People, people. The Bee's been writing incessantly about the new cell phone law, TV's had it, the cell phone stores have had tons of ads in The Bee with great deals. Lisa Maria Boyles, my tech-savvy colleague, even blogged about her experience buying a hands-free device. There have been illuminated road signs like in the photo, right.
And yet, there they go getting busted on the very . . first . . .day! What were they possibly thinking? In today's Bee story, the Fresno police reported issuing 72 citations to drivers for talking on hand-held cell phones and Clovis officers nabbed 22. What do you think? OK, fess up. Did you or someone you know get caught? What happened? Did you forget? Is your hands-free too much of a hassle?
The best quote of the day was in our story: "Quite a few cell phones were tossed to the floor, so we're thinking that cell phone repair might be the business to be in," said Fresno Sgt. Dave Gibeault. Sgt. Dave, you're funny. We like that in a police officer. Sometimes.
There's a lot of money to be made from this law, I've decided. I keep reading how the cell phone people are already making a killing in the sales of hands-free devices and now, maybe they had better beef up the service department as well. Hey, Bee Classified works!
We carry the cell-phone in the car for emergency only.
Fortunately we never had to use it.
But isn't the devil always looking around for idle hands? That's why the communication industry wanted to help us to get into heaven. Unfortunately, sooner than some folk wanted it.
I am using my headset and it is hard to get used to but I will use it anyway. I often leave my phone in the car and getting out of range. I saw a cheap hands free thing that had the phone up on your ear held in place by a large rubber band around the head. It was quite funny.