More distracted driving

You may remember a story I posted earlier in the week about very scary distracted driving quotes. If not you can clink on the link to refresh your memory, I'll wait.... OK, so I said that those were the scariest quotes I've seen about distracted driving. Well, this week, I saw a great piece in Randy Cassingham's THIS is TRUE email humorletter.

Excerpted with permission of the author from: THIS is TRUE Copyright 2003 by Randy Cassingham

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PERSONAL GROWTH: Sonny Morris El, 32, of Galesburg, Ill., was giving his girlfriend a ride home -- in more ways than one. As he drove, she was sitting on his lap, having sex with him. Being ...um... distracted, Morris El drifted over the center line and crashed head-on into a semi. Kristina Valerio, 25, was killed. Morris El has been convicted of aggravated driving under the influence of drugs and sentenced to 10 years in prison despite a plea for leniency by his lawyer, who says Morris El now has the mental capacity of an 11-year-old due to his own injuries from the crash. Morris El testified that the outcome of his "foolish" actions "opened my eyes not to take life for granted." (Peoria Journal Star) ...Not a bad insight for an 11-year-old. THIS is TRUE is a weekly column featuring bizarre-but-TRUE news with running commentary. To get it weekly by e-mail for FREE, e-mail join-this-is-true@lyris.net or see http://www.thisistrue.com Copyright 2003 by Randy Cassingham, All Rights Reserved.

This, strangely enough, reminded me of a story from high school. As many of you know I grew up in Southern Indiana, and spent a lot of time going to concerts in Indianapolis. I remember one Saturday night during my Senior year, I was driving home from a show that ended fairly late. My girlfriend was tired, and had put her head down on my lap to take a nap. Now, get your mind out of the gutter, that was all that happened there. As we were entering the outskirts of our town from the interstate, the street lights woke her and she sat up. Unfortunately she sat up just as we were coming up to police patrol car. I thought we would get a ticket for sure, although I wasn't really sure what the ticket would be for. Anyway, when I looked over to the officer in the car, I saw him just looking at me with a big grin and then he gave me a thumbs-up.