In article , Dave Hinz says...

Great. If my boss required me to do something illegal, it'd be a
problem then, wouldn't it. Plenty of stupid laws on the books Jim,
wouldn't you agree? Doesn't mean there's logic behind them.

You don't get it. I *don't* think it's a stupid law.

What I think is stupid is this: folks driving around
and talking on the phone, endangering other road users.
Does your personal use do that? I can't say one way or
the other, and for the purposes of usenet I'm perfectly
willing to admit that you are one of the concientious
ones who takes great pains to not become distracted
and cause accidents.

However that does put you in a one-percenter catagory,
because all the other folks who I see weaving around
on the road and being total jerks invariably have a
phone glued to their ear. So I think the law is a
great idea. I just wish they'd start enforcing the darn
thing.

And yes, I think things *have* gotten worse since the
advent of cell phones. Used to be I would see a driver
per week on the Taconic doing something moronic. Reading
a newspaper, using an eyelash curler. Now it's about once
a day and it's always a cell phone. It's gotten to the
point that I try to alert the phone user to my presence
now right away, before riding near to them. Phone means horn
now.

I think that cell phone use has actually reduced the number
of cases of DWI because most drunks cannot manage to talk
on their phone and start their car at the same time. And
if they do they usually crash in the parking lot before
they make it to a public street.

Jim


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