So my poor husband had to have three teeth pulled today - all molars. Yee-ouch! The first few hours right after were miserable but he is doing much better now. Yay! Hopefully tomorrow won't sneak up on him and smack him in the mouth.
As his dutiful and loving (and rather awesome, if I do say so myself) wife, I took him to and from the dentist, then left to go have his scripts filled. Now I have a very short, actually non-existent fuse for people who text and drive. I've had a lady run a red light and just by a hair miss hitting my daughter and I, a guy would have hit me head on had I not blown my horn and he over corrected and skidded off the road. Cannot count to the nth degree how many times I've been behind someone who goes from 50 to 25 to 60 to 15 MPH in a matter of one mile because they're busy twiddling their phone. It can wait people. Seriously. But lawmakers have put in place misdemeanor statutes for those who are ticketed by the police for being physically unable to remove their hand from their phone while driving. I am thankful to the police officers who go out everyday, put their lives at risk to keep my family and I safe.
However, my respect for those who uphold the law plummets when they are the ones busy twiddling their phones and almost hit me head on, such as in today whilst being a stellar wife en route to the pharmacy for my pain ridden husband. How did I know it was a police officer you ask? I got a real good look at his uniform in his marked vehicle when it was crossing over the center line coming directly at me while he was texting or tweeting or posting, really don't care, on his phone. I honked my horn and laid on the brakes. Had I not, he would have smashed into my front end.
So how do you ticket a cop for texting on his phone while driving in his marked unit in uniform? Sadly, not the first that I have seen. I am no perfect angel. I do stupid things. But I do turn on that nifty little thing every phone has, driving mode. You text me while I am driving, you get an auto response. When I get to my destination, then I respond. If there are people in your life who cannot wait that extra 5-10 minutes for you to safely respond, need to rethink who it is you are responding to and the importance of it all. Just saying.
I still hold a high level of respect for EMT's, officers, firefighters and civil servants of all kinds. That respect, however, wanes considerably when you are doing the very thing you have no problem ticketing others for doing, yet come very close to hitting someone head on for doing that very thing you are supposed to thwart. Do as I say and not as I do might have worked when I was a wee lass but it sure doesn't float now.
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