I've read studies which say that hands-free isn't much safer; you are still distracted from the task at hand: watching for other crazy people swerving around talking on THEIR cell phones!

Yeah, but 24/7? "Cell phones are seriously life"? Anyone who gets angry at having to leave a voicemail at any hour of any day is going to develop anxiety issues in five years.

Personally I find people who get pissed off at my not being available to talk whenever they so choose way more frustrating. I pay for my phone, they don't. I'll use it how and when I fucking well like.

~snippage

NOTHING more frustrating? NOTHING? Wow, to be young again.

It has to be safer than some soccer mom with 3 kids and one hand on the wheel of a 4500 pound SUV not looking before she trys to turn with that one hand.:mad:

Dude, are you mad at me or sumpin'?:bawling:
:biglaugha

(lol @ soccer mom: how does she see around that big soccer ball sticker with the names tyler or taylor or skyler or whatever blocking half her back window?)

Finally, some support. Yack yack yack yack there needs to be two sides to any issue. Disagree or don't, it's all valid opinion.

You sure we're not too old to have a valid opinion?

5200lb actually.... :D

Please, don't tell me you're not offended by yack yack yack? :o
I never once tried to offend anyone, just justify my reasoning.

eh? What's that you say, sonny?
 

lol @ DanaC

When I was working, my cell phone was surgically attached to my head. I needed to be reachable 24/7 - (On call, no matter what, no matter when) Now that I've escaped from that grind, I forget it's even in my purse half the time (which is generally when the battery's dead and I need to use the dang thing).

I'm not 50. I'm not even 40. I carry a phone and so does my husband, but we're not 'ruled' by it. Our friends and family are able to reach us numerous ways - email, IM, SMS, land line, cell phone, carrier pigeon, etc. They call us, or leave a message on one of the aforementioned methods, and wait for us to get in touch with them. If they _really_ need us, (i.e. family health issue, emergency, etc), they'll try one or two of the other methods, and eventually track us down. But they surely don't get this angry if we don't call them back right away.

We purchased cell phones for our convenience - NOT the convenience of the people that call me. I would much rather have had one so I could go 'out' and live my life rather than having to sit at home while I was on call. And I'm the first one to bitch about the idiot on his cell phone in line at the grocery store, or the chick who'd rather talk than drive safely, and don't even get me started about the kids on wheely shoes with cell phones at the mall. If this makes me 'old', where's my AARP card?

I think a lot of this _IS_ generational - kids today want 'instant' gratification - and well, have a little hissy fit when it doesn't happen the way they want it to. (I'll get mad when she doesn't answer her phone the way I want her to). This particular situation however, sends up huge red flags and screams 'stalker' to me.

Dude, leave her a message, she'll get back to you if she wants to. If not (and really, this is clear to most of us, but apparently not you), she's just simply not gonna.

*chuckles* Fresh, I ain't that easily offended sweety.

Why would anyone care if someone is on the phone at a grocery check-out?

I was just wondering the same thing. Maybe she means the cashier is talking on the phone instead of waiting on customers. There's nothing wrong with a customer being on the phone.