I Can Be So Juvenile at Times...

[Gogar]

Thanks for typing yammering those two extra times just for me, bud.

[speeder]

WRT the WA. state cell phone law, it's pretty cut and dry. Using a speaker phone held in your hand is legal. There is no "spirit of the law" here...they could have written it any way they wanted. You may not like the law, (and obviously you don't), but if your arguments with scooter were about the law itself, he is right and you are wrong.

You would not even need a traffic lawyer for this one, it's right there in black and white.

I've been thinking about this subject the last couple days because of this thread. I do think that talking on a phone is a distraction while driving but so are a dozen other things and many are a lot worse, IMO. Yes, cell phone use has made people who are already bad drivers a lot worse but I don't think that they make good drivers who use common sense dangerous.

There were people turning left in front of MCs way before the cell phone came along. Was the person who tagged you and your wife yapping on a phone? I'm a pretty vigilant person about safe driving and I can honestly say that cell phone use is low on my list of personal distractions. I get WAAAY more distracted, (momentarily), by all of the smoking hot women walking down the sidewalk or stepping into or out of their parked cars in this town. It's absolutely non-stop. My best friend devised the technique years ago for not rear-ending the car in front of you on the Sunset strip while in heavy traffic: You turn your head to look and slightly brake at the same time/turn head back to windshield/if all clear, you get one more quick look. It's brake/turn head/turn head back/one more look. If you're good, you get 2 quick looks w/o driving into the car in front of you.

I also get momentarily distracted by hot cars or bikes, anything that catches my eye. Knock on wood but I haven't been in an accident, much less caused one in decades of daily city driving and LD trips. i remember getting my license in 1976 and telling my friend who was a couple years older that I did not think that I could drive safely while listening to my favorite Led Zep or Black Sabbath at the preferred volume, 90db+. He told me that once I got a little experience under my belt, it would not make any difference if there was loud music playing in the car. And he was right. I love listening to music in the car and still do to this day.

I don't like talking on the phone while driving because I cannot pay attention to the phone call. My primary focus is on the driving. I answer some calls but keep it brief. I mostly text now days and DO NOT text while driving. If my cell phone use was causing a dangerous distraction, and I'd know it by near collisions, etc., I would not use it at all. There are times when out on the open road when it presents no danger at all. It's all common sense but unfortunately some people don't have any.

[speeder]

Just a heads up: Changing someone's words in a quote will get you banned. That one is written pretty plainly-no lawyer needed to decipher.

[onewhippedpuppy]

A former coworker hit another car head on while checking out a hottie sunbathing in the park. Turns out the other driver had been doing the same thing and they drifted into the center. The cop, unwilling to put "distracted by hot chick" in his report, instead stated that they were avoiding a dog and called it no fault.

[herr_oberst]

[2porscheguy]

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

How dare you make such a common sense suggestion on this forum. I made this very suggestion to one of our (formerly) well respected contributors, and one that is a motor officer at that - one that admits to cell phone use when driving. A guy who has undoubtedly responded to collisions resulting from cell phone use. His response? He got very angry, said some vile things about me, and left in a huff. A number of the other sooper jeenyuses that we are blessed with on this forum had similar reactions to any afront to the god-given right to yammer away on their cells while driving. You will never get through to any of these guys, nor will I.

.....definitely need thick skin to be hangin around this joint!

[2porscheguy]

Originally Posted by SiberianDVM

Was this in Canada? If so, amazing.

I thought Canucks were perfect!

Ya, can you farkin believe it! Even up in this frozen wasteland will you find some major asshooooles!

[Shaun @ Tru6]

[Don Ro]

A nifty way to get dogs adopted.

[island911]

Originally Posted by speeder
Just a heads up: Changing someone's words in a quote will not necessarily get you banned. That one maybe written pretty plainly-no lawyer needed to decipher- But in practice, there are countless exceptions made by the observant moderators..

Fixed it for ya. Wuha...

Hey, maybe lobby the mod's to search 'FIFY' and start the massive bans.

Now, what about driving while getting a BJ? what are the laws on that? ...maybe she's held 10" away it's okay?

[Buckterrier]

Originally Posted by island911

[I]...maybe she's held 10" away it's okay?

She'd only have to be 9" away with me

[Don Ro]

You've heard the old story as to why women have no sense of distance, haven't you?

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally Posted by Don Ro

You've heard the old story as to why women have no sense of distance, haven't you?

do tell!

[Don Ro]

Because all their lives they've been told that this is nine inches.
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[Shaun @ Tru6]

[Don Ro]

That's supposed to be a 3" rule...pretend that it is for the joke's sake.