Texting and Driving?

The other day while driving I was changing the music on my phone, which is attached to a dashboard mount on my car, making it street legal. As I reached to change the song for a split second, the middle-aged man on the road next to me shook his head and made a gesture at me that I was doing something wrong. This frustrates me completely because the finger is always being pointed at teens for texting and phone usage while driving, when in my experience it is not always that way. That same day as I was driving, I saw 6 people around 30 or 40 blatantly talking on their cell phones, with them held up to their ears and everything. I’ve been educated VERY thoroughly by my superiors not to use my phone while driving, and it seems that they are not following their own directions. I would say about 70% of the people I encounter driving like idiots are middle aged Caucasian people talking or texting on their phones, acting like they own the damn road.

My grandmother, a member of the city council and President of multiple HOA’s, is always running errands and on important phone calls, even in the car. She refuses to buy a Bluetooth headset because she “doesn’t like how it feels” and uses driving as an opportunity to make her important phone calls. Her entitlement and perceived right to break the law comes from the fact that she “has been driving longer than those ‘reckless teenagers’ just starting to drive”. It does not matter how long you have been driving or even how old you are, distractions are distractions and they put you in danger regardless. I am fed up with having the finger pointed at my generation, when everyone is at fault.