Hey, guess what I don’t care about!
I don’t care to know that you currently have $38,000 in your checking account. I don’t care that your girlfriend kicked you out of the house for cheating on her with her best friend. I don’t care about your daughter who needs to be picked up early from school because she plastered the cafeteria walls with vomit. I don’t care about your crappy job or your appointment to get your hair colored next Thursday.
I really don’t care about any of those things, so why are you forcing me to listen to you talk about them? In case you weren’t aware, the things you say on your cell phone can be heard not only by the person on the other end, but also by everyone within earshot of you. The library is not a phone booth. The checkout line at the grocery store is not a phone booth. Church is not a phone booth. And you know what else isn’t a phone booth? Your car!
When you talk on your phone and drive at the same time, you’re putting my life in danger, and I don’t recall ever having authorized that. It’s not that driving with one hand is dangerous, because I can easily drive with one hand—heck, I can drive with no hands without getting into an accident. It’s the fact that you’re concentrating more on your conversation than you are on not crashing into me that worries me. In fact, the odds that you’ll crash into me increase 400% when you use your cell phone, so why don’t you drive now, talk later?
Passionate Mattionate
Guilty… but that’s probably true for everyone. What if the person on the phone is getting an emergency phone call that requires that they drive while talking?
Sorry I kicked you out of the house for cheating on me with my best friend. (What? Who said that?!) You’ll be glad to know that it’s been months since I talked on my phone while driving…about three and a half months, actually!
ah, matt, don’t be such a granny driver :)
but for the most part I agree. and I hate it when people are trying to order coffee and they can’t get of their stupid phone long enough to acknowledge the fact that I exist and am providing them a service.
I should clarify that I still answer calls while I’m in the car, but I tell whoever calls me that I’ll call them back once I get to where I’m going. I suppose I would pull over to the side of the road if the call was an emergency and I absolutely had to talk.