Can you hear me now

Sending text messages, updating Facebook and Twitter statuses, playing a word via Words with Friends…don’t lie! We all do! Almost EVERYONE uses their phones when they get behind the wheel!
It’s subconscious! When at a red light or stuck in rush hour traffic or while driving down the strip, you just so happen to pick up your phone. You don’t mean it…it just kind of “happens.”
But we all need to work on that! I’m not going to sit here and preach about how many fatalities there have been due to cell phone usage, because we’ve all heard that numerous times.
We’ve all seen the commercials about some woman’s daughter dying in a car accident because she read a text saying “where u at?” And Oprah has recently started a campaign against cell phones being used while driving.
Wait a minute, doesn’t Oprah have a driver? Yeah, I thought so! So how she can tell me, an Honors College student, an editor for a biweekly newspaper, secretary for the NAACP and a social butterfly to put my phone down while I’m driving. I have too much going on, too many people counting on me do things at all times of the day. She can just sit in the back of whatever car she’s riding around Chicago in and tweet and conduct meetings while I have to sit in rush hour counting how many treads the tire has in front of me?
This also has something to do everyone being addicted to their phones. People love their “Crackberries” and I’m a member of Team iPhone. When I didn’t have my phone for almost a week, I literally almost had a nervous breakdown. My phone is with me at all times. I’m constantly checking my text messages, e-mails, and playing apps. It’s only natural that to pick it up while driving.
There is now a Louisiana law that, according to Act No. 665, prohibits the driver from “making calls on a cell phone or any wireless telecommunication device while driving unless the communication device is a Hands-Free device.” So I guess, I can still play Words with Friends and send text messages. I guess that also means I can use my iPhone headphones to make calls. (If you are caught using your phone, you will receive a $175 fine for your first offense and $500 fine for your second offense and court fees.)
So if I’m interpreting this Act correctly, if you show the officer that it is a received call or that you are sending a text message or using an app. Why are there so many loopholes?
Honestly, I don’t think there should be a law. People are going to do whatever they want so it’s no point in putting a cost on it. Didn’t they do this with teenage sex? How many people are pregnant nowadays? Yea, that worked out wonderfully.
They are just tying to figure out a way to get money from people…just like those red-light cameras!
Anyhoo, the point of this editorial is to just say “do whatever you want.” I can’t make you not use your cell phone and neither can Oprah.
Be safe!