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Short Story About Thanksgiving
TEXTING WHILE DRIVING
As an everyday routine Abby wakes up like any other day. She turns off the alarm clock, then drags herself out of bed wishing it was already Saturday. She Jumps in the shower and rushes out because her clock was thirty minutes behind and they had called asking if Abby was coming in for work. As she says yes she on her way to the salon she has this really bad feeling in her stomach. Even though she doesn’t know what’s in plan for her today and tragedy that’s going to happen to her. Abby jumps in her car, hair still drenching wet and coffee in her hand as her phone starts to ring and vibrate constantly for all the appointments that she had scheduled with her clients yesterday. As she shouts “OK, I am on my way”, she takes off in a hurry turning at a stop sign, but forgets to make a complete stop and she tries to cut in front of this man and realizes she almost lost her life right there. Keep focus Abby as she whispers to herself, just go to work and then start the day. As Abby is driving down Main Street making a left turn on to the interstate a white jeep makes a stop in the middle of the interstate and the same lane as Abby’s. Abby tried to hurry up and make a complete stop before smashing in to the rear of the jeep, she finally stops and her phone flies toward the bottom of the floor. Struggling to grab it before she exits off the interstate and drive without crashing, she thinks she would make it on time before she gets to the yield sign; she grabs it with her fingertips.
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This research paper is discussing how to stop texting, banning phones and if phones are important then your life. We can all make a difference by stop texting while driving and making it not legal to be able to text or even lift it up and once a cop sees someone text needs to hurry up and pull them over and give them a

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