I’m driving to pick up my babysitter Saturday morning and while I’m stopped at a stop-light I glance to my left and what do I see? A woman driving in a car FULL of kids texting while driving. I could not believe what I was seeing. How can someone be so stupid to endanger the lives of their loved ones as well as the people around them because they have to send a quirky little message to a friend first thing in the morning. Isn’t there some kind of ban against cell phone use while driving? Aren’t they pushing for one? I have a cell phone and I never drive while using it. If someone calls while I’m driving, I let voicemail get it. That’s what voicemail is for isn’t it? If Jeff is in the car with me, he answers it for me if I think it’s important. And if it’s just me and I do think it’s important, I pull over on the next side road. I don’t understand why it’s so important to drive around with that phone permanently attached to your head. Everyone I’ve talked to has told me stories about friends of theirs talking on the phone while driving and I can’t believe they’re still alive. One story I heard was of a girl texting, smoking, having a conversation with friends in the backseat and adjusting her lip gloss. How is that possible you ask yourself? The passenger in the front was controlling the steering wheel. Look around you when you’re driving, count how many people are out there with cellphones out either dialing, texting or talking. It’s shocking. It’s scary.
And another thing. I know many people who do drugs, I say it’s their choice. BUT when it comes to people who are pregnant and do drugs, that’s just plain fucking stupid. I know of one particular person who did drugs while preggers (so did the father) and her belly never got bigger. When she had the baby he was only 5 lbs and was super short. He was smaller than the length of his father’s forearm. They have 3 kids together and 2 of them had to suffer in their mother’s stomach while she pushed drugs into their systems. That right there is just as bad (in my eyes) as being a pedophile. They act like there is nothing wrong with what they’re doing. They keep doing drugs and keep pumping out kids…Fucking crack heads. Methadone addicts. You can’t get much lower than that. I wonder if they ever sat back and thought about the consequences and the effects it’s going to have on the kids as they grow up. Low weight at birth, Early delivery or miscarriage, growth and development may be slow, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) or Fetal Alcohol Effect (FAE), mental retardation, heart problems, defects of the face and body and in some cases, death. I’m too frustrated to go on about this topic, so I’ll just leave it at this for now.
