I am really at a loss. AS I was driving down St. Albert Trail (’scuse me, Mark Messier Drive) this morning, I noticed not one, but TWO people driving with little white headphones on. The first, a portly fellow driving a magenta Neon, was full-on singing along, most likely poorly. The second, a young woman in a Ranger, appeared to be applying lipstick while she drove. I’m starting to think that we really do deserve our reputation of bad (at the very least, negligent) drivers.
I mean, c’mon. Yes, iPods are great. Headphones are the problem I suppose. When used together, they should be used when there’s no music available. If you’re in a car, you have a radio, probably a cd player, hell, probably even a jack to plug your iPod into. There’s plenty of other solutions available rather than making yourself even more oblivious to what’s going on around you. And it is an entirely different matter than having a cranked stereo. With headphones on, you’re hyper-focused. It may be easy enough to go straight, but I’m pretty sure its difficult to be aware of what is going on around you.
Forget cell phones. Little while headphones are a sure sign of an accident waiting to happen. Some people…
UPDATE
I’ve just been informed that this is, in fact, illegal. It seems that my frustrations are valid.
