Protecting yourself

On 6/7/2019 3:35 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On Friday, June 7, 2019 at 2:59:18 PM UTC-4, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Friday, June 7, 2019 at 9:23:30 AM UTC-4, duane wrote:
On 07/06/2019 8:57 a.m., Rolf Mantel wrote:
Am 07.06.2019 um 14:03 schrieb Duane:
On 06/06/2019 8:54 p.m., John B. wrote:
On Thu, 6 Jun 2019 23:12:18 -0000 (UTC), Duane wrote:

John B. wrote:
On Thu, 6 Jun 2019 12:48:44 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 6/6/2019 8:54 AM, Rolf Mantel wrote:

I have sat in a car as a passenger when the driver was texted by his
wife and sent an answer via Siri. Needed a few repetitions to
get the
right text but still simpler than ringing her to pass the estimated
arrival time.

And it's now so important to tell one's arrival time?

And when did all this become so important? And why now when just a
few short years ago no one was frantically advising the world that
they would arrive in just three short minutes? Or perhaps 2 minutes
and 59 seconds?

Who said anything about 3 short minutes? Maybe you're replying to
Frank's straw man?

The real situation was as follows: We (two dads a coaches) were taking
some kids to a "First Lego League" regional competition, leaving home
early in the morning; we had only a vague idea how long the competition
would run.

Perfect communication would have been to text the wife before getting
into the car for the way back. As the husband forgot to do so, the wife
texted short before 8pm "When are you coming home?", and the husband
answered "Almost home. I'll drop M. off in Dossenheim and be home in 30
- 60 mins".

Typical for me is "There's an accident on the 401 and traffic is
blocked. I'm still in if you guys can wait for me. If not, see you
next ride."

No idea why the luddites come out whenever anything relatively new is
mentioned.

Get a grip, please. I don't recall anyone complaining about "I'll be half an hour
late. But I did say I don't see the sense of "I'll be there in five minutes"
when there's not emergency going on.

Jay didn't see the sense of "I'm buying lettuce right now," and I agree. I can't
imagine the insecurity inherent in having to give minute by minute reports of
every small activity.

And regarding the original issue of the post, I _don't_ believe that all the
dolts texting while they drive are 30 minutes delayed to an emergency situation.
I think it's FAR more likely that they're talking about the lettuce they just
bought, or something roughly that important.

If they don't like them so much why don't they just ditch the cell phone entirely instead of complaining about how others use them?

I don't think the dislike is about the tool. It's about the behavior.

A person can like cars, but not like motorists buzzing cyclists. A person can
like guns, but not like people going to their workplace and shooting a dozen
co-workers. A person can like cell phones but not like texting while driving,
or yammering loud and long in otherwise quiet public places.

- Frank Krygowski

+1 from this luddite

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