Driving and Your Cell (Phone, Not AP Bio)
Pay attention: you cannot text message your friends while driving.
One more time: YOU CANNOT TEXT MESSAGE YOUR FRIENDS WHILE DRIVING.
It’s distracting, and it’s dangerous. Even just talking on the phone, eyes front and on the road, is dangerous. If you want to gab with Betty Sue (man, what decade do we think it is?), have Mom drive and you sit in the passenger seat. If you’re not driving, gab away all you want. Text. Sext. Shmext. Whatever. But texting on a cell is strictly forbidden while you are driving.
Also, while it isn’t technically illegal—yet—to use your cell phone while driving in the state of Alaska, Shmoop HIGHLY discourages that type of activity. Think about what happens statistically: you are 2-3x more likely to hit some innocent person on the road if you are talking on your cell while you’re driving. Why is your setting up a date with Harry more important than Aunt Shari’s health and that of the baby she is carrying in her stomach? Oh, Aunt Shari had her baby? Congratulations! We should send a card…