> On 2008-09-06 21:00:13 -0500, "Paul Stevens" bellsouth.net> said:
>

>> "Faye" att.net> wrote in message
>> news:e1cfc668-e385-47bd-9fd6-ab1e468238a8@k7g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...

>>> Paul Stevens wrote:

>>>> Today, I saw a guy jogging down the street, holding his cellphone to
>>>> his
>>>> ear and carrying on a conversation with somebody.
>>>>
>>>> Why don't these people just go ahead and get it over with and find a
>>>> surgeon who will surgically implant the dang thing in their head?

>>>
>>> I'll *call* your jogger and raise you one guy driving an 18-wheeler
>>> holding his cellphone to his ear with one hand while with the other
>>> hand making a very tight turn in heavy four lane traffic from 431 onto
>>> 41 in Springfield yesterday.
>>>
>>> Faye
>>>

>>
>> In the past week, I've seen drivers stopped at green lights talking on a
>> cellphone (must have been too much trouble to notice when the light
>> changed) and traffic backed up behind them (the horns eventually tore
>> their attention away from the cellphone), drivers on the interstate with
>> a cellphone held to their ear with one hand while waving their other hand
>> around to add emphasis to their conversation, and one SUV driver who
>> made a left turn into a driveway, then started backing out (to turn
>> around)
>> without noticing the traffic coming from their right (the cellphone was
>> held
>> to their right ear). When the traffic slammed on their brakes and laid
>> on
>> their horn, the SUV/cellphone driver turned to their right, saw that the
>> traffic had managed to stop, then continued backing out across both
>> lanes.

>
> They'll all be voting Republican.
>