They're harder to measure, I imagine, as far as major/minor. If you're pulling out of a parking lot and your favorite song comes on, you get excited and hit the gas pedal early and hit someone, I think we'd all just chalk it up to a bad timing even if it wasn't. But even if minor, I feel like the clear example is…
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Touch screens have made it a lot worse. You can reach out and have the tactile experience of grabbing a radio knob or hitting a button. You know where it is by feel.
Even if you're well-trained, thinking to yourself, "I don't like this song, I'm going to change it." is the distraction, not just the act of putting your hand on the dial or looking down.
It's an addiction. Logic and reason won't get them to stop.
Actually, studies have shown that taking a hands free call diverts your attention just as much. Humans just are not nearly as good at multi-tasking as we think we are. It's different from having a conversation with a passenger in your car, because that passenger is also (consciously or not) paying attention to road…
Hands free is actually bad too. The problem isn't just that people aren't looking at the road or have their hands off the wheel (who drives with both hands on the wheel anyways?) but that they get too distracted in their conversations to pay attention to the road.
It's all dangerous, even hands free has been found to distract some people. The point is that distracted driving is bad, period. No matter what it is that distracts you (and not everyone can judge what is truly a distraction for themselves).
Hey morons, it's not a miracle that it didn't kill you, it's the opposite of a miracle because you got into a fucking hideous car crash.
Ugh. I am all for having a bunch of events lined up if a lot of family and friends are going to be in town, but making them alllll optional, especially in a big city. Want to stay an extra day and take a boozy boat cruise around the river, but don't want to come out and go to a baseball game? Cool! See you for boat…
Eh, I think it depends on the situation. I had a friend get married on memorial day a few years back. It wasn't an excuse to get people to do more things. The wedding was just rehearsal dinner and wedding, no extra parties or brunches or anything else, and part of the reason they had to do this is because her husband…
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That second one is my cat every single time I try to make my bed.
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He also did Cat vs. Printer!
That contract takes all the open out of an open relationship.
Okay?! That is a suit either made by Dolce and Gabbana or custom made. There isn't a single thing about that suit that is cheap, lazy or anything other than befits the man wearing it. The "right" mocks him for wearing Mom jeans and the moment he wears an expensive suit, they scream over spending. Yeah, fuck off. I…
I thought it was an OK suit!
I refer to my naps as 'small sleeps' because they usually last 2-3 hours. Naps make me happy.
I have never only napped for 20 minutes. If I nap, I'm down for the count for HOURS. There's no waking me up. Better not to nap if a deadline is approaching.
I don't know if I've just been out of college to long or what, but my immediate reaction to this term was "Ugh, who wants to ruin an opportunity for a good nap with fucking?"