I think there should be certain tests that one should have to take before one is allowed to take part in certain endeavors.
Driver’s license tests should be given to everyone every few years. Not only would this prevent elderly drivers who no longer have the physical requirements needed to be competent drivers from getting licenses, it would weed out those drivers who forgot all of their training the second they got their licenses.
People should have to take tests before they can become parents. Not only would this stop a lot of the child abuse and neglect, it frees up a lot of landfill space currently crowded with used disposable diapers.
Lawyers should have to take integrity tests before they are allowed to practice and often after. Wouldn’t that put a different spin on reality as we know it?
It seems I am going to have to add a “responsible use of a cellular phone” to my list of tests people should have to take. Not because I actually think people should be required to take an intelligence test before they buy a cellular phone, but because common sense no longer seems to have a place in America.
The University of Toronto last week released a study that said drivers face a four-fold increase in risk of having an injury-producing accident when using a cellular telephone.
So immediately, a lawyer says this gives credibility to his lawsuit against Motorola because an incompetent driver swerved across the road while talking on his cellular phone and hit two of his clients.
Should I sue Maybelline if I am hit by a woman putting on mascara while she is driving?
I would venture to guess that if studies were done on accidents with parents driving with kids in the car, we would find that there was a greater chance that some kind of disruption (i.e., hair pulling, biting, hitting) occurred before the accident. I recently read that people driving with kids in the car have been targets of a scam where the con artist deliberately runs into a parent’s car because parents are quick to assume they were distracted.
The Toronto study shouldn’t come as a surprise. Anyone who has spent any time calling from a cellular phone can tell you it is best not to call while driving 70 mph during rush hour on the freeway. It is also best not to change radio stations while driving 70 mph during rush hour on the freeway. It is best not to have a conversation with a passenger while driving 70 mph during rush hour on the freeway. It is actually best not to be on the freeway during rush hour.
And people with common sense know this.
