Comments on: More drive-drive, less jaw-jaw

By: Ruthie

Ruthie — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:07:27 +0000

Time to change the message on your cell phone?

“…Thank you for your message, which has been added to an automatic queuing system. You are currently in 352nd place, and can expect to receive a reply in approximately 19 weeks.”

By: montysano

montysano — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:25:21 +0000

I’m with Tbogg: I just don’t care to talk on the phone.

On a recent major grocery run, I walked in next to a young person who was talking on a cell phone. Throug every aisle, the produce section, the bakery, checkout, and back to the parking lot, the phone never left the ear. That’s a long time to hold a microwave radiator next to your brain.

By: TheOtherWA

TheOtherWA — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:36:54 +0000

Ha!

By: TheOtherWA

TheOtherWA — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:28:52 +0000

WA just put the same law into effect, but with a $124 fine. I don’t think hands free makes any difference. People talking on the phone aren’t concentrating on their driving.

By: GWPDA

GWPDA — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:24:23 +0000

I tried to take my phone with me in the car, but the cord didn’t reach far enough. Besides, dialing is pretty difficult when you can’t see where the holes are.

By: BOHICA

BOHICA — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:47:58 +0000

Now that you are about to be assimilated, what will be your Borg name?

By: ckls

ckls — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:24:36 +0000

What you need is blue tooth visor phone — hands free, and much easier than those ear clip thingys.

http://www.google.com/search?q.....=firefox-a

By: TomHilton

TomHilton — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:55:38 +0000

Amen. It’s too bad they’re punished with just a piddly-ass $25 fine, though. People with no regard for human life should at least be waterboarded or something.

Meanwhile, I’m hoping the Assembly gets around to passing my bill requiring all cell phone users to have their own personal Cone of Silence when talking in public.

By: steverino

steverino — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:22:04 +0000

I have a flip-phone and use the lid to hold the phone on my seatbelt across my chest like a clip. That lets me hear it over the stereo when it rings, and I use the speakerphone feature to talk. Even on my chest it works well enough. Still have to open it to answer and activate the speaker, or to dial, so it’s not a perfect solution, but it has the advantage of not costing $120+.

By: makeitstop

makeitstop — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:49:43 +0000

Too much pressure on my farsighted eyes to dial the damned thing and not run into the car in front of me. As Boomers age, we have 3 choices:
1. learn to program the cell for voice-activated calling
2. get one of those sad giant key versions as seen in ads in senior-friendly magazines (I saw it at the doctors office, honest!)
3. leave the thing turned off and feign ignorance that it was in said state when confronted by the inevitable “I TRIED to call you!”

A buddy of mine just got one with text messaging. The last time he came over he spent the whole time furiously texting; not only was it annoying, it was rather pathetic at how this little device had sucked him into an alternate universe.