Using your mobile phone while driving

[Helen May]

Do you do it?

Interesting that a guy was fined for just touching his phone.

H

[Rabid]

He said he picked up his phone to check an incoming message. Hardly "just touching it" was it?

[grieversoul]

What about his argument?

"Well, you're allowed to touch your gearstick, lights etc."

DOH! Is that not driving?

Pillock.

[Meadow]

Some folk get annoyed when I don't answer my phone when out. I tell them I was driving and they're amazed I haven't got a hands free. You can still lose concentration when using a hand free.

[Deckerd]

I call Him Indoors's hands-free his Borg implant.

[Underdome]

I call Him Indoors's hands-free his Borg implant.

Had to parse that one a few times.

[Rabid]

I bet you both live in fear of drowning when you both pish yourselves laughing at that one?

[Deckerd]

unexpected, this is

[Deckerd]

If my mobile rings when I'm driving I ignore it.

[Helen May]

What about his argument?

"Well, you're allowed to touch your gearstick, lights etc."

DOH! Is that not driving?

Pillock.

That wasn't the guy I meant (the one that called in), he was the one on the service area at the beginning of the interview.

I don't use a mobile phone while driving, in fact I rarely use one at all, but what about turning the heater on or the air, or even turning down the volume of the radio/cd?

H

[Rabid]

Do you have to enter into a conversation with a heater or radio to deal with it?

Do you have to take your eyes off the road to turn down your radio?

[V8farty]

Arn't these hands free sets about 3 and sixpence. If people want to talk on the phone whlist driving, why can't they buy one of these?

[quickssandra]

I pass my phone to whichever boy is in the car with me (I'm seldom, if ever alone, if I am I ignore it) if it rings while I'm driving. Would I get done for handling it? Or for answering the question the boy then asks me?(It's always a query from one of the others!)

QS

[Bea]

Arn't these hands free sets about 3 and sixpence. If people want to talk on the phone whlist driving, why can't they buy one of these?

I have got one - I got it thrown in the the phone when I bought it. It isn't great - but better than nothing - but I just ignore my phone when driving - that's what answerphones are for.

We have just had an email come out at work - anyone caught using the mobile whilst driving a company vehicle is sacked. Also anyone avoiding the boss' calls and claiming to have been driving is also sacked.

Fortunately, I dont have a company vehicle, company phone, drive on company business or give a flying toot about this particular job. :lol:

[Helen May]

Do you have to enter into a conversation with a heater or radio to deal with it?

Do you have to take your eyes off the road to turn down your radio?

You sometimes do if the control isn't on the steering column.

What about looking at a road sign then?

H

[Rabid]

I don't use my mobile while driving.

I drive while using my mobile.

[Rabid]

Do you have to enter into a conversation with a heater or radio to deal with it?

Do you have to take your eyes off the road to turn down your radio?

You sometimes do if the control isn't on the steering column.

What about looking at a road sign then?

H

Looking at a road sign is part and parcel of the entire driving requirement. Talking to your daughter about what to have for tea tonight is not.

I do have steering wheel controls for my stereo, but I can find the heater and radio controls on the dash without looking at them.

[Deckerd]

What about looking at a road sign then?



Those red ones with the white bar across the middle. I always ignore them.

[Helen May]

I pass my phone to whichever boy is in the car with me (I'm seldom, if ever alone, if I am I ignore it) if it rings while I'm driving. Would I get done for handling it? Or for answering the question the boy then asks me?(It's always a query from one of the others!)

QS

From what one of the guys in Oxfordshire (I think) said you would Sandra.

H

[Helen May]

Do you have to enter into a conversation with a heater or radio to deal with it?

Do you have to take your eyes off the road to turn down your radio?

You sometimes do if the control isn't on the steering column.

What about looking at a road sign then?

H

Looking at a road sign is part and parcel of the entire driving requirement. Talking to your daughter about what to have for tea tonight is not.

I do have steering wheel controls for my stereo, but I can find the heater and radio controls on the dash without looking at them.


You are still taking your eyes of the road and if you are lost, you are destracted.

Can you honestly say you've never taken your eyes off the road, ever?

Don't tell me you've never been confused by a road sign either......

H

[Rabid]

I can honestly say I've never been confused enough by a road sign to distract me from the job in hand, i.e. safely driving my vehicle along the road.

We all take our eyes off the road, but again not long enough to read a text message for example.

It's all about the degree to which you are "distracted", surely?

[Helen May]

I can honestly say I've never been confused enough by a road sign to distract me from the job in hand, i.e. safely driving my vehicle along the road.

We all take our eyes off the road, but again not long enough to read a text message for example.

It's all about the degree to which you are "distracted", surely?

I'm not for using a mobile at all Rabid, just comparing different types of 'distraction'.

Have you never sneezed while driving?

H

[V8farty]

What about one of those 'lock jaw' things. Arn't they any good?

[V8farty]

Have you never sneezed while driving?


I've had oral sex. Neally killed everyone on the bus.

[Rabid]

I'm not for using a mobile at all Rabid, just comparing different types of 'distraction'.

Have you never sneezed while driving?

H

Many times, thankfully. It's how I explain a sticky steering wheel to Mrs R.

[Rabid]

Have you never sneezed while driving?


I've had oral sex. Neally killed everyone on the bus.

But I bet you made the bus driver's day?

[Phillip Phlopp]

v8 was 2d short for the fare. It was either pleasuring the 22st Albanian bus driver or getting off a stop early.

[V8farty]

I was very drunk at the time.

[Bea]

You would have to be drunk to get on a bus in the first place :D

[Welsh Gardener]

v8 was 2d short for the fare. It was either pleasuring the 22st Albanian bus driver or getting off a stop early.

As V8 is 6d short of a full shilling, he'd hardly even notice if he had to suffer premature evacuation.

WG

[Rabid]

You would have to be drunk to get on a bus in the first place :D

Oh I don't know, I've had many a "diesel stiffy"

[V8farty]

Premature evacuation? Diesel Stiffy?? It's all gets a bit high brow on here for me sometimes.

[FLYBYNIGHT]

,quote.Premature evacuation? Diesel Stiffy?? It's all gets a bit high brow on here for me sometimes../quote.

[FLYBYNIGHT]

Sorry, didn't mean to post that! Was experimenting. LOL

[Bea]

Nope - I have to give up - what IS a diesel stiffy?

[Ian Mac]

Nope - I have to give up - what IS a diesel stiffy?

It could be a dead lorry driver.

I don't like the sound of that. :shock:

[malcreed]

Some folk get annoyed when I don't answer my phone when out. I tell them I was driving and they're amazed I haven't got a hands free.

If you are going to ignore the phone, if it rings when you are driving, why not switch it OFF until you're able to answer it?...It's easy to check for missed calls... :?

Does anyone actually switch their mobile phone off, at any time?
Malc.

[Rabid]

Bea

A diesel stiffy is what happens while sitting in a bus or train with a big diesel engine. The vibrations cause blood to flow and....oyu can guess the rest.

Ever-helpful Rabid

[malcreed]

Does anyone here think that these new regulations will deter many people from using them? I don't, because the 'habit' has been allowed to continue for far too long and most people believe that they won't get caught, so nothing changes...
When my mobile phone is in the car it's for use in an emergency, NOT for me to be contacted en-route!...
A lifetime driving ban is the ONLY answer!...

Malc.

[VictorLaslo]

I always turn my mobile off when driving, especially when I'm cruising along on the motorway. The damn thing was always waking me when I was having one of my power naps.

VL

[moiraken]

They were tryin to show on the news yesterday a zero tollerance approach by the police. They stopped a guy and gave him a ticking off and sent him on his way. How is that zero tollerance??!
I have a handsfree kit but it very rarely rings but it's reassuring when I'm not with kids to be contactable. Only ever use it handsfree though!
I was following an old guy coming out of tesco the other week and he was all over the road. Swapping his phone to his other hand to change gear. Not sure what he was steering with!

[GingerWeegie]

I've got one of those bluetooth headsets, but ONLY accept calls. If I need to make a call I pull over somewhere safe.

Yesterday, the day the new law came in, I was sitting in heavy traffic and in a 400m stretch of road was passed by:

1) 3 drivers talking on handhelds

2) 2 drivers texting

3) 1 taxi driver on a handheld, with a bluetooth headset on the other ear!!!

Total mockery of the law.

MORE traffic officers required to enforce this and ALL other aspects of shite driving, rather than more speed cameras, which only catch idiots and the unaware.

[Welsh Gardener]

I only drove 4 miles yesterday and I passed FIVE people using mobiles while driving. One was in a very large tractor pulling a trailer, 2 were in HGV's and 2 in cars.

It seems to me that the message is still not getting across.

WG

[Rabid]

I only drove 4 miles yesterday and I passed FIVE people using mobiles while driving. One was in a very large tractor pulling a trailer, 2 were in HGV's and 2 in cars.

It seems to me that the message is still not getting across.

WG

Text them with your disdain, that might stop them.

[Bea]

Bea

A diesel stiffy is what happens while sitting in a bus or train with a big diesel engine. The vibrations cause blood to flow and....oyu can guess the rest.

Ever-helpful Rabid

Thanks for the heads up :lol:

[Welsh Gardener]

I only drove 4 miles yesterday and I passed FIVE people using mobiles while driving. One was in a very large tractor pulling a trailer, 2 were in HGV's and 2 in cars.

It seems to me that the message is still not getting across.

WG

Text them with your disdain, that might stop them.

:roll:

WG

[Rabid]

Bea

A diesel stiffy is what happens while sitting in a bus or train with a big diesel engine. The vibrations cause blood to flow and....oyu can guess the rest.

Ever-helpful Rabid

Thanks for the heads up :lol:

There's a party in my pants, and you're invited.

[Welsh Gardener]

Amazing how far we can come from 'using your mobile phone while driving' in less than 2 full pages.

WG

[Rabid]

WG

Were you driving your car while inspecting all the other drivers and counting how many were using phones and what they were driving.

A bit distracting, what?

[Bea]

Bea

A diesel stiffy is what happens while sitting in a bus or train with a big diesel engine. The vibrations cause blood to flow and....oyu can guess the rest.

Ever-helpful Rabid

Thanks for the heads up :lol:

There's a party in my pants, and you're invited.

Kind of you Rabid, but having read the quote below on another thread, I will have to decline. I am sure you will understand.



When I had problems with my waterworks, my GP asked for a stool sample, a urine sample and a semen sample for analysis.

I posted him a pair of my trollies.

[Rabid]

That was a long time ago now. Penicillin and antibiotics cleared all that up, as did a liberal sprinkle of Persil.

In fact, today's trollies were new out of the box this morning.

[Welsh Gardener]

So sorry to disappoint Rabid, but I was actually parked waiting for somebody outside the community magnet that is the Ceredigion Animal Feed suppliers when my attention wandered from admiring the check-shirted famers in their wellies to the passing drivers.

WG

[Rabid]

I only asked WG.

[Terrine]

I do use my phone whilst driving, speaking and occassionally texting. I don't have a hands free as I only talk whilst driving once in a blue moon and can't warrant buying one and setting it up. To all those anti-phoners, I did (pat on the back) pull over this morning to answer my phone but only cos I'd not long passed a copper. I didn't switch the ignition off though, as thats just stupid.

[Welsh Gardener]

I only asked WG.

And for some strange reason, I felt dutybound to provide an honest answer :roll:

Silly old me

WG

[Helen May]

Does anyone actually switch their mobile phone off, at any time?
Malc.

Mine is rarely switched on Malc, but then I like to be 'out' when I'm out!

H

[malcreed]

Does anyone actually switch their mobile phone off, at any time?
Malc.

Mine is rarely switched on Malc, but then I like to be 'out' when I'm out!

H

Hi Helen,

Same here... :wink:

[malcreed]

I do use my phone whilst driving, speaking and occassionally texting. I don't have a hands free as I only talk whilst driving once in a blue moon and can't warrant buying one and setting it up. To all those anti-phoners, I did (pat on the back) pull over this morning to answer my phone but only cos I'd not long passed a copper. I didn't switch the ignition off though, as thats just stupid.

You ARE Joking, right?... :?

Malcreed

[GingerWeegie]

I do use my phone whilst driving, speaking and occassionally texting. I don't have a hands free as I only talk whilst driving once in a blue moon and can't warrant buying one and setting it up. To all those anti-phoners, I did (pat on the back) pull over this morning to answer my phone but only cos I'd not long passed a copper. I didn't switch the ignition off though, as thats just stupid.

and if you're not joking, may I assure you it's YOU that's stupid




TWONK

[Terrine]

Twonk-twonk!

[Deckerd]

Somehow the way you say that Terrine, it's sounds rude

[V8farty]

Terrines a farmer. When she’s not killing foxes or down the slaughterhouse making sure she’s getting the best deal for her tripe, she’s running over fluffy bunnies, small children and drunk scotch blokes.

My kinda gal!

[Terrine]

Oh sorry Decks, forgive me.


Twonk-twonk-twonk then.

[VictorLaslo]

I watched 'Dragon's Den' as is usual on a Wednesday night.

I was impressed by the lady who had developed the 'Mummy-Mit', a pair of mittens velcroed to the handle of a pram or pushchair. None of the miserly bastards gave her the moolar.

I have developed her idea and selotaped a pair of driving gloves to the steering wheel of my car.

My hands are snugly warm and I can slip them out when I want to text my mate to tell him I'm on my way to the pub 'get the beer in'.

VL

[Hobsons-choice]

Followed a young lady the other morning paying great attention to the rear view mirror - very useful for putting on the eyeliner and mascara.
Is that banned as well?

[YesBut]

Don't think eyeliner or mascara has been banned. :lol:

[Lord Evan Elpuss]

Does anyone actually switch their mobile phone off, at any time?
Malc.

Mine is rarely switched on Malc, but then I like to be 'out' when I'm out!

H
Same here too! Mine's only to say "I'm on my way home" or if an emergency should arise.