Last year I was walking up a street and stopped for a car coming the other way, wanting to turn into a driveway I was about to cross. There was a hole in the uphill traffic (going my way), so I waited for him. He never went. Once the hole was closed I started up the sidewalk. Suddenly he saw a tiny hole and darted in, almost running me down. I called him a "moron", and he got huffy with me. When I told him he had ignored a big hole only to try for a tiny one, he yelled at me "I was talking on my phone! I was busy! It's not my fault!"
I agree, cell phones in cars should be banned. But then, probably so should eating in cars. Back when I was driving ski vans I once saw a guy with a cup of coffee in one hand, a doughnut in the other and a magazine propped on the steering wheel! And now they have plug-ins for laptop computers in the dashboard.
