Deep Thoughts...

Folks, we live in the Day of distracted driving. Driving home from a work meeting today I nearly got into 5 accidents due to distracted people sitting behind the wheel of their car pretending to be driving responsibly. A person on their phone sitting at a intersection at a green light. A person playing on their phone in the left lane oblivious to the 10 cars behind them. It took me an addition 10 minutes to get home, and whole time I'm thinking about how distracted most people are, and how I'm going to have to factor this additional time into my schedule moving forward. This is only the beginning my friends. Trust me, I'm no saint. I'm guilty of this behavior as well, but seeing it today on a new higher level, I'm going to be more thoughtful about staying focused on driving and protecting myself and my passengers from all the other rockets on the road without pilots. Be careful out there!

#2 4 years ago

JZM

bangerjay

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#3 4 years ago

ROB

Rdoyle1978

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Good advice!

There is a perpetual state of distraction we live in now, with information coming from everywhere, and it’s not just phones. It’s 24/7 news, social media, jobs wanting us online all the time, and FOMO. I just got back from a week at a camp out in Maine. Very little cell service, no TVs no computers. It was awesome

#4 4 years ago

Darcy

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Scariest thing I've seen, a guy eating spaghetti on a plate, using both hands. While driving at over 60 MPH.

#5 4 years ago

JAY

Floyd

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I'm also getting rid of Direct TV today! Your right @rdoyle1978.. crap flying at your face 24/7 nowadays. I get stress out by it all. Unplugging is the only way out.

#6 4 years ago

JAY

Floyd

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But not unplugging from Pinside! Pinside can stay.. As long as everyone is nice

#7 4 years ago

LEV

CrazyLevi

I agree internet forum brethren and sisteren, we should all unplug and not be on the internet.

#8 4 years ago

SMK

TheLaw

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This is aboot as shallow of a thought as possible

#9 4 years ago

LEV

CrazyLevi

Quoted from TheLaw:
This is aboot as shallow of a thought as possible

Really? I have never before heard any ruminations on today's "smart phone" culture!

#10 4 years ago

ZZZ

Wickerman2

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Quoted from Darcy:
Scariest thing I've seen, a guy eating spaghetti on a plate, using both hands. While driving at over 60 MPH.

bah, no biggie, cars practically (sometimes literally) drive themselves these days...kids with their power steering. Try learning to drive with no power steering, stick shift 3/4 ton p/u...in the snow...uphill. Punks. I could cook a spaghetti dinner while driving with these new fangled contraptions.

#11 4 years ago

STV

FalconDriver

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As a pedestrian in Disney last month I got run over by a handicap scooter with occupant steering and using cell phone. Excuse me sir you need to pull over and take your call while
not in motion. Keep safe for all those walking beside you.

#12 4 years ago

MAT

branlon8

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Quoted from CrazyLevi:
Really? I have never before heard any ruminations on today's "smart phone" culture!

I thought that was the basis for all the complaints about DI - or I guess you are being facetious.

#13 4 years ago

LEV

CrazyLevi

Deep Thought: Airline is food is bad, also the DMV sucks!

#14 4 years ago

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littlecammi

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Pickup truck driver in front of me was on his cell phone and was weaving from side to side in the middle lane of a three lane road. I got into the left lane as he changed into the far right lane. I wanted to honk at him about the cell phone, but a sedan pulled up between us and I didn't want the sedan driver to think I was honking at them. But when I looked over into the sedan I saw a girl driving it while using her rear view mirror to put on her mascara. Yeesh!

#15 4 years ago

LTG

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Just be happy you got home alive.

It's scary out there.

LTG : )

#16 4 years ago

GWL

gliebig

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Were they all wearing Mom jeans?

#17 4 years ago

ACE

pinzrfun

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You can almost bet the the jackass in front of you doing 10mph under the speed limit is on the phone.

Or the one that doesn't move from the green light for 5 or 10 seconds. Because lights are for, you know, checking your messages.

#18 4 years ago

TSC

Bowlingpin

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It’s really scary seeing so many people on a cell phone or doing whatever while
behind a 3000+ pound machine. Motorcyclists I think have the most to lose- they could be excellent riders but all it’s takes is some idiot/assclown not paying attention which can easily cost them a leg or worse.

NY driving is the worst- include cellphones and it’s a more of a nightmare. Be safe and don’t drink/text/anything but drive.

#19 4 years ago

TKM

Daditude

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I received a collegiate degree in Communication. Whilst obtaining the degree, I saw hundreds of speeches. The most profound speech was from one of the head guys at the dmv that spoke about driving dangerously...complete with pictures. There were thousands in attendance, and there weren't many dry eyes when he was finished. It was incredibly unsettling.

He mentioned something that stuck with me: The dmv states that driving while using cell phones is the #1 cause of all accidents and fatalities...recently topping drunk driving.

That is insane.

#20 4 years ago

ACE

pinzrfun

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Quoted from Daditude:
I received a collegiate degree in Communication. Whilst obtaining the degree, I saw hundreds of speeches. The most profound speech was from one of the head guys at the dmv that spoke about driving dangerously...complete with pictures. There were thousands in attendance, and there weren't many dry eyes when he was finished. It was incredibly unsettling.
He mentioned something that stuck with me: The dmv states that driving while using cell phones is the #1 cause of all accidents and fatalities...recently topping drunk driving.
That is insane.

I've read studies that even hands free phone use causes distraction almost equal to drunk driving. Just what the mind is processing/imagining etc.

#21 4 years ago

PAT

GorillaBiscuits

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#22 4 years ago

LEV

CrazyLevi

Deep Thought: There's no fucking way the Stones show in New Orleans happens on Sunday, hopefully I can reschedule our flights for another weekend.

#23 4 years ago

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Pickle

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Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy.

Any one remember those?

#24 4 years ago

SMK

TheLaw

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Quoted from CrazyLevi:
Deep Thought: There's no fucking way the Stones show in New Orleans happens on Sunday, hopefully I can reschedule our flights for another weekend.

Shit that sucks! Did you get your new hotel room at the Superdome yet?

#25 4 years ago

ROB

rkahr

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OP
Quoted from Floyd:
I'm going to be more thoughtful about staying focused on driving and protecting myself and my passengers from all the other rockets on the road without pilots. Be careful out there!

Think driving requires attention? Most days I commute via bicycle in the DC area... from Virginia, across the DC line, and then over to Maryland. Some areas I'm separated from traffic, but the places that aren't offer an endless supply of buffoonery (and sometimes danger).

-Rob
-visit http://www.kahr.us to get my daughterboard that helps fix WPC pinball resets or my replacement LED display boards for model H & model S Skee Ball

#26 4 years ago

ART

OLDPINGUY

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....Watching a Group of Young College Co-Eds, out together for dinner at Outback.
No One talked. Everyone was on the phone. They texted each other across the table.

Will they Text through a relationship, and communicate through memes?

#27 4 years ago

HKY

HoakyPoaky

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booooooo

I thought this was a Jack Handy thread.

My favorite Deep Thought:

When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror, like the passengers in his car.

Runner-up:

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."

#28 4 years ago

LEV

CrazyLevi

Quoted from TheLaw:
Shit that sucks! Did you get your new hotel room at the Superdome yet?

Lol no..

Here’s the front yard of my current assigned accommodations..

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#29 4 years ago

ZZZ

Wickerman2

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Quoted from CrazyLevi:
Lol no..

Here’s the front yard of my current assigned accommodations..

just remember, it's always shallower than it looks. you're fine

#30 4 years ago

ACE

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Deep thought... what's the best butthole paper to buy at the grocery store?

#31 4 years ago

JAY

Floyd

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I like to consider pinball people smarter than average. Good place for a deep thoughts forum..

#32 4 years ago

JAY

Floyd

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Quoted from acedanger:
Deep thought... what's the best butthole paper to buy at the grocery store?

Not John Wayne toilet paper... I don't take shit off anyone!!

#33 4 years ago

SMK

TheLaw

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Quoted from CrazyLevi:
.
Here’s the front yard of my current assigned accommodations..[quoted image]

Holy Shit!

OP
Quoted from Floyd:
I like to consider pinball people smarter than average.

Ha POTW

#34 4 years ago

LTG

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Quoted from acedanger:
Deep thought... what's the best butthole paper to buy at the grocery store?

New. Not worth the money you save getting the used.

LTG : )

#35 4 years ago

TWP

pin2d

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My favorite Jack Handey:

To me, clowns aren’t funny.
In fact, they’re kind of scary.
I’ve wondered where this started
and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus, and a clown killed my dad.

#36 4 years ago

WOT

Atari_Daze

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I wanted to say something, but I got nothing.

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#37 4 years ago

JOR

jorro

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So your saying other people's distracted driving distracts you?

#38 4 years ago

WYO

Ballsofsteel

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i always laugh my ass off when i see people holding their smart phones and talking while driving in newer vehicles with hands free bluetooth........

#39 4 years ago

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littlecammi

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OP
Quoted from Floyd:
Deep thoughts...

Just think about the Mariana Trench.

Hey, it doesn't get much deeper than that.

#40 4 years ago

CRD

chad

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OP
Quoted from Floyd:
I'm also getting rid of Direct TV today! Your right rdoyle1978.. crap flying at your face 24/7 nowadays. I get stress out by it all. Unplugging is the only way out.

An excellent decision.

#41 4 years ago

NAD

Bublehead

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Here’s a Deep thought... it took the universe only one trillionth of a second to go bang but it took you 45 minutes, an oven mit, and an industrial size bottle of Jergens to do the same thing last night...

#42 4 years ago

JLD

JayDee

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Quoted from Bublehead:
Here’s a Deep thought... it took the universe only one trillionth of a second to go bang but it took you 45 minutes, an oven mit, and an industrial size bottle of Jergens to do the same thing last night...

45 minutes?

#43 4 years ago

SMK

TheLaw

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Jergens?

#44 4 years ago

MAT

sixtyfourbits

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An oven mit?

#45 4 years ago

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littlecammi

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Quoted from JayDee:
45 minutes?

Quoted from sixtyfourbits:
An oven mitt?

Quoted from TheLaw:
Jergens?

I guess we've been doing it all wrong...

#46 4 years ago

SMK

TheLaw

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Oven mitt hmmm...buble where you a cook in the Navy by any chance?

#47 4 years ago

LEV

CrazyLevi

Quoted from Bublehead:
Here’s a Deep thought... it took the universe only one trillionth of a second to go bang but it took you 45 minutes, an oven mit, and an industrial size bottle of Jergens to do the same thing last night...

humor is...not your strong point

#48 4 years ago

NAD

Bublehead

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Quoted from CrazyLevi:
humor is...not your strong point

I never claimed it was. But right now we have more “nothing” going on here on Pinside than anything else...

#49 4 years ago

SMK

TheLaw

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Quoted from CrazyLevi:
Here’s the front yard of my current assigned accommodations..[quoted image]

Uff I just saw theat you're missing the US Wmone's team party in NY for this shit

#50 4 years ago

LEV

CrazyLevi