You know that texting-while-driving video that's been circulating on the internet (that really graphic one that's popped up all over facebook and in your inbox a dozen times in the last few weeks)? Today on the radio I learned that it was initially intended as a Welsh public service announcement to teen drivers.
And then it made me remember how one day during high school drivers' ed, the class was hauled down to the local train track to watch the drama kids reinact a train wreck, complete with makeup-enhanced abrasions and bloodied McBeth dresses (well, okay, maybe they weren't exactly in costume, but this is just how the drama kids always appear in my memory), wailing things like: "Oh my Gosh! Sean isn't breathing! I think he's DEAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDD!"
Don't get me wrong, train wrecks aren't funny. They're not. But really, really, this was.
Which is why I'm glad for technological advances such as YouTube and videocameras that can step things up a bit. Make the kids pay attention. Because reckless teen driving is no laughing matter. Unless you attended MVHS in the late nineties.
2 comments:
Love it! Absolutely! They must've found out that wasn't too effective because they never put that show on for us... we were robbed!
I was going to say the same thing as April, I feel a little jiped. Is that how you spell that?
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