You Do WHAT While Driving?

The Today Show was all set to focus on Oprah's No Phone Zone Day this morning with a live phone interview with the great lady herself who assured wise Meredith and super-poised Ann and the perennially dressed-for-cocktails Hoda that of course she wasn’t calling while driving. She was going on and on in her folksy tell-it-like-it-is way when suddenly – bip! – the line went dead and she disappeared completely - which seemed pretty funny to me because it suggested that maybe even though she SAID she was Calling While Standing Still maybe even she was just then rounding a corner to pick up the dry cleaning.The worst thing of course is Texting While Driving. This is what's killing people, mostly teenagers. And if you haven't yet seen the horrific dramatization of a texting death and you think  you have the stomach for it you can watch it here. (Be careful though; it's pretty sickening.)But what I'm wondering is will Oprah’s efforts have an effect? We can only hope, because driving while texting really is insane and much, much harder to pull off than, say, driving while inserting a tampon, which believe you me many a female has done when she’s had to and her clothing allows it.The Today Show also spotlighted a parent showing her dead daughter’s student ID.  “How can this tiny thing remain when SHE is gone?" she basically asked the camera. But ah, that’s an easy one: Plastic will outlast us all; but a human? A human is as fragile as a ripe tomato – and that’s something we’d all do well to remember every single time we get behind the wheel.