Here in our corner of the world it is now against the law to be using your hands for driving and managing your technical gadgets - cellphones, ipods, computers, video cameras, tivo, etc. unless of course you can do it hands-free. The issue is one of distractibility. It's a fair law but I'm not so sure it's going to completely solve the problem. Not wanting to be disobedient, I purchased my bluetooth and feeling like I'd joined the crew of the USS Enterprise set off behind the wheel. And of course, I didn't get a single call. Just a sore ear from the ear piece. So for the next few days, I didn't wear it. Instead I vowed to ignore the phone if it rang. Again, not a single call. Apparently I'm not in demand after all. Yeah! So today, while doing my school taxi service I gave the bluetooth another go and nearly had a heart attack. I guess I should have test run it at home, well away from my moving vehicle so I'd know what to expect, since no one mentioned that my phone wouldn't ring to warn me of an incoming call. Instead, out of the blue, there was a women's voice shouting in my ear that I had a call coming in on phone #1. What? hands-free means I could answer multiple phones? Yeah, no thanks. Needless to say I didn't answer the call. I was too busy throwing my Trekky earpiece to the floor of the car where it rolled to the back. Great. I didn't want to talk to anyone anyway. 

I'm sure once I retrieve it from somewhere in the sticky, dirty depths of my car I can figure out how to lower the volume or eradicate this mad women completely. Or maybe I'll just leave it there - if it hasn't been squashed under the 6 pairs of boots that went in an out of there today - and then I'll let everyone know, "Don't call me, I'll call you." And for those who insist on calling, "I can return your call sometime in the next seven years when my kids are grown and I can get out of my car."

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