Instead Of Saying 'Don't Text And Drive,' Teach People How To Text And Drive
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Instead Of Saying 'Don't Text And Drive,' Teach People How To Text And Drive

Everyone's going to do it, so might as well teach them how.

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Instead Of Saying 'Don't Text And Drive,' Teach People How To Text And Drive

You can't change someone's mind with a bumper sticker saying, 'Don't text and drive' or trying to scared the younger generation with horror stories of how your friend's husband's cousin died from getting in a wreck while being on their phone driving.

I mean obviously don't be on your phone constantly like when you're clearly speeding, you should probably be paying attention to the road so you don't slam into the back of someone's car.

Or when it's raining super hard and you can't see the road, maybe that's another time you can refrain from using your phone. You should know when you can be on your phone and when you shouldn't. If you know you know.

Nobody's listening to you, and you're honestly not stopping anyone with saying that. Like I'm sorry that happened, that horrible, but instead of just saying 'don't do it' try a different approach.

That's like saying the best way to not get pregnant is abstinence. IT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. And I know the older generation reading this is getting super mad about me saying this, but think about it.

When someone says to not do something, don't you want to do it more? Yeah, the kids and grandkids you're telling this tragic texting and driving stories to think so too.

We're going to do it no matter what. We need to look at directions (no, maps on paper aren't a thing anymore). We have to change the song on Spotify sometimes too. We don't always have a passenger to be the DJ. We need to snapchat our friends constantly, so driving long distances, for example, Dallas to Lubbock is almost a 6-hour drive, so being on your phone during that time is going to happen.

Give us simple fixes to this issue.

Get a phone holder to clip on to the air vents or on the windshield glass in the car like uber drivers have.

Look at your phone during red lights mostly.

Learn how to palm the wheel and have your phone in your right hand, yes this can get complicated if you're right-handed, which most of us are(including me), but it can work.

Hold your phone by your turn signal switches, so you don't have to look down to see your phone.

I feel like that's the most dangerous thing is looking down. And that's what most adults hate about the younger generation texting and driving.

But honestly, the Generation X is probably the worst about texting and driving. They don't know how to properly text and drive like the teens/20-something's do since they didn't grow up with phones.

You know the type of people I'm talking about. The ones that have their phone up to their face because 'the words are too small' and they have to use their pointer fingers to type. Those are the worst people to text and drive.

The point is: learn how to text and drive.

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