that today's teen and young adult feminine gender is ALL ABOUT relationships, social pecking order and about who is treating who, how. In other words, DRAMA! Maybe it's always been this way with girls, but the texting phenomenon is new (as it texting). It's a tool I believe this society and mankind (especially woman kind) can do without. Messaging in general seems to empower the fems to be even more absorbed in drama and relationships. MySpace, Facebook, Xanga (yea, Xanga's passe', but it's still out there), Google Chat, MySpace Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Instant Messenger - you name it, the gals seem to dominate it. Is it that guys, as a rule, have better things to do? Football, sports in general, cars, hunting (still male dominated). Girls have TV shows and TEXTING. So, maybe it's not all their fault, but I still hate it. I am very anti-government in my life. But you know, I think I'll embrace anti-cell phone while driving laws. Maybe our cars will be better off for it!