In for the kill

Technology is great. It’s given me all sorts of wonderful toys and has allowed me to waste more time than I could have achieved doing something else like, say, knitting. It does have it’s downside though, and that’s when it allows you all to act like complete halfwits.

If you’ll think back a while, I had a lovely rant about how you’re all idiots because you can’t wait to reach your destination and insist upon texting in your car whilst driving. You weren’t here for that? Right. You’re all idiots because you can’t wait to reach your destination and insist upon texting in your car whilst driving. Seriously, unless it’s a matter of life or death it can wait the 5 minutes it will take you, or even the half an hour it will take you if you’re sitting in traffic. And you know what? If it’s really really important, you’ll get yourself a damn hands free kit and phone whoever it is you urgently need to tell something.

Now it’s gotten even worse thanks to technology.

Technology has given us smart phones and twitter. Devices that when combined lower your intelligence to that of a maggot. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you? Are you so determined to be a hazard to everyone else’s lives on the road that you have to tweet that traffic is bad or a porsche cut you off or you want to get home and eat dinner? I mean sweet jesus christ on a pogo stick. Doesn’t that strike you as disturbing? Doesn’t it make you feel a tiny bit iffy that you can’t even disconnect yourself for an hour out of your waking life to sit in fucking traffic? You have issues my friend. Big ones. Especially when you don’t even consider what you could end up doing to someone elses life by not paying attention for a split second.

Wait, here come the excuses. “But traffic was at a dead stop.” “I was at a robot.” “I know where the buttons are without looking at my phone”

That all amounts to blah blah blah. You’re a fucking moron and that’s the end of it. Really though, I don’t feel contempt for you. Rather, I feel some amount of pity. I know that isn’t my usual style but what else should I feel for people who are so unbelievably sad that they’re too afraid to be with themselves for a tiny portion of their day? To switch off the machine and look around and take in what the world has to offer them just for five minutes?

And if my rant doesn’t make you feel bad I’ll tug at the heart strings most of you have because that always seems to work. I just have to look at how many of you are tweeting from your car about bleeding heart shit to know that.

That is a 3 year old boy named Griffin after his parents car was hit by a girl who was texting while driving. Do you want to be responsible for that? Now, if you’re like me and a kid in a hospital doesn’t really have an effect, how about this. If you had to land a child like this in hospital with severe head trauma, do you think his parents aren’t going to sue? When there are records that you were driving recklessly? That would end up as a lot of cash you’d have to fork over. All because you couldn’t wait to tweet about your self involved little world or text your friend that you just saw the most gorgeous blonde in that Audi you passed.

If only it was your own life you were risking and no one elses. Then Darwin could have his say and we’d be rid of you.

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