[CarolineWH]

I just now saw this thread and wanted to answer it. I don't text...Never have...Yet when we purchased our last new car in December of last year, it came with the Blue Tooth deal. To go along with this, we got two new telephones. One for my husband and one for me. These were very expensive phones and I asked the salesman who we work with each time we purchase a new car, if these would text. Personally I know nothing about this but I just wondered....His answer to me was yes they do...BUT, don't do it...I only have a few clients that want to do this and I text with them and know quite a bit about it. He said I discourage people from doing this.....This was the end of that conversation.

Now I type near 100 wpm. Part of the old secretarial skills...BUT, whether you know your finger placement or not, it is your mind that is moving. I do not believe you can concentrate on two things at once...Even with the Blue Tooth, when this has to be turned off I have to look at the steering wheel to figure out where is the telephone in the air or on it's cradle. There is a difference in night and day.

Now I do understand that people will say hey, you are older....But I would also think people would realize that my mind also goes a mile a minute...A conductor on a train in Los Angles, I believe, was texting and he missed the stop sign on the track...He plowed right through the stop sign and into another train...From this mistake, he and 26 other people are dead...Many others were critically injured. Whether you are on a telephone or putting lipstick on, I know I used to do this and probably still do, it, in my opinion, distracts you....BUT saying this the laws will not be changed because it is progress......People do not change and along the line they probably will just suffer and people will die....

To me it is another mini-war of he says, she says...One says it is OK and the other side says no.....I know one thing and that is that one of the most dangerous things nowadays to see is a person with their hand to their ear talking and trying to drive.....Mind off somewhere else and completely unaware of their surroundings.....I guess that is why I like a double lane highway....