"you should watch where you're walking!"

[zoom-zoom]

Yesterday, I almost got "crashed" by a woman in the grocery store, wheeling her cart, while talking on the phone. She continued to talk on the phone through more than half of her time there, so I just glared at her every time she passed me in the aisle. I only held my tongue because her teenaged son was with her. It was late afternoon and the store was crowded.
Zoom-Zoom, my DH drives a big, luxury SUV. I think he would have laughed at the penis extender idea.
He doesn't drive and talk, though.

Ha...I think it's that cell-phone thing that separates the drivers from the "Mr. Importants." All too often I get the feeling that the bigger the vehicle, the less a person thinks they need to be careful. As if they feel that the smaller guys need to just get out of their way. There seems to be a false sense of safety with SUVs for a lot of people. I know one of my best friends has admitted that she has to remind herself that 4WD doesn't mean she is immune to bad roads and that her vehicle really isn't safer than smaller ones (and she requires more distance to stop and is at greater risk of roll-over), but she sometimes doesn't drive as defensively as she did when she drove a smaller car.

The grocery gabber--ugh, they annoy me. Never fails that when I am trying to get in-and-out quick that I get stuck in aisles with several of these. And they are always completely oblivious to the other shoppers around them.

[OakLeaf]

Unfortunately, it's not just the big SUVs any more.

I've seen people riding motorcycles talking on the phone.

I ride with a guy who will sometimes take phone calls in a paceline (not a tight or extremely hard paceline, but still).

Part of it is "Mr. Important," certainly, but I think most of it is the culture that lets people believe that they don't need to pay attention when they're on the road. Honestly I see more women (and girls) than men and boys talking on the phone while driving.

I mean, just start the topic on this very forum of wearing an iPod while running or riding...