Maybe you don't care and figure that nothing REALLY important can be gathered from my phone. You had better rethink your position on that EVERY time you put a new app on your phone, turn it off and back on (updates) and especially if you frequent Starbucks. Apparently, over 26 million transactions have been done there over smart phones. Now, theoretically if there was some problem, we would have heard about it by now. Except for the fact that the phones, their contents, and their use is constantly a moving target. It is easy enough to move from "safe" to "unsafe" with very little change. Do I want to see a charge card app on my phone, probably not. I would certainly like the convenience, but the risk is still too high. Furthermore, there is NEVER any proof offered that we are not tracked, and that data is not usurped from our smart phones. Only their word is offered to quell the fires of distrust and dismay.
How to Identify Where a Driver is From
1. One hand on wheel, one hand on horn: Chicago.
2. One hand on wheel, one finger out window: New York.
3. One hand on wheel, one finger out window, cutting across all lanes of traffic: New Jersey.
4. One hand on wheel, one hand on newspaper, foot solidly on accelerator: Boston.
5. One hand on wheel, one hand on nonfat double decaf cappuccino, cradling cell phone, brick on accelerator, with gun in lap: Los Angeles.
6. Both hands on wheel, eyes shut, both feet on brake, quivering in terror: Ohio, but driving in California.
7. Both hands in air, gesturing, both feet on accelerator, head turned to talk to someone in back seat: Italy.
8. One hand on latte, one knee on wheel, cradling cell phone, foot on brake, mind on radio game: Seattle.
9. One hand on wheel, one hand on hunting rifle, alternating between both feet being on the accelerator and both feet on brake, throwing McDonald's bag out the window: Texas.
10. Four-wheel drive pick-up truck, shotgun mounted in rear window, beer cans on floor, squirrel tails attached to antenna: West Virginia.
11. Two hands gripping wheel, blue hair barely visible above windshield, driving 35 on the Interstate in the left lane with the left blinker on: Florida.
A medical professional recently told me about a strange and little known malady. Somehow, it seemed appropriate to forward the information here. I did not make this up. Honest.
witzelsucht (vit'sel-zoocht) [Ger.]
"A mental condition characteristic of frontal lobe lesions and marked by the making of poor jokes and puns and the telling of pointless stories, at which the patient himself is intensely amused."
From Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 26th edition.
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