Driving and Your Cell (Phone, Not AP Bio)
Pay attention: you should not talk on your cell phone while driving.
One more time: YOU SHOULD NOT TALK ON YOUR CELL PHONE WHILE DRIVING.
If you want to gab with Betty Sue (man, what decade do we think it is?), have Mom drive and you sit in the passenger seat. If you’re not driving, gab away all you want. Text. Sext. Shmext. Whatever. But talking on a cell is strictly gauche.
And again, think about what happens statistically: you are 2-3x more likely to hit some innocent person on the road if you are talking on your cell while you’re driving. How fair is that to that innocent person? Why is your setting up a date with Harry more important than Aunt Shari’s health and that of the baby she is carrying in her stomach? Oh, Aunt Shari had her baby? Congratulations! We should send a card…
Exceptions: some medical emergency or you’re calling the cops on someone or some other obvious “don’t think we are complete idiots” kind of exception. See a fire or an explosion? Call the fire department. Duh.
And if you’re over 18, you’re allowed to use a hands-free device, but if you’re fumbling around in the glove compartment for that hands-free device as you barrel down the highway at 65mph because you don’t want to miss that call from your cousin, you’re kinda missing the point.