[chris37]

Just recently drove with my friend from new orleans to baton rouge, about an hour drive. I was the passenger, so I was gazing out the window a bit. For about a 20-30 mile stretch, every single female that we passed was either texting or on the cell phone. I did not see a male doing the same during this period.

It’s time for women to get their heads out of their electronic pacifiers and stop being menaces to other people on the road. Get control of your ADD and your endless need to socialize and pay attention to the road.

[Finny]

Good rant ... on the phones, I see mostly women, too. But as for texting ... my own experiences in So Cal are that men text quite a lot. Yesterday a guy probably in his late 20s driving on a five-lane freeway in a zippy late-model Japanese two-seater sports car -- in the far right lane, passing because in many circumstances, the "slow" lane of a moderately busy 4 or 5-lane freeway is faster than the "fast" lane. I was a passenger; our cars were abreast a couple of times, and both times, I could see him texting, keeping one eye on the texter and smiling at whatever he was reading or writing, while keeping the other on the road ... he was going about 75 mph.

*sigh*

[Waryone]

Every time one of these threads comes up some guy gets on with an anecdote about women being the only ones texting. I on the other hand have seen far more men driving big rigs texting.

My husband bought me a big SUV because a woman on a cell phone ran a red light, hit me, and totaled my station wagon some years ago. Riding in that SUV, there are very few cars on the road that scare me now, cell phone or no. But those truck drivers texting and talking on phones frighten me to death.

Unless someone gets to these kids and reminds them they are not the only ones on the road, there are going to be some horrific accidents coming and it won’t just be some women in little cars. The cause will be irresponsible men in 18 wheelers, cement and rock trucks, and logging rigs, what have you. The end result will be catastrophic.

[ican'tbelieveit]

I have a coworker that I pass when commuting to work many mornings... and she is on her cell phone everytime. Then, every morning, as she walks in the door, she is finishing a conversation. Do people really have that much to say?

And in terms of obnoxious, I have seen many men talking loud on their cell phones for attention. Amazes me.