New peeve thread???

[momoffuzzyfaces]

I like music, but not your music while I am at the intersection.

Way to go Richard!!! I just want to add:
Nor do I enjoy your music when I'm in my own home trying to watch tv or nap or doing whatever I want to do. Please, keep your booming stereo basses to yourself. Just because you have made yourself deaf by all the racket, doesn't give you the right to ruin MY hearing!

I think that has to be my peevish pet peeve of all time!!!

[Cataholic]

Until the bitter end, I will defend my right to use a cell phone while driving, while walking down the street with Jonah, while sitting in a coffee house, etc. I **can** do both things at once. I have done both things at once for 6 years now, all without incident. So, maybe there are **some**people that can't, or, maybe **most** can't? I don't know, but, I can. And, I do.

My incidents involving car accidents/near misses are two: one time I backed up into an off duty police officer. I wasn't on the cell phone. Shoot, I didn't even have the radio turned on.

Second time: I WAS on the cell phone, in the library parking lot, backing out of a space, carefully. And an adult woman (not a child, teenager, etc, but an mature adult woman) RAN behind my car, despite me being in motion, with visible brake lights. SHE had the audacity to yell at ME for being on a cell phone! Uh, HELLO? I saw you, you idiot. YOU ran through a parking lot (bad idea), YOU ran behind a moving vehicle (bad idea)- I was the one that saw YOU behind my vehicle, cell phone and all! I was the one that avoided the accident, not you.

My point? Often times, the stupidity of the cell phone user is not directly related to the use of a phone. They just might be stupid all on their own. (note: I am not stupid ). Maybe they shouldn't be driving, walking, living, etc., regardless of the cell phone usage. Just a thought.

[RedHedd]

Second time: I WAS on the cell phone, in the library parking lot, backing out of a space, ...

I'm sorry, but this is a peeve of mine. on a cell phone while backing out? Hello? I even see people on cell phones while triyng to parallel park in rush hour traffic ...

[buckner]

Driving while on a cell phone may be most of your all's peeves, but there are MANY people who can manage this. There are a lot of stupid drivers out there who cause accidents, but most of those are not related to being on a cell phone.

I CAN park while on my phone, I CAN back out of my parking space while on my phone, I CAN drive down an interstate while on my phone, I CAN do almost ANYTHING while on my phone. Some people get annoyed if you don't have both hands on the wheel - I practiced with only one hand because I knew it's stupid to drive with two hands. You actually shake the car MORE when you have two hands on the wheel. So, I've learned how to drive with one hand and have another as a free hand - to talk on my phone. Again, I'm usually talking to my parents or one of my two friends who live in Pennsylvania and it's lucky if they get a chance to call me. I can't just hang up on them because people get pissed off that I'm on the phone while driving. If I CAN do it, I don't see why it should piss people off.

Heck, even my driver's ed teacher was a firm believer in having 100% devotion on the road if you were driving. But he said I'm one of those people who could manage talking on the phone and driving at the same time because I'm alert all the time. I knew how to drive before I went to him (I went for insurance purposes) and I had been driving for quite a while. He was just observing my observations.. I noticed a lot, and he was fully aware of that. And he said there are some people who can drive and talk on the phone at the same time.

So again, if I CAN do it, I don't see why it should upset people to see me driving down the road while on my cell phone. Or coming out of a parking spot.

My town is HUGE and I don't know my way around completely nor do I know the absolute short-cuts to places. So, more often than not, I'm calling my dad to ask him how to get somewhere way out. It makes no sense to pull over, ask him, and then get back on. I need to tell him where I am and I'm a hands-on learner... I won't learn if just given directions, I need to hear "take a left on Market" or "take a right on Broadway" or something.

Sorry with my rant... my peeve is when people criticize something as if EVERYONE who does it is bad, like driving while on their phones.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Well, some people can drive with their feet too, but I don't want them near me while they do it.

[Kfamr]

Well, some people can drive with their feet too, but I don't want them near me while they do it.

Heck, I saw a lady once shaving her leg, that was up over the steering wheel, and driving down US 19 - one of the most dangerous roads.

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Heck, I saw a lady once shaving her leg, that was up over the steering wheel, and driving down US 19 - one of the most dangerous roads.

is right! I had a friend who used to live in St. Pete and I remember seeing the bumper stickers when I was visiting "Pray for me - I drive on 19!"

My SIL once had to shave her arm pits in the parking lot before we went into a concert. What, like she couldn't do that at home? But then again, you have to know my SIL.....well....former SIL...and she used to be one of my peeves too and thankfully my brother wised up - thus the "former."

Buckner - no offense, but I'm with MOFF.

[caseysmom]

I do feel that when you deal with the teller at the bank, the cashier at the drive through or whatever, that person deserves for you to show respect....that means not holding another conversation at the same time.

I have talked on my cell phone while driving...I try to cut it short though...I don't understand people just on the cell phone having a conversation for the heck of it....

[shais_mom]

Well, some people can drive with their feet too, but I don't want them near me while they do it.

I totally agree with this on most cases but you must be careful when stating this b/c I knew of a guy that grew up in a town south of me that had his arms cut off from a power take off when he was younger then 2 years old and he drove a car, combine, semi, ate with his feet, wrote with his feet, welded, drilled, worked for a Tire company which involved him sitting on tractor tires and using an air drill to remove the bolts. I actually witnessed him canoeing once holding the oar in the crook of his neck. He was the first person I thought of when I read this - and thought what about people with no arms and was slightly offended (no offense Connie). Now if I tried to drive with my legs I would need a wide open space b/c I would probably take out a loooot of stuff. But there are some cases.....
Now shaving your legs while driving - ewwww
I think that rates higher then the guy I saw reading the paper driving down I-75 once.

Cataholic:
Until the bitter end, I will defend my right to use a cell phone while driving, while walking down the street

I'm with Jo on this one. A lot of times accidents are caused by cell phones yes, but accidents are also caused by drunk drivers, talking to someone IN the car with you, not paying attention at all. I am usually more careful when I am on the phone b/c I know I have to be. The times that I have pulled out in front of someone I wasn't on the phone b/c I was being careless. The time I hit a parked car in my work's parking lot (yep you read that right a PARKED car) I was NOT on my cell.
I have more of a problem with the illegal immigrants in this country driving with no license, no insurance, no green card thumbing their nose at everyone one of us that HAVE a driver's license, HAVE car licenses, and HAVE
insurance. Yes I probably feel a bit more obsessed with this since my parents and I were creamed while sitting in an intersection by the above and then the illegal passenger tried to run across a field until someone went after him and tackled him. I bet if you actually did the statistics accidents caused by illegals and people on cell phones - are probably pretty freakin close.

[Randi]

People who post 6 posts on the same thread - one after the other!

I just HAD to say that!

[slick]

I totally agree with this on most cases but you must be careful when stating this b/c I knew of a guy that grew up in a town south of me that had his arms cut off from a power take off when he was younger then 2 years old and he drove a car, combine, semi, ate with his feet, wrote with his feet, welded, drilled, worked for a Tire company which involved him sitting on tractor tires and using an air drill to remove the bolts. I actually witnessed him canoeing once holding the oar in the crook of his neck. He was the first person I thought of when I read this - and thought what about people with no arms and was slightly offended (no offense Connie). Now if I tried to drive with my legs I would need a wide open space b/c I would probably take out a loooot of stuff. But there are some cases.....
Now shaving your legs while driving - ewwww
I think that rates higher then the guy I saw reading the paper driving down I-75 once.

I'm with Jo on this one. A lot of times accidents are caused by cell phones yes, but accidents are also caused by drunk drivers, talking to someone IN the car with you, not paying attention at all. I am usually more careful when I am on the phone b/c I know I have to be. The times that I have pulled out in front of someone I wasn't on the phone b/c I was being careless. The time I hit a parked car in my work's parking lot (yep you read that right a PARKED car) I was NOT on my cell.
I have more of a problem with the illegal immigrants in this country driving with no license, no insurance, no green card thumbing their nose at everyone one of us that HAVE a driver's license, HAVE car licenses, and HAVE
insurance. Yes I probably feel a bit more obsessed with this since my parents and I were creamed while sitting in an intersection by the above and then the illegal passenger tried to run across a field until someone went after him and tackled him. I bet if you actually did the statistics accidents caused by illegals and people on cell phones - are probably pretty freakin close.

People who quote a whole post...only to reply to one little part of it....as in my example here.

[Cataholic]

I'm sorry, but this is a peeve of mine. on a cell phone while backing out? Hello? I even see people on cell phones while triyng to parallel park in rush hour traffic ...

See? Even when I explain it fully, it still isn't understood- I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG! EVEN WITH THE CELL PHONE! Uh, hello, MCFLY? The adult lady RUNNING through the parking lot was/is and forever will be, the idiot here...NOT me with a cell phone.

It is called cause and effect, proximate cause, in the legal field. My actions must be the proximate cause of the 'injury'. My actions (being on the cell phone while backing up) must be the CAUSE of the (here, potential)injury- her getting ran over by my vehicle. My being on the cell phone was NOT the proximate cause- but her (and apparently, yours, too) knee jerk reaction. Oh, the driver was on the cell phone, THAT must be the problem. Not. The problem was her running through the parking lot without looking. I, the driver, saw her (yes, even while on the cell phone, as I was looking carefully while backing). I was the one that slammed on my brakes.

Radios used to cause that same amount of flutter that cell phones do today. I see plenty of bad driving every day that is unrelated to cell phone use. People just can't grasp that there are people that can do two things at once.

Whether my call is 'important' or not is not the point. Fine if someone wants to maintain their cell phone for 'emergency use only'. Great. Or, pull over every time it rings, Great! And, maybe that person is not the type of person that can handle multi-tasking. Maybe that person is not a confident driver. Not me. I use it for every use...on my way to and from work. As it allows me 45 minutes of extra work time both ways.

As for keeping two hands on the wheel? LOL. I drive a stick. More often than not, my right hand is on the gear shift, not the wheel.

As for statistics? LOL. You know what they say about statistics...98% of them are wrong, or made up on the spot.

[Lady's Human]

Cataholic, that number came from the NHSTA study, and is backed up by other data as well.

http://www.iii.org/media/hottopics/i...ce/cellphones/

[Cataholic]

LH- I stand by my statistical analysis! 98% of statistics are made up (I didn't mean that YOU made it up, LOL).

[Cinder & Smoke]

As for keeping two hands on the wheel? ... LOL.
I drive a stick.
More often than not,
my right hand is on the gear shift, not the wheel.

So, we've got the Right handpaw on the shifter,
Left handpaw on the cell dinger ...
And we *steer* with what?


ME?
I can manage a one-handpaw cell dinger OK ...
It's those darn 2-Fisted WHOPPERS that cause the problems!
I use my Left KNEE most often!