As long as I am on pet peeves (see previous entry on "polls"--on no "issue" am I more clearly right), consider the small news item today on cell phones (I still don't own one, despite their obvious uses; but the things are annoying in the extreme).
A girl was concentrating on her cell phone as she was walking across the railroad tracks. As the Paul Harvey radio report put it (without Paul Harvery), she WAS 17.
I actually shop at Wal-Mart. It is astounding the number of women--there, and elsewhere--who are walking without paying any attention to where they are going, because they are on cell phones. Maybe men do the same thing, but I just don't notice it as much (or are not in the right place to see it). But the number of women who expect everyone to get out of their way as they walk blindly ahead talking on a cell phone is truly astounding.
There is no doubt the things are dangerous--especially if you assume that you can pay attention to a cell phone at the same time you are doing something else that requires you to observe your surroundings.
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