So here I am driving down Qualcomm Way into San Diego’s Mission Valley area, when this motorcycle cuts across my lane. He moved from the right through the middle lane to the left. The guy was lucky that I saw him. I looked over while passing the motorcyclist, who was stopped in the left turn lane hunched over a cell phone. He had been texting! While driving a motorcycle!

Times like this, I want to move to Manhattan and walk, or subway, everywhere. Better to run into someone texting and walking than run them over. Texting and riding a motorcycle go odd together down death’s lane.

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