Tony Raven said:dkahn400 said:
When the law came in I noticed a significant reduction but it didn't
last very long. It seems to be as bad and as blatant as ever now that
motorists realise they're almost certain to get away with it.
Some people just cannot resist answering a ringing phone. I hate it in
shops or hotels where someone will break off a conversation to answer
the phone - why should the phone take priority over the conversation I
was in middle of? Likewise mobiles ringing in the car. I let mine
ring. It logs who was calling so I can call them back later but it
seems most people cannot resist the opportunity for some human contact
down a phone.
Yeah, it's funny that. I've been conciously trying not to answer the phone
if I'm busy doing something else, well at home, anyway, sadly I can't really
at work. It's difficult, though, and I'm not sure why. Perhaps it's a
hangover from the days when phones were relatively rarely used, and so if
you got a call it was probably something you wanted to know about. Or
perhaps it's the nagging worry that it might be something important, and
seeing as you have no way of knowing what it's better to answer. It's the
same in the car, although I don't answer it I always worry that perhaps I
should have (it sits almost unreachable in my jeans pocket so I can't easily
pull it out and look at the display avan if I wanted to).
It helps that I don't get many calls, though. If I'm in the car it's
always my missus or the kids wanting a pint of milk on the way home,
or whatever. At home, it's never for me anyway, because I have teenage
daughters and the phone isn't mine even though I thought it was, as do BT
every month when they send me the bill.
Sigh. One of them would spend her life on the bloody thing if we let her.
Sadly, for her, we don't though.
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Trevor Barton
