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Texting While driving.

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I know this isn't ranch stuff, but in away it is. I don't know how many of you text on your phone while driving, but watching Extreme Home Make Over tonight just touch me hard. I have done it many of times and about hit someone or ran off the road. Tonight show you all need to see.
 
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Texting while keeping the alley full
 
Know a guy who was almost killed because of someone texting and driving.
Other driver didn't see him stopped to wait for the car in front of him to make a left turn.
 
We are watching Home Makeover and I know exactly what you mean Trinity Man. What a beautiful girl with the world ahead of her and such a tragic loss. I was in the big city last week and saw multiple folks texting while driving. After watching this show tonight, I commit to never text while driving again. And I don't hardly ever. It was hard to see her room with the FFA plaques and rodeo numbers on the wall. :cry:
 
Maybe if I grew up doing it but I am just not capable of doing both. I either need a driver or have to pull over. Now the headset and a phone call I can do. The roads are quite busy here and mostly just driving is work enough.
 
This family is about an hour and a half south of where I grew up. Though I never really knew her personally, I had talked to Alex a couple of times at various FFA events. Although her life was cut short, we can all prevent it from happening to others by not texting while behind the wheel of any vehicle.

God Bless,
Travis B.
 
Here's a link to the page where ya'll can pledge not to text and drive.

http://abc.go.com/shows/extreme-makeover-home-edition/rab-pledge

Travis B. If you ever run into Alex's family give them our love from Utah and let em' know they have made a difference!
 
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Maybe if I grew up doing it but I am just not capable of doing both. I either need a driver or have to pull over. Now the headset and a phone call I can do. The roads are quite busy here and mostly just driving is work enough.
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Well really,NO one is capable of doing it. We have had two accidents that resulted from kids texting while driving close by here in the past 6 months. In the one, the kid rear ended an Amish family in a horse and buggy and set them all to hospital with critical to serious injuries but no one died. Just smashed those Amish people all up - awful. The kid almost went crazy for what he did, after the fact.

My brother was the first on the scene after it happened and it was not a pretty sight seeing those bodies scattered all over the road. The horse was killed. Poor little kids . . .

In the other, the kid crossed the center line and hit a local couple head on, killing the guy in the car he hit and seriously injured his wife.

It"s just not worth it folks. Better off to pitch the phone out the window than kill or maim someone else.
 
Will do leanin H. Their program with the pickup on the trailer that they go to high schools with is pretty neat. They went to my high school and although I was in college, I still went and watched it. I know they've made a difference in my life and I hope they can do the same for many more.

Travis B.
 
This reason I started this is because Friday night coming home I did go off the road and all most into a creek while texting a friend. I had a major problem about texting because my phone want always get a signal to talk, but will get one to text. Now that want be a problem. I will stop and text even if it takes me 3 hours to go 30 minutes of driving. I can see how anyone would do it in the mountains area. Thats a long drop. :shock: I feel for this family and will tell my friends not to do it.
 
About a year ago, a great farm kid, a senior, was making a parts run for his dad. Texting on the way home drifted head-on into a semi. Know the truck driver, and he real had a hard time dealing with the boys death, but at least he survived. Quit driving. Must have been almost two years, because the driver didn't work even for several months, and not because he is lazy. He has been able to get a job again, now.
 
I did it too when I got my first texting plan. Now, I still will reach for my phone before I realize it and I haven't texted will driving since last summer after those accidents happened.

It is so easy and compulsive . . .

Another thing that is common now is to see people texting while they are at a red light. When in the city recently, I looked at the other cars that were waiting for the light to turn green and a LOT of the drivers were sitting with their heads bent down, punching away at their cell phones.

So I fought off the almost-overwhelming urge to lay on my horn long and loud just to see how many of them would let go of the brake and slam down the gas pedal because they thought the light had turned green and they were holding up traffic . . . :twisted:
 
We sat and watched this program last night, wife I and our 14 yr old daughter, youngest of 3 and compulsive texter. We have talked with all of them about distracted driving etc, at length but like FH says they feel they're invincable. For the first time I really think the message hit home with her, she now wants to sign a no text contract. Seeing the whole story laid out for her seemed to make a big impact.
 
The Lord made me clumsy enough that I can barely text sitting in a chair. I do like a qwerty keyboard on my cell phone. I inherit the kids lol. I usually drive to all the rodeos-it's a hard habit to break amongst young people.
 

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