Please Don't

Please don't text and drive, talk on your cell and drive, drink and drive, eat and drive, put on make-up and drive, turn around and talk to the kids in the back seat while you continue to drive .... well the list could go on and on and on.  Yesterday in my town a husband & father of young children was riding a bicycle out on a street just outside of town with a group of people training for a triathlon when he was struck by a car and killed.  This was a long stretch of paved 2-lane out in the country, not a high traffic street. The 20 year old driver was allegedly texting and driving, drifting across his lane, and the next, to accidentally strike the man on the other side of the street.  Same thing happened to another man in January.  Same thing happened to a woman last year.  I feel horrible for this man's family, his co-worker and friends who were riding with him and watched him die, and for the young man who hit him.  That 20 year old will have a long time to not be able to forget the sight of that man as he hit his car windshield and flew over the car. The sight and sounds of getting out of his car and witnessing the man die with his friends around him as they waited for an ambulance. My college student son loves to ride his bicycle to work, shopping, to visit his friends, all over -- for the exercise, for the joy of riding, to save gas money.  He has lights, wears a helmet, etc but still I worry every day knowing that he is riding around town.  As we know too well a helmet doesn't always save you when a car hits you.  I don't want anyone I know to be killed while riding a bike.  I don't want anyone I know to be the one not giving their total attention to driving and do the killing.  I am just as guilty as anyone.  Anyone who drives is just as guilty.  A friend of mine lost her life when she glanced down to change a CD and ending up rolling her car. Let's all just decide when we put the key in the ignition that we will do anything we need to do before we turn the key, and once we turn the key let's all decide to give driving our full attention.  Please.