About two weeks ago they started an aggressive campaign to stop texting and driving.
I even got stopped by a police officer who seemed very disappointed when he looked on my passenger car seat and saw an empty Doritos bag instead of a cell phone. I said, "Sorry officer, I don't even own a cell phone."
So he gave me a $150 ticket for not maintaining my lane, even though I was only moving over to accommodate him, since he was being squeezed on the right by a bus.
No good deed goes unpunished. Never had a ticket for anything in my life. This is my first, and all for trying to accommodate a police officer. Of course, I didn't know it was an officer since he was in an unmarked card with tinted windows.
A student told me that she'd heard they were adding additional police officers for this blitz and I believe it. They are everywhere.
Even though I was unfairly targeted, I support this blitz and I am sick and tired of what cell phones are doing to everyday life. I am tired of fools who stop in the middle of the road to text. Yes, that actually happened to me not once, but twice in one day.
And trying to navigate a cart at the grocery store? They just stop wherever and stare endlessly in their phone.
I wear headphones so I don't have to hear their stupid conversations.
Even though our department has rules about students using cellphones in class, they still do it. I looked out at them the other day and said, "I'd love to take a picture of you fooling around on your cell phone and send it to your parents. I would caption it 'This is what your kid is doing with that $16k you spent on tuition this year.'"
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