Re: Cagers with telephones are oblivious

oasysco wrote:
I know it's been said a hundred times by a hundred people, but
cagers
who talk on cell phones are oblivious to driving. Why it's still
legal, I don't know.

In this state it's not. They do it anyway. Such laws aren't really
enforceable--the police can't be everywhere.

This AM on the way to work... a lady in a tank-sized SUV with her
head
tilted towards the driver's side window had a phone glued to her
ear.
She had the ROW on a turn, but she didn't see me although I was
stopped in front of her waiting for her to make her turn. She never
looked left or right she was so embedded in her conversation. Kids
are
out and about at that time of the morning. I'm glad none were trying
to cross the street at that particular moment.

Last weekend, pulling into a joint parking lot shared between Sam's
Club and Walmart. Crowded 4-way intersection that feeds into another
crowded 3-way intersection.

I'm in the innermost 4-way intersection. Everybody but me has a stop
sign. I have the ROW, but knowing this particular intersection, I'm
all too willing to yield it if needed.

A lady pulls out into the intersection just as I arrive; she had
time
to clear the intersection before I entered. Another lady stopped
behind her at a stop sign, pulls out as I'm going through the
intersection. I blared my horn - and it's loud, but I'm prepared to
stop and end up stopping right in the middle of the intersection as
she pulls in front of me, my horn still blaring.

She looks up at me totally oblivious to the fact that she had a stop
sign and I didn't. She had her head actually laying against the
driver's side window with a cell phone, talking a mile a minute as
if
she was angry with whomever was on the other end.

None of these were close calls since I'm always on the lookout for
facial expressions, cell phones, wheels moving and the like, but it
still irks me that the use of cell phones without handsfree
connections are still legal in a moving vehicle.

When I'm in a car, I ignore my cell phone, if I have it on me at
all.

Cell phones are worse than shaving, eating, and putting make up on
due
to the fact that everybody has a cell phone.

Greg

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