Comments on: A close shave.

By: mary

mary — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 20:10:15 +0000

It’s the same woman.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:09:54 +0000

designer shades, too, in my neighborhood

By: alex

alex — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:06:15 +0000

And don’t forget the obligatory blond helmet hair, Mary. At least it’s that way around here in Hoosierland.

By: mary

mary — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:34:53 +0000

The classic move I see here is the giant SUV, operated by a woman talking on a cell phone, making a sudden U-Turn mid-block after dropping off her kid. The driver never looks either way, just makes a hard left, then four or five back and forths to get the behemoth-mobile going the other direction. I see it in front of my older son’s high school and at younger son’s middle school. It’s not even the same woman. It has to be a huge SUV, though, and the phone and oblivious attitude are identical.

By: Connie

Connie — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:24:46 +0000

Speaking of Stephen King in his latest The Cell, only the people who use their cell phones go zombie crazy. Unfortunately as it starts most everyone else grabs their cell to call 911 and turn zombie crazy themselves.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:10:21 +0000

i live in a neighborhood rife with soccer moms. they scare me more than any other class of drivers — cell phones, too much of a hurry, too many places to haul too many kids, etc., etc.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:53:18 +0000

Stephen King, who tells this story much better (duh) in “On Writing,” was hit by a now deceased fellow who was a sad story out of one of King’s own books — and don’t think it wasn’t on his mind as he lay writhing on the roadside.

Better/worse than a cell phone: he was driving an old van, and had bought some fresh meat which was in a cooler sliding around in the back with his dog, who (cue Nance) was trying to get at it, and the driver was reaching back to grab the collar when he turned King’s leg into butcher meat.

King later purchased the van in question and sold, to raise money for his area Little League, hits with a baseball bat on it, and finally personally pushed the button to crush it at a recycling yard. The man really lives his work.

And i am no horror fan, or even much of a King reader, but “On Writing” is a really useful and fun read.

Peace, Jeff

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:47:13 +0000

My point exactly about those soccer moms! (Hope your friend wasn’t hurt, Mindy. Don’t mean to make light of it.)

By: Mindy

Mindy — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 10:37:40 +0000

Back when cell phones were still unique to people who had too much money, a friend was at a stoplight on Coliseum Blvd. and happened to glance in her rearview mirror only to see a minivan approaching much too fast. She sat helplessly as the van smashed into the back of her car. The driver was a soccer mom yakking on her cell en route to taking three kids to a game. Only one of the kids was hers, very scary.

By: nancy

nancy — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 01:00:04 +0000

Well, I have used mine when driving, but I try to be smart about it. In fact, I have to be — I have a stick shift, and no headset, so it pretty much has to be in calm freeway traffic or not at all.

But again, I’m amazed at how often I use it for things I never thought I’d use it for. Alan and I never would have been able to find one another in the RenCen the weekend before the Super Bowl without our phones. And when Alex and I were at the Gay/Lesbian Dinner Dance, it came in handy to find him when we got separated.

And here I thought it was only for 911 calls.