ALMOST messed my Dr. Dentons

[old2soon]

On U S 63 North on the North end of Rolla Mo 3 traffic lights away from I-44 which I needed to get onto Eastbound to go to my P G R mission today. Saw the light ahead of me go red and 3 cages ahead of me and myself were on the whoa equipment and I'm stopped and PAYING a lot of attention to my mirrors and I'm in first clutch lever pulled in and this humongous ford s u v was NOT stopping and I'm easing the clutch out for the left side of the lane gonna hammer on her split the cars and go into the donut shop across the street when said ford wakes up-FINALLY-and locks down his/her/it's speed retarding device(s) tortures some rubber dives right and misses me by mere fractions of an inch. SONOFABEACH! I thought-erroneously-Thank GOD-that the ford s u v was gonna squish me and my beloved Phatt Ghurl-well-squishy  I still don't KNOW if texting-sex-a computer-food or stupidity was the cause of me almost gittin squishy  And how was y'alls day?  177 miles today  RIDE SAFE.

[cookiedough]

daydreaming is so bad nowadays it makes you wonder how some get their drivers license.  Glad you made it out without getting a severe love tap from the rear.  I would have probably tried to go around the cars in front and oncoming traffic on the sides, etc. but then again,  if you would have done that and caused an accident running a red light,  then YOUR fault for the idiot behind you that you thought would have taken you out. 

WAY, way too many gadgets and things to do vs. just paying attention to what is all around you while driving. 

I see now vehicles are braking for us in emergency situations with sensors in front, etc.,  is probably a good thing as long as the computers controlling the braking situation does not fail.  Plus, as long as NEVER standard eqmt. since I refuse to pay for 1000's in options that I do not want nor care to pay for.  Just like on my previous tundra,  I wanted a 300 dollar power sliding rear window, but in order to get that,  I had to spend 900 on the TRD off road package to just get that so I lived without.

Just like my techy neighbor paying for same 2014 year as my mid-level SR5 tundra for 32K on a fully loaded 2014 mazda cx-5 small SUV he MUST HAVE all the gizmos in it decked to the max costing more than 32K.  Why is beyond me??  Yet, he just came over to my house awhile ago whining his 19" odd ball sized fancy tires that need replacing soon will cost him an arm and a leg since NOT many choices out there in that odd size 19" tire that came in that top of the line package when plain old 17" tires would have been perfectly fine.  In one of his previous techy vehicles, he caused an accident by NOT paying attention in our town on a slow speed turn off the main hwy. and rammed into the car stopped at the stop sign playing with his gadgets in his other vehicle NOT paying attention to where he was driving.

[Robert]

Started to look on who was on cell phones, texting and count. Between this weekend and last without trying I counted about 20 to 25. a few were traveling down 95 at 70 looking down with the occasional lookup. Something has to be done about this. I am thinking about a helmet cam just to take shots of these people along with plates and send them into the Police. One girl on the turnpike that got off at my exit was texting furiously the whole time I had seen her on the turnpike. At the stop I yelled get of the phone and stop texting and got the angry one finger salute.