[Patrick L.]

Can I relate a story that kinda concerns texting?? Don't read if you're not interested and I promise it is not political.. I started flying with a friends daughter[ I've flown with 3 generations of this family]when she was 15 and she soloed on her 16th birthday..She flies well.. Her mother taught her to drive and on the way to the airport one day the daughter told me about her driving test and she was livid over failing it because she was only going 5 mph over the limit and that the light was yellow when she started through the intersection so it wasn't her fault that it changed before she drove through it and that she just barely hit that other car while she was demonstrating parallel parking..She deserved to pass.. Well, some years later, I'm now giving her commercial flight lessons and whenever she is driving when we ride together she is constantly on the phone or texting,, and,, she is still a terrible driver.. I would rather fly with her than drive.. Anyway she is furious with me because I told her that I refuse to teach her if she continues any type of cellphone usage while I'm with her.. Oh, this kinda came about when she pulled out her cellphone and started calling someone while we were flying one day.. No matter where you go or what you do, everyone around you has a cellphone stuck in their ear and if you can't see the phone its even scarier cuz their probably texting.. Have you also noticed that when you're out with other people as soon that phone goes off they feel the need to answer it??!! I turn mine off in those circumstances.. AH OH,, I'm ranting again aren't I ??!! Sorry..