[Shotimes] driving pet peeves

[James White]

Streange as it may be, the cops around here are also cell phone "junkies" 
while driving.  

A couple of trips to the home center and I every cop that I spotted 
was yaking on the cell.

Seems as if we taxpayers haven't opted for the extra bucks for a 
secure police radio, so these guys seem to think that their conversation 
is so important that they have to use their cell....

I have had a cell phone for 19 years and when the conversation requires 
some thought, I always find a spot to stop, or say that I can't talk 
and will call back...

Driving is much more fun than talking on the cell..

regards, Jim White


At Sunday, 7 May 2006, "Dave Garber" <dave.garber@comcast.net> wrote:

>Well, my feeling is that folks notice they are using a cell phone 
because
>they are driving like assmunches (you tend to look over at the a-
hole when
>you pass 'em in disgust). It might not be the cell phone usage itself 
that
>is causing the poor driving, but it seems that most poor drivers 
any more
>are also yapping along on the cell phone. It's the whole walking 
and chewing
>gum syndrome - only in this case, it's while operating a two ton 
missile!
>
>Now that I am commuting to the city every day, by the time I get 
home from
>work I am thoroughly PISSED and spent from dealing with all the 
dipshits out
>there. Women are BY FAR the worst drivers on the planet (or certainly 
in the
>Pitts area! They drive their cars as though they are sitting at 
home on the
>couch - doing makeup, eating and yapping away on the cell phone)!!! And
>before any women on the list cry foul, I've been taking my fianci 
to work
>the last two weeks - ask her who the worst drivers are! She used 
to argue
>with me until seeing what I see on a daily basis. A close second 
are old
>folks...
>
>If I was a State Trooper, I could work non-stop from start of shift 
to end
>of shift around here.
>
>Dave Garber
>Pittsburgh, PA
>99 White, 97k
>99 Silver, 81k
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ron Porter" <ronporter@ameritech.net>
>To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 9:57 PM
>Subject: RE: [Shotimes] driving pet peeves
>
>> I don't at all agree with #1. People are bad-enough drivers anyway. I
>think
>> that has become the "pet" excuse for folks today (or a complaint 
of folks
>> who don't have a cell phone!). Just driving with a cellphone doesn't
>produce
>> bad situations. Besides, I rarely notice folks using cell phones.
..why
>are
>> all of these people nosing into what's going on in cars next to 
them??
>Same
>> with #9.
>>
>> Ron Porter
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