A close corollary to this is when I am going to the high school to pick up my daughter and other high school kids just wander into the street, whether looking at their phones or not. I guess this shows I am old, but when I was in high school I preferred not to play chicken with on-coming motorists so I at least looked and found a gap in traffic before crossing the street. The other day we were driving down a relatively busy street going to visit friends and about 4 teens glanced over their shoulders, obviously saw us approaching at 35 mph, and just stepped out into the street. One of them was looking right at me the whole time. I stepped on the brakes, squealing the tires a bit as I stopped fast, and got dirty looks and one middle finger from the kids. This was in the middle of a block, no where near the intersection or a cross-walk, and was an hour after school was out (although it was obvious they were all high school age with backpacks and all that). I don't get that behavior at all. Seems stupid to me. One day they will step out in front of someone watching their phone rather than the road and get plowed down. I guess that would be natural selection then, right?
Haha.. guilty.
I do that. I normally have my phone in my back pocket, so when I sit down, I have to take it out. I don't get on it though. I'll answer a text or phone call, if it needs my attention. But I won't just sit there on it. I won't facebook, or surf the net, or check the scores, or whatever.
Yeah, you have one of the best players in NBA history on the team you root for, just be happy. Stockton put everything he had on the floor every ****ing time he suited up. He was written off before he entered the NBA and he was underestimated all 18 years of his career, but yet he has two essentially unbreakable all-time records and gave me something to root for in my hometown team year after year. There was never a season in the 90's that I didn't think the Jazz could win it all. With Stockton and Malone we always had a chance.
