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date = "2016-09-15T14:10:48+03:00"
title = "Don't WhatsApp and Drive"
slug = "dont-whatsapp-and-drive"
author = "Alan Orth"
tags = ['WhatsApp', 'Driving', "Amman"]
description = "Certain common sense public safety considerations haven't reached Jordan yet."
image = "/2016/09/IMG_20160810_162505.jpg"
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{{< figure src="/2016/09/IMG_20160810_162505.jpg" title="Billboard in Amman cautions against using your phone while driving" alt="Billboard in Amman cautions against using your phone while driving" >}}

I can't even read Arabic but I'm pretty sure that billboard is telling people to *put their fucking phones down while driving*. It's like an epidemic here. I've never seen people look less at the road while driving than here in Amman.

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