Texting While Shopping

For over 200 years, we lived in this country without cell phones, how were we able to do that?  What made it possible to survive without those trendy little devices with 10,000 apps loaded on them, making it possible to do over 100,000 different things—-including phone calls.  We surely must have been haplessly wandering through the wilderness of life without a clue for over 200 years!

There have been recent studies and reports that have confirmed that texting while driving is dangerous and the potential consequences of such an act. Yet, on any given day you can take a trip on the interstate and see numerous drivers engaged in texting while driving.  It is obvious that there will be stricter laws coming and people will bitch about them, claiming that it will impinge their freedom.

Now, consider this, yesterday while shopping at my favorite discount store (the one where there are smiling faces everywhere), I was nearly run over not once but twice by individuals who were texting while pushing their carts.  In both cases, I went completely unnoticed until I cleared my throat.

It really is pitiful that I am not safe from texters even when I am a customer!  Maybe these corporate owned stores can make their shopping areas no cell phone zones.  Oh, the humanity, the thought of not being to use the device that keeps you alive for one hour!  I am afraid that would cause wide-spread panic and depression!

Is it not enough that customer service is nonexistent but now I must worry about my very life while perusing the cereal aisle.  Will this give birth to the age of traffic signals on the store aisles?  Won’t matter, texters will drive right through the red light anyway.

Recent reports in the media have indicated that an attack on our power and communications grid would be devastating.  I have no doubt of the legitimacy of these reports as I have witnessed that life without cell phones is impossible.  The loss of cell phones would set us back to the old days when we didn’t have them—–unthinkable!

Talk to Ya Later!

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