Cell phone users are just like drunks

Lately I've really started noticing all the cell phone using drivers around here. It amazing, why can't people just hang up and drive? This morning on I-405 my wife and me saw the neatest cell phone idiot incident I've seen in a while.

In moderate traffic a big panel truck is changing lanes to the left. He gets right over in front of a car that is moving much quicker. The driver of the car slams on his brakes and lays on the horn for a really long time as the seemingly oblivious truck driver keeps getting over into the far left lane. As we pull alongside the truck we notice that the truck driver is yakking on his cell phone. If he ever noticed the car he cut off I couldn't tell. I wondered aloud why the cut off car driver hadn't swerved instead of braking because he came extremely close to hitting the back of the truck. So close in fact that I hit my brakes and swerved over to the right to get away from what I was sure was going to be an accident.

As the angry cut off driver sped past the panel truck in the right lane my wife noticed why the car driver's accident avoidance skills were seemingly sub-par. The cause? Oh he was talking on a cell phone too of course.