I slipped into full rant mode while responding to Pam’s comment and realized something that I find curious with regard to texting. I’ve noticed that the greatest “offenders” of behind the wheel texting seem to be equally divided between the genders under the age of say, 25. But above the mid 20′s – it seems that far, far more women text behind the wheel (and perhaps overall).
Seriously, how often do you see a 30-40 year old male construction worker type behind the wheel of his pickup truck working his thumbs over the keypad of a cell phone? Yet just about every time I see someone in that age bracket doing the keypad thumb tango, it’s a she.
Why is that?
I despise text messaging, and my male co-workers (all geeks) are of the same mindset. However, their wives and daughters seem to be texting pros. Mrs. Who is the exception – she’s even more vehemently anti-texting than I am. (Just ONE of the reasons I do love my beautiful, intelligent and sexy wife!*)
So am I way off base, on to something, or just a sexist redneck jerk? 
(*Points?) 
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I hate texting because of what it is doing to the young generation’s language skills. I keep thinking of ‘Oldspeak’ and ‘Newspeak’ in Orwell’s 1984. There was also an aspect of these shortened speech patterns in ‘Fahrenheit 451′. And it wasn’t pretty in either story.
Nuspk.
You are just correct. It’s called profiling and you are right as far as I can tell.
Profiling. ME?? Hunh.
I detest texting and will not do it. Oldest Daughter [40 yr old] and her husband text constantly. Drives me bonkers.
What really irks me is the arrogant attitude texters have – especially the adolescents – rolling their eyes as I peck out whole sentences and fumble for the punctuation…
Add me to the “no texting” movement. Once in a while it has it’s uses, like when actually talking on your phone is not convenient. But when it comes to written or typed communication I’m pretty anal about properly formatted sentence structure and spelling. In short, I prefer emailing you something that can be clearly understood. Besides, I can’t type with my thumbs on a microscopic keypad. And texting while driving? The height of stupidity.
Actually, I text regularly. Like clockwork.
AT&T texts me the bill, and I respond in two separate messages:
“TOTAL” – to verify I want to pay the total amount, and
“YES” to authorize the charge against my bank account.
Anything else is agony for me to attempt. And idiots driving down the road while texting? Yeah, I’ve had more than my share of close calls while on my bike. THEY are one of the reasons my bike is LOUD.