General Chat

Janet No difference at all, I suspect. We grow up, and new generation make same mistakes. Not an hour goes by (and I drive very little now) that I don't see somebody driving with a mobile phone in hand or a fag in hand. Hoot at them and they wave back saying you are "Numero Uno". Think that's what they mean.

But would you be happy to be told you cannot use your hands free phone in your own car? Say your wife is expecting a baby and wants to tell you her waters have broken and she wants you to take her to hospital. Would you answer that call, or pull in and phone her back?

Everybody's view will be based on their own usage of a mobile phone and that varies immensely. When I was working full time it never stopped ringing and there were times I could have cheerfully have dropped it in a bucket of water. ( only joking) Now as a laid back pensioner I really don't need a mobile phone as it hardly ever rings but I keep it in case of emergencies as I'm sure lots of people do.

TS I hate molile phones and still have not learned to text. We have to have one at work and we have to have the number of our boss and number of our ICE (in case of emergency) on it. I am happy not to answer when I am driving if boss calls, but am not sure if my wife phones me (which is very rare at work) I should not answer.

But rules at work will be obeyed. At least until the time senior managers get annoyed because they can't contact key staff at key moments.

As a non- driver - and therefore an eternal pedestrian, mobile phones should be banned!!
People walking along texting - and walking in to you, others on their phone - do they realise they're pacing across the pavement? You wait until they're one side, try to get by before they turn, they crash into you and look like it's YOUR fault!
They're not aware of what's going on around them. I was waiting to cross a busy road one day when some self-important tw*t walked into me with such force that they pushed me in to the traffic.
Obviously their text was sooo important - after all they were on their way home and had to tell someone, even though they left work at the same time every day.
These people probably think they are quite capable of walking and talking/texting at the same time, but the majority can't.
If they can't walk/talk/text on a mobile safely, what the hell makes them think they can talk on a mobile and drive?

It's NOT the same as listening to the radio. You can't hurt the feelings of a radio, if you misunderstand what the radio is 'saying' no harm is done. You don't have to concentrate or respond to the radio.

It's against the law in Australia to use a mobile phone while driving. But it doesn't stop the idiots!

I can't see anything wrong with using a handsfree phone ~ not much different to talking to a passenger.

Neither OH nor I have a cell phone, and neither of us intend to get one


I do not understand this need to be in constant contact with everyone all the time.


Nothing is funnier ................... nor sadder .................. than seeing 2 people sitting at the same table, each talking on a cell, or walking hand-in-hand down the street, each with a cell held to the ear.


I sometimes think people can no longer talk to each face to face, but only through a phone


Everyone says how much busier life is these days, and they "have to be available" whenever anyone wants to get hold of them


b******t :-D


I'm positive that people achieve much less these days than their equivalent would have achieved 15 or 20 years ago, or 30 years ago it if comes to that.




Don't get me wrong ........ cell phones do have their use, for safety.

I would buy one to have in the car for when we go on drives. BUT, the plain fact is that coverage is not available on most roads outside the towns.

For example, we drive 700 km to our cabin. There is literally no coverage over about 450 km of that distance ..................... not many people living in those areas, so no incentive for the cell companies to build their towers


and, really, who would like to have towers in the middle of the Rockies?????




sooooooooooooo ..................



to answer your original question


your daughter is wrong, very wrong!


and your company is correct, and should be congratulated. And I hope that its employees, including you, obey the orders.



Just think on this ................... your wife could not have phoned you willy nilly 30+ years ago, nor would she or you have expected her to be able to do that.


and what use are you to her if she phones you, you answer, and have a crash because you are distracted???? A crash that kills you or some other unfortunate person.




sylvia

Excellent thoughts, Sylvia, Scozz and Maggie.

That was what I was hoping for in this thread - some well-grounded and thoughtful views about what could become an important issue soon. Two weeks ago, I would have totally agrred with Scozz and Maggie.

I think I tend to agree with Sylvia now, and was a bit short with my daughter on Saturday when she phoned whilst driving on hands-free. Strangely she was maoevering round a Road Traffic Accident as she spoke to me saying things like - "someone lying still in road" and sounded extemely upset. Then there was a zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!

She phoned me again to say she had lost connection in a dip (probably in Yorkshire or Durham - some dips like Rockies there). So very relieved father.

A piece on telly this morning about mothers taking children to school - parking dangerously and using mobile phones whilst driving. And it looks like hands free now equals waving your phone about in one hand whilst you change gear with other.

So I think many other companies will change their policy in line with mine soon (they banned smoking in vehicles about 6 years ago). And laws will eventually underpin, and people on hands free will be fined £30 with 3 points, same as fine for waving your mobile phone round whilst driving now. :-)

Another good discussion would be using mobile phones in restaurants and public places. And what about using them on streets. If somebody walks towards me shouting "hello hello" on one of these infernal hands-free phones, I always irritatingly pretend I am old and simple and shout back to him or her "hello, hello" and stop for a chat. :-D ;-)

Glad to see you have got the hang of managing your account John ;-)

Thanks TS - not really nasty but enjoy playing the villain now and again. Cochyn is "redhead" or "ginga" in Welsh and man is Arthur Munby (1828-1910) a minor pre-Raphaelite poet who knew Ruskin and Rossettis well and married a g g g aunt :-D