The Distraction
Tracy just finished her SATs and decided to celebrate with a little lunch with two friends. After the girls placed their order at the drive thru window, Tracy pulled up, and took out her phone.
Let’s see, Mom, Dad, baby sis Janie, brothers James and Jeff and Tim just have to find out.
One by one, she texted them the good news that she was finished and felt good about the exam.
She had two more messages left when Denise in the passenger seat yelled, “Trace!”
The scream startled Tracy and for a split second she lifted her foot from the brake. Without realizing it, she had been drifting forward inch by inch for two minutes until her father’s BMW bumper crunched the Lexus bumper in front of her.
Tracy froze and her eyes darted side to side.
Maybe nobody even noticed.
Nobody except for the Lexus driver opening his car door.
Uh-oh! Now, if only she'd used group-messaging for her news to begin with . . .
Texting and driving is definitely a hazard. If I need to take a call or text I pull over on the highway or I pull into a parking lot. Works like a charm. I miss those days when you would sit next to your dial phone and visit. I'm not even old! And I want to go back to those days. The technology today is insane! It's complicated when you're an ER nurse. There are all the EMR data that you have to collect every day on each patient plus you still have to keep a paper copy just in case your servers go down. Double work for me. did I mention Texting and driving is a big No?