Perfect. “Poking fun at the hands free law that went in to effect in California July 1st. There is a lot of reality in this video. We all know talking on the phone is the safest of tasks we pull off while driving.”
I heard a good joke on the Boag World podcast the other day, and didn’t find a short, easily linkable version anywhere, so I figured I’d just copy it here to share:
The Train Ride
A man and a woman who have never met before find themselves assigned to the same sleeping room on a transcontinental train. After the initial embarrassment and uneasiness, they both go to sleep, the man in the upper berth, and the woman in the lower berth.
In the middle of the night the man leans over, wakes the woman and says, “I’m sorry to bother you, but I’m awfully cold and I was wondering if you could possibly reach over and get me another blanket?”
The woman leans out and, with a glint in her eye says, “I have a better idea. Just for tonight let’s pretend that we are married.”
The man happily says, “OK. Brilliant!”
The woman says “Good … get your own blanket.”
If your schedule is flexible enough, you could structure your sleeping in varying patterns to allow you the perception of extra time in each day without losing sleep.
When I was a kid, it was common knowledge that you would get cramps and drown if you went swimming within an hour of eating. It never occurred to me that if eating and swimming was a deadly combination, the bottom of every pool would be covered with corpses. I never heard of anyone perishing from a sandwich-related drowning. It turns out there was a good reason: Eating before swimming doesn’t cause cramps after all.
He goes on in the rest of the post to reflect similarly on cell phones crashing planes, getting AIDS from oral sex, the deadly danger of terrorism that we as Americans must live in ever-vigilant fear of, vegetarians not getting enough protein, and, of course, the many perils of drinking diet soda.
For a more straightforward joke, see the adjacent post about politeness.