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One Ringy Dingy

Driving home from work tonight, I was stopped at a traffic light waiting to make a left turn. The left arrow from the cross street was green, so I decided to count the number of cars turning left in front of me while I was waiting for the light, and to count how many people driving the cars were on cell phones. I counted 11 cars. 6 of the drivers of those cars were on cell phones.That made my cell phone experience driving home today more exasperating as at least two cars cut into my lane while the drivers were on cell phones. And at least one car had traffic backed up in the left lane of the main drag while he dialed his cell phone, and dialed, and dialed. At the restaurant tonight, a lady was on her phone while waiting for a table as her 5 kids ran wild around her. At least I know that there were 5 times she wasn't on the cell phone, or maybe she was. One never knows. She was on the phone as she walked to her table. She was on the phone when her husband put in his appearance. She