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Let's Laugh: Bugs in our Ears
Let's Laugh: Bugs in our Ears
By: Caroline Reid
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Posted by caroline Thu Jun 5, 2008 08:13:09 PDT
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July 1, 2008 is the day cell phone users over age 18 in California will go around with what looks like a big bug connected to their ear. On that day drivers can be cited for using a cell phone unless they have the hands free do-dad. I cannot even begin to tell you how many times I’ve been tempted to swat the big bug on someone’s ear. Finally, however, I’ve become accustomed to it and also to people walking around talking to what seems like the air.
As of July 1, if you are 18 or younger, you can’t even use a cell phone while driving. I wonder about the law sometimes. Whoever came up with the “hands free” law should have gone one step further and included texting. That’s all 18 year olds and younger do anyhow. I have seen them holding a phone on the steering wheel, inputting txt msgs and rng rd lts.
Kids who drive and make the decision to put their phone under the front seat while doing so should get a medal. It would be nice if we didn’t need laws to enforce common sense. Will anyone take my advice? No! Well, maybe some will. I imagine those who want to plan a future and live another 60 or so years will.
Cell phones are inter-generational. At the nursery the other day I ran into a friend. We were chatting about kids, grandkids and gardens, when her phone rang. I heard her say, “Yes. When? What time? OK, I’ll be there.”
She apologized to me and said, “This is not a cell phone. It is a ‘grandma tracker’.”
We agreed to shop together for a few minutes – at the phone store and get hands free ear thing-a-majigs. We would not want to miss out on a grandma opportunity.
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Sat Jun 14, 2008 04:23:55 PDT
Texting is included in Minnesota under 18 law. The other day, at a stop light, a young woman was talking on her cell phone & a cigarette in the other hand. Her front end was smashed in(not her, the car). I wonder how that happened?
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