Subject: Re: [Harp-L] harping while driving

[EGS1217@xxxxxxx]

Thanks, Buzz & Mick: 
 
You guys and Steve Shaw have it right. As any cop who's showed up to the  
scenes where people are dead or maimed for life and a major accident was  
caused by someone's diverted attention 'for just a second', be it cellphone,  
'fiddling with the radio' or GPS, the kids seat belts, talking to a backseat  
passenger, texting, reading, looking too long in the rearview mirror and 
not  back at the car in front quickly enough, and on and on.  Reality is:  
ANYthing you're doing WHILE operating a moving car is a moment away from 
killing  yourself, your passengers and anyone else out on the road at the same 
time. Is  playing your harmonica while driving worth that? None of us want to 
believe it  since we all think we're the exception to the rule and that WE're 
the one who  can multitask. Statistics as well as anecdotal evidence prove 
we're all  wrong.
 
Elizabeth
 
"Message: 11
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:44:43 -0500
From: buzz krantz  <buzzo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] harping while driving
To:  Mick Zaklan <mzaklan@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx

On  6/21/2011 10:20 AM, Mick Zaklan wrote:
>     I don't have  much to add to this discussion except that to say that I
> actually got  into a car accident while playing the harmonica.  And at a
> SPAH a  few years later, I overheard a player well known to everyone on 
this
>  list confess that he had totaled his car doing the same thing.  So we're 
 not
> talking about something theoretical here.
>
>  Mick
>
>
About 5 years ago I got stopped by a cop & was told  he could give me a 
ticket. He gave me a pass. But he said next time he would  ticket me.
buzz.............


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