I hate the damn things. Don't have one, don't want one. Driving should be the center of your attention without distractions. No reason to bother making a law against it, the one's we have now aren't enforced anyway. I'm not polite about phones being used in public either. Told a lady at a restaurant who was babbling away (loudly) on hers to shut the damn thing off, nobody's impressed! She shut it off and put it in her purse. When someone is in my garage and gets a call, it's always time for me to turn on the grinder--they either get the hint or go outside to talk. The majority of the ads for Christmas gifts on the tube this year or for some kind of electronic device to talk on or play games on--and a lot of them feature kids aged 10 and under. Heck, no we're raising an entire generation who seem to think the only way to communicate is electronically. When was the last time you saw an ad for dolls, footballs, building blocks, colors or anything like that? Good friend of mine is an elementary school teacher, she told me the other day that a lot of the kids in school have cell phones and use them whenever they can!! What are parents teaching their kids? The rule here for Christmas is that no toys for the girls require batteries that allow the toy to make noise! Just good old fashioned toys that require the kids to use their imagination.

I thought the glamour of cell phones and other such electronic gizmos might fade, but it's doing the opposite. Many people think they can't go anywhere or do anything without the infernal phone there on the ready! All this emphasis on instant communication is just one more step in the I want it all right now world we seem to be caught up in. Kids are growing up fat and lazy because of all these fantastic electronic creations that their parents buy them. I suppose it's much easier to just buy kids a new video game then actually take the time to sit down and play with them, or teach them how to play a game that requires a bit of imagination or though.

Back to the cell phones and driving--shut it off when you're in the car, you can check your messages when you get to your destination or pull over to the side of the road when you use them. The consequences of distracted driving are just too severe to ignore the problem, and don't think you're such a good driver that you can still drive better then anyone on the road while talking on your phone--drunk driver's use the same logic when they get behind the wheel. Believe it or not, you can survive just fine without one of them damn phones stuck in your ear all day long!!! Don't wait for law enforcement or the government to come up with a solution, look how screwed up they have everything else that they've tried to fix. Don't be afraid to tell someone how rude they are next time they're walking around in a store or other public place talking on a cell phone and trying to impress all of us with how important they are! When I see a cop driving and chatting on his, I write down the car number, note the time, and let his boss know what the clown is doing.

Just put your dang phone down and pay a bit of attention to the world around you- might be surprised to see how many genuinely interesting things are going on!