Nationwide Cell Phone Ban? - Page 4

DanaC · 01-15-2009, 02:04 PM

Can't you just set your phone to go to message after 1 ring?

Pie · 01-15-2009, 02:18 PM

But it's like a gazillion key-strokes to get it back to vm-after-5-rings. I want a shortcut. </whine>

classicman · 01-15-2009, 02:30 PM

I'm sure your mom will be ok with the "I'm just trying to be safe" rationale.

Pie · 01-15-2009, 02:39 PM

You don't know Mom!

Cicero · 01-15-2009, 02:53 PM

Once I realized our dependence on our cell phones, and the completely impulsive feeling that we have to respond to them immediately, I quit.

I would hear the ring and hop to!

Now I put it on vibrate. When I check it, is when I check it. I am not going to be a slave to a f'ing phone.

It stays in my bag and I check it a couple of times a day. That's it.

TheMercenary · 01-15-2009, 03:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cicero

Once I realized our dependence on our cell phones, and the completely impulsive feeling that we have to respond to them immediately, I quit.

I would hear the ring and hop to!

Now I put it on vibrate. When I check it, is when I check it. I am not going to be a slave to a f'ing phone.

It stays in my bag and I check it a couple of times a day. That's it.

I have to admit that is what I do as well. I like my crackberry so I can check my personal em from work, something they blocked last year, and now I only turn it on when I want to make a call or check mail. Other wise I keep it off more than on. Drives the wife crazy.

tw · 03-15-2009, 06:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cicero

Once I realized our dependence on our cell phones, and the completely impulsive feeling that we have to respond to them immediately, I quit.

History repeats itself. When phones first arrived, a bell would ring, and people would get up and run. Pavlov's dog? Somehow we call that behavior a higher standard of living? Or are we just trained to think that way?

At least I don’t droll when my phone rings.

capnhowdy · 01-15-2009, 04:49 PM

Maybe this should be another thread (forgive me) but when is someone going to notice the video screens on everybody's dashes? Cheese&rice! Talk ABOUT a distraction.

Aliantha · 01-15-2009, 04:50 PM

Those things are illegal here. They can only be installed in the back.

ETA: Cheese risotto is delicious!

Pie · 01-15-2009, 05:51 PM

Are you talking about GPS navigation screens, Cap?
Those are getting more common.

capnhowdy · 01-15-2009, 06:02 PM

Maybe I am. I thought I was following a dude the other day while he was watching a movie. He was all over the road.
Damn. I need to get out more.

Aliantha · 01-15-2009, 06:39 PM

You're allowed GPS screens in the front, but not DVD players etc. We have a GPS system. It's pretty helpful sometimes. It lives in the glovebox though till we're going somewhere and we don't know the way.

Sundae · 01-16-2009, 11:02 AM

I was taught to be a defensive driver (drive like no-one else knows the rules of the road).
It wasn't a big shock for me - I grew up a pedestrian, and you had to assume that the driver had not seen the red light at the crossing, had not seen you on a zebra crossing (where pedestrians have right of way) had not bothered to signal before they turned into the road you were crossing etc etc.

I was always very pedestrian conscious as a driver, simply because I had been one for 24 years. It also made me healthily conscious of other drivers.

I am not perfect. The first day I drove alone - day after I passed my test - I was reading a text message while waiting at lights. Not only did I fail to notice the light change, I also left my handbrake on when I tried to pull away. Another time I was changing the station on the radio while waiting to pull out into traffic, I saw a cyclist at the last minute and reversed - into the front of a car that wasn't there when I last checked the mirror. But I learned.

The truth is, it doesn't matter how familiar the road is, how great a driver you are, how well equipped with safety features your car is - there can be an idiot driver, a stray child, an animal, an old person... the unexpected. Wtach the road. Concentrate. Then at least it won't be your fault if it does happen. And it does - to millions of people a year.

capnhowdy · 01-16-2009, 06:23 PM

"Concentrate. Then at least it won't be your fault if it does happen. And it does - to millions of people a year."

I just think about baseball.

classicman · 03-14-2009, 11:33 PM

NYPD CELL PHONE CRACKDOWN

Quote:

New York City police issued a whopping 9,016 tickets during a 24-hour crackdown on phoning-while-driving.

Department spokesman Paul Browne says that compares to 500 on a typical day.

The ticket blitz ended Friday. But the law is still the law.

Get caught driving while using a hand held phone and you could be fined $120.

Taxi drivers are held to an even higher standard. They can receive a $200 summons from the Taxi and Limousine Commission for using even a hands-free phone while driving.

Well thats a start.

01-15-2009, 02:18 PM	#2
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	But it's like a gazillion key-strokes to get it back to vm-after-5-rings. I want a shortcut. </whine> __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

01-15-2009, 02:30 PM	#3
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	I'm sure your mom will be ok with the "I'm just trying to be safe" rationale. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

01-15-2009, 02:39 PM	#4
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	You don't know Mom! __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

01-15-2009, 02:53 PM	#5
Cicero Looking forward to open mic night. Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: New Mexico Posts: 5,148	Once I realized our dependence on our cell phones, and the completely impulsive feeling that we have to respond to them immediately, I quit. I would hear the ring and hop to! Now I put it on vibrate. When I check it, is when I check it. I am not going to be a slave to a f'ing phone. It stays in my bag and I check it a couple of times a day. That's it. __________________ Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.- Carl Jung

01-15-2009, 04:49 PM	#8
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	Maybe this should be another thread (forgive me) but when is someone going to notice the video screens on everybody's dashes? Cheese&rice! Talk ABOUT a distraction. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

01-15-2009, 02:04 PM	#1
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Can't you just set your phone to go to message after 1 ring?

01-15-2009, 04:50 PM	#9
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	Those things are illegal here. They can only be installed in the back. ETA: Cheese risotto is delicious! __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

01-15-2009, 05:51 PM	#10
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	Are you talking about GPS navigation screens, Cap? Those are getting more common. __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

01-15-2009, 06:02 PM	#11
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	Maybe I am. I thought I was following a dude the other day while he was watching a movie. He was all over the road. Damn. I need to get out more. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

01-15-2009, 06:39 PM	#12
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	You're allowed GPS screens in the front, but not DVD players etc. We have a GPS system. It's pretty helpful sometimes. It lives in the glovebox though till we're going somewhere and we don't know the way. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

01-16-2009, 11:02 AM	#13
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	I was taught to be a defensive driver (drive like no-one else knows the rules of the road). It wasn't a big shock for me - I grew up a pedestrian, and you had to assume that the driver had not seen the red light at the crossing, had not seen you on a zebra crossing (where pedestrians have right of way) had not bothered to signal before they turned into the road you were crossing etc etc. I was always very pedestrian conscious as a driver, simply because I had been one for 24 years. It also made me healthily conscious of other drivers. I am not perfect. The first day I drove alone - day after I passed my test - I was reading a text message while waiting at lights. Not only did I fail to notice the light change, I also left my handbrake on when I tried to pull away. Another time I was changing the station on the radio while waiting to pull out into traffic, I saw a cyclist at the last minute and reversed - into the front of a car that wasn't there when I last checked the mirror. But I learned. The truth is, it doesn't matter how familiar the road is, how great a driver you are, how well equipped with safety features your car is - there can be an idiot driver, a stray child, an animal, an old person... the unexpected. Wtach the road. Concentrate. Then at least it won't be your fault if it does happen. And it does - to millions of people a year.

01-16-2009, 06:23 PM	#14
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	"Concentrate. Then at least it won't be your fault if it does happen. And it does - to millions of people a year." I just think about baseball. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

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