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I'm so fucking sick of people bitching about mobile phones. Mr Self Destruct and Analog said it best here.
1. Teachers need to realize that the class they are teaching is not the most important thing in the student's lives. They paid for the class and can come and go as they please. If someone wants to answer the phone in class, fine, just say 'hold on a sec' and immediately go outside.
2. The old guy was being an ass. The kid wasn't making a call or anything. He just looked at his phone. Maybe he wanted to see what time it was. If a fucking 1"x1" screen distracts you from a giant fucking movie screen I don't want to know what you'll do if someone gets up to piss. God forbid someone next to you eats popcorn or slurps their drink!
3. This lady did the right thing. She got up and went to the tunnel. Ifthe sound of someone talking quietly at 40 feet away is more distracting than a 10,000 watt super sound system, stay home.
I call bullshit on the mythbusters thing. They did everything possible to make the drivers fail both tests. Time trials? Parallel parking (with a very small space)? Asking crazy questions? Accident avoidance that requires a split second lane change (without time to check the blind spot, of course)? Whatever. Most driving is simply going down a straight road at less than 50 mph. I can count on one hand the amount of times that I've had to change lanes like that.
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