On Mon, 30 Apr 2018 13:45:00 -0600, graham > wrote:

>On 2018-04-30 1:11 PM, wrote:
>> On Mon, 30 Apr 2018 08:50:58 -0600, graham > wrote:
>>
>>> On 2018-04-30 8:12 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>> On 2018-04-30 9:00 AM, wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> It's illegal here, too.* Unless there happens to be a cop right
>>>>>> there, you're not going to get into trouble with the law.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> nancy
>>>>>
>>>>> It's been illegal here for maybe five years or more and I rarely see
>>>>> anyone holding a phone anymore, suffice to say, if I do, I notice them
>>>>> now!
>>>>
>>>> It has been illegal here for about the same amount of time, but it is
>>>> still so common that they recently boosted the penalties. People still
>>>> do it.* Just the other day when I was out on the bike and saw an
>>>> oncoming car hit the shoulder, then over the centre line.... he was
>>>> looking at his device.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> OTOH I was following a car through the mountains on HW1 and it kept
>>> drifting onto the shoulder and then back again. I thought that the
>>> driver was one of those people (especially women*) who believe in making
>>> eye contact when conversing. When I had the opportunity to pass, I was
>>> right! She was drifting over when she turned to face her passenger as
>>> she talked and had to correct when she wasn't.
>>> *Lucretia - this is not a misogynistic but based on countless
>>> observations. I have seen very few men do this.
>>
>> There are both male and females idiots, if I am talking either to cell
>> phone or passenger, I still keeping looking ahead.
>>
>I think that that subset of people who turn their heads are devotees of
>those mountebanks of the personal growth movement with which PBS fills
>the airwaves during their interminable fund raising weeks.

Lol although I support PBS I don't see that anymore having cut the
cable and ironically can enjoy Frontline etc.