Seeing almost, could've, would've, should've car accidents with people chatting away on cell phones while they are driving is common.
Here in Tucson a bad driver is one of two things. A mom on a cell phone driving a Hummer conducting very important playdates while navigating city streets or a 95 year old who moved here when their doctor told him the weather was good for their arthritic knees. That doctor failed to tell the senior citizen that the sidewalk gets so hot here, it melts the end of your walking cane and the soles of your orthopedic shoes. You have to walk extremely fast if you don't want to resemble that part in Indiana Jones when the guys face melts. Old people don't walk fast. Old people don't drive fast. Old people don't carry cell phones. How are they going to call for help when they melt from the waist down at the corner of 5th and Broadway?
Even more annoying is this scenario : You are shopping for something and enjoying the peace and quiet of roaming the aisles of TJ Maxx without your children. You barely made it there alive because a mom driving a giant, yellow H2 turned in front of you as you pulled into the plaza and you had to speed up to avoid a crash. As you sped up, an elderly woman enters the crosswalk in front of TJ Maxx and she walks.so.slow. Granny! You're going to melt! Get a move on!
You make it into the store and stand in the aisle deciding between 2 shirts when you hear a bubbly "Hi!"
Taken aback, you give the lady across the aisle a half assed smile and wonder where the hell you might know her from.
You continue to stare at her until SHE looks uncomfortable and walks away.
That's when you notice she's on her cell.
I can't tell you how many people I've said "Hello!" back to or replied "Umm, fine. Thanks" when they walk next to me and say "Hey! How are ya?". You should be required to hang a red flag from your rear bumper or from your head if you are driving or walking or shopping while chatting on your itty, bitty, indiscernible phone. Give me a heads up for pete's sake. I don't want to be your friend. Don't trick me into acting like I do.
Today at the supermarket I saw THE THING that is going to make my week.
Standing in line to check out, the lady ahead of me was on her cell. She couldn't be bothered enough to help the cashier bag her groceries as there was no bagger kid around. She stood there and chatted as her white bread got smashed by case after case of Coke at the end of the conveyer belt.
She finally checked out and pranced on her way. I quickly checked out (since I helped bag my groceries!) and followed her out of the store.
Another cell phone using lady was entering the store at a rapid pace. Both of these women were totally oblivious to anything other than their super duper important conversations about nail polish and then IT happened.
They slammed right into one another.
BAM!! Head on collision of two blondes on cells in aisle 3 please!
Damn, it's going to be a good week.
