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Texting Teens Ravaging Interstates
Like, ohmigod! So, yesterday, the Inquirer, like, totally ran a story about how me and my friends text while driving. How ridic, right? The only thing is, it was all about how we shouldn’t be texting each other while we’re driving, and, like, how dangerous it is? Only me and Courtney never got in any accidents! Why are they allowed to print stuff like that? They even talked to some dude at a college? Like, a professor or something? And they said he was a “texting expert”! Only, he was kind of on our side! He said, like, it’s unfair to take away our texting while we’re driving because we do it so much! He went something like, “Asking students to be without one of their primary forms of communication while en route in cars is asking too much of them.” But, then, like, the writer? Went something like, “Maybe, but shouldn’t someone at least be telling them that it’s not the safest way to conduct a life?” Like, ohmigod, let me live my life, you know what I’m sayin’? Like, I can text while driving, I know all the words I need to hit in T9! And then, they talked to some other guy, right? And he said that it was kids on the Main Line who did it the most! Why do they always have to blame the Main Line kids? I mean, it’s not like the blow they do in Bloomsdale is any different than the blow we do here! Like, ohmigod! Oh, by the way, can you hook me up, I’m all out? Oh, great! Yea, whatever! Because I mean, like, totally, full out! And I’m, like, totally getting tired of writing this way, but I don’t want to give up the (awful) joke now! There are still more quotes to, like, make fun of! And, like, the writer, like, talked to this girl, who said she texts and hasn’t gotten in any accidents! And she said: “We’re just a fast-paced generation. I can eat a McDonald’s meal in 30 seconds. I text while I drive to make plans with friends, or to tell my friends about someone I met the night before, or to occupy my mind if nothing good is on the radio. I can’t help but respond right away if I get a text. I don’t like waiting. The world today is going fast.” Like, right? I mean, just yesterday I was in an eating contest and I ate a whole McDonald’s meal in 25 seconds! Ohmigod! Oh, hold on, I have another call.—click—Yeah, of course I want to go see Fall Out Boy, Brandon! I gotta go, alright!—click—But then some “expert” said that if we even talk on the phone while driving we could crash! But what if there’s somebody in the seat next to us? I’m, like, not going to, like, not talk! He even said we could get charged with a “serious offense” if we cause a crash! Oh, you gotta go? Alright. Like, I’ll text you about it later! Behind the wheel, teens typing away [Inquirer] |
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OMG ;-)
hello.
i was actually interviewed for that article, i felt the need to respond to your sarcasm, which i actually believe is funny im not gonna lie. but i dont text while driving, and sadly the interviewer twisted our words to make his story, which my friends and i did not think would happen. i completely agree that it is dangerous to use the phone at all while driving and i dont, but the article eludes to the fact that my friends and i are stupid little main line brats that are reckless, which i know is not true. but in the end, the thing i learned out of me being naive is that: journalists cannot be trusted. i dont regret talking to the man, but i just wish i had watched what i had said, and at least i dont care what people think of me because i have been getting some degrading comments from the article, but i know that i am a safe driver and i would not do anything to jeopardize others or myself on the road including texting while driving.
I was interviewed too. The reporter completely minipulated the conversation. The first thing i said to him was “NO, i dont text and drive” and did that make it into the article? no. Im actually really upset by the whole article. he made me look like a complete idiot but twisting everything we said. he also failed to tell us that the article focused just on texting and driving. He made it seem like the article was on just texting and asked us several other questions about texting…all of which never made it into the article.
So all the people who are upset by the article should know that the majority of it is not true,at least for me. I never text while driving and made it point to tell him that many times. I also find it funny that the reporter said the article would be in the paper on a weds. and to my dismay found it in the sunday paper. I am really upset by the whole thing and writting a letter to the paper whihc hopefully will be published
I’m sorry, is there not a war going on in Iraq right now? Like, ohmygod, whatever! Let’s just blatantly belittle poor teenagers who were just like being like manipulated by the like newspaper!
Greetings… mcgettigan here– it sounds like some teens are trying to climb down from their lofty perch. What’s missing is any denial on the quotes–the Inquirer reporter quoted kids saying, “I text and drive” — translation–”I rule, and if I maim or kill a pedestrian, or a cyclist, or my friend in the passenger seat, who cares, ’cause I’m number one.”
Interestingly, the school these little darlings hail from prohibits cell phones from even being activated on the school grounds. Of course, the school code also calls for students to respect and be Christian in their behavior to others–which probably doesn’t allow crushing someone under the oil pan of your car so you could text, “meet me @ th mall OK?”
Frankly, the whole bunch could use a long walk, it sound like. Might build some character.
–mcget