1. Learn how to use, dexterously, the bluetooth/hands-free/earpiece device that I had to buy with new cell phone and
2. under no circumstances wear it outside of the moving vehicle that I am driving and even then, wear it only while talking on it and remove it immediately after ending the conversation
This is what mine looks like. It is a piece of technology I am not willingly embracing despite my shiny new Cultural Studies based perspectives on modernity. I think it sort of disgusts me...However, for the last four days I'd felt sort of like a failure for not having even attempted to keep this resolution before the 2008 law went into effect. Even though it's supposed to be safer, I reallyreallyreally don't want to wear one of those things - probably more likely to smack into something while trying to adjust to the new postures and digital movements required to operate the device. Yes, I know I don't have to talk while driving, but I don't really see "no more talking while driving" as a practical resolution. Besides, it's too late for that. I already talked on the phone twice yesterday while driving, and without the thing in my ear. I felt pangs of guilt until I checked out the DMV website and found that the new cellular phone law doesn't even go into effect until July 1 (as opposed to January 1, like I originally assumed)! LaLaLa
Do you think I'd feel better about wearing one if mine looked like this?
How about this?
2 comments:
The star Trek one rocks! LOL. Actually, I'm totally with you. I have one (simple Motorola if you care to pry), but I hate wearing it. What's more pathetic, is I don't usually wear it while driving, I wear it while typing. People call my cell. I work, and talk at the same time. I multi-task, and they like it better than speaker-phone: more personal. Go figure.
I would love to actually have the Star Trek one...wonder how long it will be until we can. Ironically, I think those pins would look way less geeky than the ear extensions.
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