| Re: Cell Phones worse than DJs
Yes ... indeed. Driving is a mundane and boring task. When I started this
thread, I picked on cell phones, but I could as easily have picked on
eating, applying makeup ... shoot, I think it would be special if they'd a)
not allow anyone under 20 or so to drive and b) especially not allow
carloads of teenagers with a teenage driver. But really, I was just trying
to point out that, if we want to obsess about something, we have lots more
we can obsess about than what a couple of idiot DJs have to say. While I'd
never condone their call for violent acts against cyclists, I've been with
plenty of cyclists on group rides who rode so discourteously and selfishly
that it angered me ... and I was on a bike.
But heaven help the cyclist who gets in my path when I have a bag of popcorn
in the car and I drop a big, juicy kernel between the seats.
All of this is a large part of the reason I just moved to the absolute
middle of nowhere. I can do a 50 mile ride and be passed by maybe three
cars. And there's no cell phone service!
Bob C.
"Zoot Katz" <zootkatz@operamail.com> wrote in message
news:3fbc44fb.16515569@news.individual.net...
> Tue, 4 Nov 2003 17:41:50 -0600,
> <bo9dfg$1at1bq$1@ID-194653.news.uni-berlin.de>,
> "Pat" <me@privacy.net> wrote:
>
> >When a person talks on a phone, their mind is occupied because
> >they are having to make decisions. Eating is just shoveling food into
your
> >mouth.
> >
> And keeping it out of your lap.
>
> Eating and drinking while driving are definitely distractions to the
> job at hand. That job, boring as it is, is 'watching out for the other
> guy'.
> --
> zk
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