Reply #113: It's the height of personal overestimation and selfishness

[PurityOfEssence]

How many of those conversations are NECESSARY? First off, the only conversations that should be had while driving (unless, perhaps, at speed on an empty, straight freeway like the 5) are NECESSARY ones. You're piloting a deadly projectile. You're in rapidly changing situations that demand extreme concentration.

I can't express how many near-death experiences I've had here in L.A. and how many galling near-scrapes of this sort: some ditz in an FUV (the really BIG kind, like the Chevy Suburb or the Lincoln Memorial) who's making a 9-point turn in a parking lot while gossiping about something trivial. The sheer privilege these people exude is literally deafening.

I'm in a business where I should, by definition and stereotype, be talking on the car phone, and I can at least muster a scrap of decency and responsibility to pull over if necessary.

Hang 'em high. Put 'em in a sealed room with their cell phone and have some friend call 'em and say: "Just WAIT 'til I tell you what he/she said..." and then cut the signal. Allow them to call back and just when the connection is made, hit the interference.

Dante's 10th ring of hell...