When they decided to bring the whole hands-free law into effect, I thought it was a good thing. It seemed like every time I got behind someone going 10 miles below the speed limit or swerving on the freeway, it was some idiot talking on their cell phone. Now, they've passed the law, and all I see out there are...idiots with headsets on talking on their cell phones...still not paying attention to what they're doing. I'm sure the law will eventually cut down on accidents caused by people preoccupied with...what? Holding the phone to their heads? You still have to dial the phone, right (unless you have a voice activated dialer)? It makes me wonder why talking on the phone in your car, despite the headset, is somehow far more distracting than having a conversation with the person in the passenger seat. More to the point, why do people need to talk randomly in their cars at all? I remember the many, many years I spent before cell phones when I would drive in my car and not feel the need to just talk to people for the hell of it. But that seems to come with mobile phones, too, doesn't it? I'm sure you've all been victim to the person next to you at the gym having a loud conversation on their phone while on the treadmill. Unless that person is saying, "Ok...now get the rib spreader, and carefully open the chest cavity..." it just seems like a call that could wait until later.

I guess that's my rant for the day.