Apr

25

Being aware

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Whenever I am out on the street and my cell phone rings or I get a text message, I always make sure I pay attention to my surroundings while using the phone. I will usually stop where I am and talk or reply to a text message. I never continue walking in case I am distracted, I certainly won’t try and negotiate my way across a road while on the phone.

Getting across the street under normal circumstances can sometimes be precarious. In France I have had to rush back across a pedestrian crossing because I realized the crazy French drivers who were hurtling towards me had no intentions of stopping to allow me to cross.

Here in the States I have been in the middle of a crossing on the “Walk” signal when a guy in a Dodge Ram turned left and run me down, luckily he stopped so he didn’t go right over me. I only chipped a bone in my left hand from that so consider myself fortunate.

So I certainly won’t let the cell phone be a distraction that could endanger my life.

Unfortunately an item on the local news the other night shows how a cell phone can be a dangerous distraction. A girl was walking alongside railway tracks talking on her phone. So engrossed in the conversation she never heard a guy in his truck blaring his horn at her or the train driver sounding his horn as a warning to her, she walked right in front of the train and was killed.

No phone call is that important you can’t call back at a safer time. Don’t get me started on drivers who drive while talking on their cell phones!

Oh, Carolyn’s birthday is coming up next week, time to check out a gift basket methinks.

Sep

24

Cell phone no not me

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Sitting on the bus I had my cell phone out and was switching it from vibrate to ring, a girl got on the bus she seems stoned and out of it. I dropped th phone into my messenger bag and my stop was fast approaching. I heard the girl asking other passengers if they had a cell phone she could use.

I make the point of not lending my phone out and as my stop was approaching i didn’t someone to start using it then having to grab it off them while I got off the bus. She came up besides me and asked if I had a phone she could borrow, I said I didn’t. I thought, crap now I know what will happen.

I got up to get off the bus and as I thought my wife text messages me, my phone now off vibrate starts ringing, I can feel the girl’s eyes burning into my back, oh well! Least it didn’t happen while I was sitting there telling the girl i didn’t have a phone.
Was I bad?

In other news, I am currently reading Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis, I found it easier to get into than some of his other books.

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Jul

19

A novel hands-free phone spotted

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On the bus I saw a woman drive by who was using her cell phone but hand both hands on the steering wheel. She wasn’t using any hands-free device though.

She was wearing a headscarf, she had her flip cell phone jammed in the side of the scarf so she could talk on it. Looked weird with the large silver phone jutting out the side of her face. Novel idea and no spendy hands-free device needed.

Of course if it had been a guy driving then he would’ve had the phone stuck to the side of his head with duct tape.