Return to Sender: Adventures on New Jersey Transit

To the Bus Driver Who Took Me to My Joke of a Job Interview in Cherry Hill:

When we stopped at a red light and I walked up to the front of the bus to ask you a question, it didn't exactly reassure me of my safety when I saw that you were sending a text message.

A simple Google search tells me that from April 2002 to July 2004, 456 drivers over the age of seventeen who owned or used mobile phones have been in accidents requiring hospital care. The rate of accidents due to text messaging also seems to be on the rise.

Kind of makes sense, doesn't it? Seeing as you have to look at your phone in order to compose text messages and all?

Listen... If you want to kill yourself, that's fine. But when you've got a bus full of passengers, and you're about to turn onto the expressway, I'd really appreciate it if you'd put the phone down. That means don't read your text messages or reply to them. It means don't even talk on the phone. You're driving for New Jersey Transit. We all know the law there.

At least you didn't bring your girlfriend to work with you. Seems to me that that could maybe have been even worse...

Image via Consumerist.