Driving and Your Cell (Phone, Not AP Bio)
Pay attention: you cannot use your cell phone while driving.
One more time: YOU CANNOT USE YOUR CELL WHILE DRIVING. If you’re 18 or older and using a hands-free device, that’s one thing, BUT ONLY THEN, AND IT’S STILL A BAD IDEA.
If you want to gab with Betty Sue (man, what decade do we think it is?), have Mom drive and you sit in the passenger seat. If you’re not driving, gab away all you want. Text. Sext. Shmext. Whatever. But talking on a cell is strictly forbidden. And again, think about what happens statistically: you are 2-3x more likely to hit some innocent person on the road if you are talking on your cell while you’re driving. Isn’t it fair to have a law that protects that innocent person? Why is your setting up a date with Harry more important than Aunt Shari’s health and that of the baby she is carrying in her stomach? Oh, Aunt Shari had her baby? Congratulations! We should send a card…
Exceptions: some medical emergency or you’re calling the cops on someone or some other obvious “don’t think we are complete idiots” kind of exception. See a fire or an explosion? Call the fire department. Duh.