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Does the kind of cigarette you’re rolling make a difference?
Comment by geezerette — April 25, 2012 @ 8:35 am
“Drinking and driving is something you can’t do well unless you practice.”
– Sam Kinison
Comment by mojo — April 25, 2012 @ 8:57 am
Every out of town trip I make starts with a sausage/egg McMuffin while driving. My wife unwraps and salt and peppers it, then I eat. Distracted? I think not.
Comment by Alan outback bacon czar — April 25, 2012 @ 9:39 am
That’s what ‘knee driving’ is for…rolling cigarettes, unwrapping sandwiches and so on. Admittedly harder to do if you have a stick shift but it can be done, just try to find a straight stretch of road. My sister used to finish dressing and putting on her makeup while driving, never had an accident.
Some people are just too stupid to walk and chew gum at the same time so it stands to reason they can’t drive worth a crap no matter what they are or aren’t doing.
Comment by joe — April 25, 2012 @ 9:58 am
Next,
they’ll have to ban cup holders in new cars,
and cigarette lighters,
and stereos,
and passenger seats.
You know, cars.
You don’t need new laws, Darwin always applies.
Of course, there will be collateral;
but that’s a good thing, according to envirowackos.
Comment by DougM (jackassophobe) — April 25, 2012 @ 10:06 am
I’ve been one hell of a lot more distracted than any of that while behind the wheel of a car, and I made it out alive.
Fortunately the missus outgrew that more adventurous phase of her life, my reflexes aren’t what they used to be.
Comment by apotheosis — April 25, 2012 @ 11:57 am
I thought there was already a penalty for inattentive driving.
Must need another law.
Comment by Paladin — April 25, 2012 @ 12:58 pm
They’re just working their way up to banning driving while driving.
People would be so much easier to control if they weren’t so damned *mobile*.
Comment by Merovign — April 25, 2012 @ 1:59 pm
That is why a breakfast burrito is preferable to hot soup.
Merovign, They are still working on “self-driving” (government controlled cars
Comment by mech — April 25, 2012 @ 4:54 pm
Some years back, I passed a woman who had the rear view mirror cocked so she could look directly into it, flossing her teeth while steering with her elbows.
Comment by Fat Baxter — April 25, 2012 @ 5:35 pm
Texas has a law that makes it a crime to fail to control your vehicle on a public road. Yet we also have these same laws that forbid specific actions that MAY cause one to be distracted. It’s all about control and revenue.
Comment by Manfred — April 26, 2012 @ 5:28 am
I used to eat all the time, during rush hour in Los Angeles, without my hands on the wheel. At 12,000 ft, on autopilot in a Beechcraft……
Comment by Colonel Jerry USMC — April 26, 2012 @ 6:53 am
^ColJ
You weren’t the guy, a few years back, who put his big RV bus on cruise control then went back to the kitchen thinking it was on autopilot, were ya?
Comment by DougM (jackassophobe) — April 26, 2012 @ 12:14 pm
We’re just lucky they let us drive at all. If cars were a recent invention, what are the odds they’d let any more people drive than in North Korea?
Comment by Larry — April 26, 2012 @ 7:32 pm
Nah Doug. That was a Reserve USAF C5A pilot. Fighter planes don`t got no *kitchen*…………..
Comment by Colonel Jerry USMC — April 27, 2012 @ 6:05 am