Thread: Cell Phones

Originally Posted by GrayMan

Yes they are texting in the car, but it will increase the amount of people texting because they don't want the cops to see. Just wait and see The accidents caused by people texting and driving WILL go up and then you will think differently.

Something tells me the same kinds of arguments were floating around when the started passing laws against drinking and driving.

Originally Posted by Sunshine

Your statement is ludicrous.

And yours was not?

Who would answer the phone while their patient is dying? Do you have any better reasons to take away a cell phone from a person at work, if he only answers calls on his break?

Originally Posted by GrayMan

Cell Phone laws are stupid.

They probably are for the reasons you outline so well below.

I think the truth of the matter is that cell phones make people stupid.

If I had to own a cell phone I wouldn't;

1. Answer it or talk on it in my car, unless I was the passenger.

2. Take it to work, unless owning and carrying it was part of my work.

3. Have a conversation on it in public unless I was far enough away from others that they couldn't hear my end of the conversation.

Originally Posted by GrayMan

They may even increase the amount of accidents.

First of all, when you threaten to punish kids for talking on their cell phones they start texting on it somewhere you can't see.
That is the last thing we want, our kids texting and driving. At least when they talk on their cell phones they can see the road.

With texting most kids don't need to look to type, but they will not be able to watch the road and read a text message at the same time.

Also, talking on the cell phone in the car is no more distracting then talking to the passenger. Are they going to make that illegal too?

Doubtful.

Originally Posted by GrayMan

And yours was not?

Who would answer the phone while their patient is dying? Do you have any better reasons to take away a cell phone from a person at work, if he only answers calls on his break?

I will not even answer your question. One day it will be answered for you. Of course you may not be around to understand it.

Originally Posted by Captain Trips

I have a solution for both of you

It will be fun to.

Once.

Get yourself a hammer.

Take yourself and your walkie talkie outside on to a paved surface somewhere.

Smash that ridiculous device into little flat peices. Don't allow yourself to buy another one. Ever.

Please don't tell me; "I couldn't live without it."

Humans have lived without walkie squackies until just a few short years ago, you'll be fine

Now why would I need a solution if I don't have a problem?

As for getting rid of the cell, nope, it's much more convenient than a land line, which I got rid of a couple of years ago.

Originally Posted by GrayMan

I used to talk on my self phone while driving. It was part of my job, to offer technical assistance. Later a law passed preventing me from doing so. I have never had a ticket, nor have I been in an accident. I have had no problems with cell phones distracting me while driving. I have had more problems talking to the person next to me in the passenger seat because I tend to look at them while I talk to them. The little time it takes me to look at the person I am talking to could be very moment that a deer decided to pop out in front of me. Even if you made a law for every distracting thing that a drive might do while driving, you'll never prevent all the accidents. In the end it is the driver that is the problem not the cell phone.

You sound like Joe Alcoholic at the local bar talking about how unfair and ridiculous DUI laws are.

Originally Posted by Mrs. M

Now why would I need a solution if I don't have a problem?

You own a cell phone, you have a problem, unless it's a requirement of your job of course.

Originally Posted by Captain Trips

You own a cell phone, you have a problem, unless it's a requirement of your job of course.

I get my internet through my cell, no cell, no USPOL.

Originally Posted by Captain Trips

You own a cell phone, you have a problem, unless it's a requirement of your job of course.

Now that's just stupid, Captain. It's a convenience I like, especially driving by myself late at night. When my daughter had to have an emergency C-section, I wasn't at home but I had my cell and was able to get to the hospital before she was taken to surgery.
Nowadays, it really doesn't make sense not to have a cell...hell, even my 73 year old father has one for emergencies!

But for the record, long before everyone had the cute little phones we carry now, I did have the "phone in a bag" which was required by the home health agency I worked for.

Originally Posted by Captain Trips

They probably are for the reasons you outline so well below.

I think the truth of the matter is that cell phones make people stupid.

If I had to own a cell phone I wouldn't;

1. Answer it or talk on it in my car, unless I was the passenger.

2. Take it to work, unless owning and carrying it was part of my work.

3. Have a conversation on it in public unless I was far enough away from others that they couldn't hear my end of the conversation.




Doubtful.

I've seen it all the time. A parent tells the kid to stop talking on his cell phone and he sticks it in his pocket and continues to type with it in his pocket.

Originally Posted by Sunshine

I will not even answer your question. One day it will be answered for you. Of course you may not be around to understand it.

Is that code for "I can't come up with a good reason".

Originally Posted by Captain Trips

I think the truth of the matter is that cell phones make people stupid.

Me offering technical assitance over the cell phone is making the other guy on his cell dumber by the second. :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by Mrs. M

Now that's just stupid, Captain.

Really ?

Or rather, is it stupid that we are coming to make ourselves beleive that we cannot live without such conveniences ?

Originally Posted by Mrs. M

It's a convenience I like, especially driving by myself late at night. When my daughter had to have an emergency C-section, I wasn't at home but I had my cell and was able to get to the hospital before she was taken to surgery.
Nowadays, it really doesn't make sense not to have a cell...hell, even my 73 year old father has one for emergencies!

But for the record, long before everyone had the cute little phones we carry now, I did have the "phone in a bag" which was required by the home health agency I worked for.

Yes, it's a convenience not a necessity.

Lets remember that every convenience comes with a cost. Things always balance themselves out whether we choose to admit it or recognize it or not