Comments on: No texting while driving? WTH will I do now? http://debralegg.com/2009/01/03/text-messaging-while-driving/ 9to5to9: A working mom's mad adventures in boy land Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:41:33 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Debra http://debralegg.com/2009/01/03/text-messaging-while-driving/#comment-900 Debra Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:53:29 +0000 http://debralegg.com/?p=4049#comment-900 A Bluetooth simply takes too much finger-brain coordination for me. The one time I seriously tried it was in my kitchen -- for some odd reason probably related to having two kids, I tend to need hands-free more at home than in the car -- and I wound up tapping "redial" instead of "hang up" before I took the thing out of my ear and sat it on the counter. Where it proceeded to redial my mom for the next 20 minutes. Luckily, we still had a land line back then, so she was able to call and find out what was going on. Otherwise, she would have alerted the National Guard. Also luckily, I hadn't said anything insulting while our kitchen chatter was hitting her live. :) A Bluetooth simply takes too much finger-brain coordination for me.

The one time I seriously tried it was in my kitchen — for some odd reason probably related to having two kids, I tend to need hands-free more at home than in the car — and I wound up tapping “redial” instead of “hang up” before I took the thing out of my ear and sat it on the counter. Where it proceeded to redial my mom for the next 20 minutes.

Luckily, we still had a land line back then, so she was able to call and find out what was going on. Otherwise, she would have alerted the National Guard. Also luckily, I hadn’t said anything insulting while our kitchen chatter was hitting her live. :)

]]> By: ParentingPink http://debralegg.com/2009/01/03/text-messaging-while-driving/#comment-892 ParentingPink Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:57:42 +0000 http://debralegg.com/?p=4049#comment-892 Oh, thank God there is someone else out there that doesn't know how to use a Bluetooth (even though I too have one) and is "mentally challenged" when it comes to texting! LOL Actually, here outside DC, texting & celling while driving is still legal, but in the district, it's not. So everytime we "cross the line" we have to pull out the bluetooth's - not an easy feat for my hubby since he commutes there frequently. Sorry you Californians lost your ability to text while driving, but hey, at least you won't have to deal with the Brittany Spears drivers who text constantly and cause accidents. LOL Oh, thank God there is someone else out there that doesn’t know how to use a Bluetooth (even though I too have one) and is “mentally challenged” when it comes to texting! LOL

Actually, here outside DC, texting & celling while driving is still legal, but in the district, it’s not. So everytime we “cross the line” we have to pull out the bluetooth’s – not an easy feat for my hubby since he commutes there frequently.

Sorry you Californians lost your ability to text while driving, but hey, at least you won’t have to deal with the Brittany Spears drivers who text constantly and cause accidents. LOL

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