February 21, 2008
Listen Up!
This.
Is a rant.
Just warning you.......
It's well known, at least around here, that I travel a lot. Travel via driving. AND....I spend a lot of time on the phone. Still while driving.
Not the best thing, but if I pulled over every time my phone rang, I'd get about .75 miles each day. Not real productive.
So....I use a hands free device on my phone. Still a bit distracting, but I have both hands on the wheel and can handle things that come up a bit better.
Now......one thing that makes me see red every single time are these folks that drive around, usually much faster or slower than the posted speed limit, with their damned phones to their ears.
STOP IT! STOP IT NOW! A hands free device is not that expensive. Hell, most cell phones come with the speaker option so if you don't want a "bud" in your ear you can do that.
But this shit of driving around with the phone to your ear is DANGEROUS. Seriously. If you only knew how many close calls I've had because some dipwad thought it was more important to talk than drive you'd be amazed.
Now....I'm fully aware that a lot of you do not use handsfree. Hell, some of my best friends don't. You've got two months. If you are in my circle of friends and still do not have a hands free device - AND USE IT - then I'm cuttin' you off. I will NOT call your cell phone. If you call me, and I find out we're talking while you are driving, I'm hanging up.
Today was the final straw. I was in Chicago rush hour traffic. A car on either side, goin' at decent clip. Both were on the phone. The lady to my left started drifting (and no...she wasn't asleep) I had no where to go. As I looked to my left that guy was so busy with the phone to his ear, gesturing with his other hand that he never realized what was going on.
Not. A good time.
So.......this is what I'm gonna need for you to do. Either Do Not use your phone while operating a moving vehicle or get a hands free set.
I don't know where you are, and I'm all over the place. So realize this....every time you drive with that damned phone to your ear, you are endangering me, my teammates or someone I care about.
And I take that very personally.
Whew I'm done now. But boy does that piss me off!
Posted by Tammi at February 21, 2008 09:46 AM | TrackBackYeepers!! The Road Warrior is on the move! :)
Posted by: Richmond at February 21, 2008 11:09 AMI feel your pain... and let me assure you; I just don't do it. Period. I get so few cell calls while I'm driving that it doesn't make sense to have that thing hanging off my ear... so if my cell rings I wait til I get where I'm going and park to return the call. I don't even look to see who called until I park!!
Yeah, I'm pretty stringent about those things... and Arthur knows not to worry about me unless I don't call him back within about 30 minutes.
Hope the rest of your day is much, much better!
Posted by: pam at February 21, 2008 11:12 AMI have to agree with you on this one. It's as dangerous as drunk driving.
I don't drink if I'm gonna have to drive and I use hands free, with the little bug in my ear, like I've been assimilated.
Posted by: bx19 at February 21, 2008 12:49 PMGirl, I'm going to have to pray for you too now that you're driving so much.
As for me, I don't drive, but if I call someone and they don't have their hands free on I get off the phone pronto. I don't want it on my conscious if there's an accident.
Posted by: Journey at February 22, 2008 01:38 AM