Newsflash: You Can’t Use Cell Phones in the School Zones
There must still be some people that don’t know about this rule because today I saw the cops mass ticketing. I’m thinking they’re going to have to increase manpower to pull all the people over that can’t just text below the steering wheel at stop lights.
Word to the moms: I hear they’re even ticketing carpool lane texters if even slightly rolling forward in line.
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And don’t read Merritt’s post on your iPhone while driving.
I am totally addicted to my blackberry cell phone but have to admit that I’m starting to enjoy those forced quiet interludes after I drop the kids off(once I’ve gotten out of the carpool traffic morass on Dickens). I’ve started enjoying it so much that I haven’t even been texting or checking email at stop lights or between HPISD school zones. It’s a bit refreshing, really, like taking deep breaths while laying on your back in a yoga class.
CLARIFICATION REQUESTED, PLEASE: I am now more clueless than ever re: what is legal and permissible for blackberry users in operative school zones. For many months I have been accessing the internet from my blackberry and reading drudgereport.com, salon.com, etc., while sitting idly in my son’s carpool line. And I never thought for a moment that I was violating any laws. I have even looked forward to arriving outrageously early for a spot in the carpool line because it is usually my only chance to get on the internet to see how Obama and Hillary are faring against each other. On the other hand, I don’t do emails or texting on the doggone thing because, . . . well, I don’t know how. But what I am able to do on my blackberry, when I am horrifically bored, is very much on my mind. If I can’t scan the internet while idling my car in a non-moving-carpool-line, what’s the point, I wonder, of being the first (or the twenty-first) car in the carpool line, anyway? Although usually I am holding my blackberry well below the navel/steering-wheel circumference line — if only because I’ve forgotten my reading glasses — it never occurred to me until now that I might be a put-the-mom-in-jail criminal. Is reading Drudge from my blackberry — if I hold my blackberry above my navel — a criminal offense? Up until now, I thought that if my “mobile device” never came near my ears and if it never, ever reached above my navel, I was in the clear — I was in our government’s safety harbour. But now I am not so sure and I am more than a little terrified. My husband is standing by, waiting for answers and ready to post my bail. Would someone in-the-know please illuminate us all on what is legal?