One day, people went about their business, sharp and alert, and then, the very next day, the streets and roads were filled with slack-jawed zombies peering into little screens, tapping compulsively into little keypads, oblivious to anyone and anything around them. Smart phones have almost instantly turned us all, well, many of us anyway, into stupid people.

People who drive into each other at high speeds because they're too busy tapping LOL into their smart phones. People who try to order lunch in a busy lineup at the same time agreeing with their girlfriend (who is somewhere else) that all men are, like, totally potting soil.People who block street corners and doorways and elevators, breathing through their mouths, inert.

People who drop their smart phones into the urinal while updating their fantasy football roster. People who go out for dinner and text each other across the table. 

I could go on. In fact, I will. There's even a Facebook page called Smart Phones, Stupid People. And they're not kidding. There's a story about a stupid man who was so busy downloading an app on his smart phone while he was driving that it wasn't until he got home, parked his van in the driveway and police came to his door, he learned he ran over a 300 pound man in the street.

There's a photo of a truck with a message on the back: "Don't text and drive: Yours may be on the next shipment: Batesville Casket Company."

There's a story about how stupid people have become such a danger to themselves and others in Fort Lee, New Jersey, that the local police chief has officers ticketing people on the spot. He had to do something as there have already been 23 text-related pedestrian accidents since January.

And finally, there's the story of the Stupidest Person Ever: A college student (named Chance LOL) from Texas was driving when he texted to his friend: "I need to quit texting, because I could die in a car accident." He then immediately drove off a bridge and over a cliff. He suffered a broken neck, a crushed face, a fractured skull, and brain trauma. How could that be? He has no brain.

Believe it or not, distracted smart-phone related driving led to 3,000 road fatalities in the US last year. And that's before the release of the Galaxy S3 or the iPhone 5.

If this keeps up, an entire generation will go over the cliff along with Chance. At that point, the meek and a few others who can't afford a smart phone shall inherit the earth. At last, IMHO.