Doesn’t matter what she was doing. I was making a joking guess based on her age, but whatever was occupying her attention was doing so completely. She didn’t look up once the entire time I watched her in my mirrors…whatever the reason.
As far as texting goes, I think the reason it gets such a bad rap is because it’s the clear cause of so many reported accidents. I’ve been on a college campus for the past two years, and another four years some time before that, and every student that drives through that campus has their phone out. There are facebook groups dedicated to “txting n drvng,” weekly articles in the paper about some dumbass plowing into another person’s car while texting, etc. Not that anybody seems to care, but it’s illegal to hold a phone while driving in WA…you need a hands free set (which, as we all know, doesn’t solve the problem). So yeah, people do their make-up, eat their breakfast omelets, shave, tie their ties, fiddle with their GPS systems, etc. while in their cars, and all of those are just as bad. But texting has caused a slew of high-profile accidents, and that’s getting people’s attention.