Thread: Cell Phones - I need to rant

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Dave S, The worst part about my rant - those @#$% ARE illegal to use handheld in NY while driving. And the police DO pick people up, for what little good it does. $50 for the first offense up to $300 plus license points each time. We have one - wherever it is - and it gets used about a dozen times a year, and that's usually only when one of us is out of town and want to 'report' safe arrival.

Where I work, Maryland, women don't need cell phones to accomplish the same as you witnessed. It's a women thing, cell phones are just one of their crutches.

I totally agree that cell phones are a distraction when doing anything involving machinery or kids. Should be outlawed. Unlikely to happen here in my lifetime.

I never owned or wanted one until I was 60 years old, and the only reason I got one then was my Ex-Wife bought me one for Xmas. I'm like you, I hate the darned things.........well, not the cell phone itself, but the inconsiderate people who use them.

One time I took my Ex-GF out for a romantic dinner to St Armans Circle in Sarasota. We got the second story balcony (there are only two tables out there) and in the middle of a nice, quiet dinner some clown comes out and stands 3 feet from us and starts a loud conversation on his phone. Finally, I said "Dude!! We're trying to have dinner out here, would you mind!!" He looks at me like I'm the crazy one but did move back inside. I see it all the time where people standing in line next to you are carrying on a conversation at the top of their lungs as if no one around them matters.

And as for people driving with one arm glued to their head, don't even get me started.

Don

I lost an employee this week-he had a few drinks (last Saturday night), and was talking on his Cell and veered right into a big Boulder along the Highway-sad, really, he was a good guy (luckily not married) and it was a single car accident.

Distracted driving is distracted driving-I lost a neighbor a few Years ago who was changing a CD in his Stereo. I agree that Cells are problem, however-I personally know that I have been talking to someone while driiving (I try not to do it anymore (I pull over now), but Business is business), and when I get done I realize that I don't remember where I've been-

I would venture to guess cell phone drivers are killing more people on the road than drunks. It's everywhere and scary is the little girls and boys who barely know how to drive anyway and they are texting while driving.
On top of the whole safety issue is just plain bad manners. I have friends, relatives who I get in to go somewhere with or go to their house for coffee and they yap to someone else for an hour while you set there like a big dork. The things are a frickin social blight.