Never fails. Seems like the thing is always silent until I’m in the car and driving and then it rings incessantly. Early start today. It was only eight fifteen. I could have let the call go onto voice mail, but I’m compulsive about answering the phone—a habit I picked up in the lean days when I first opened the agency and couldn’t afford to miss a potential client. I pulled over and stopped before I answered, something else I’m compulsive about. People who drive with a cell clapped against their ear and too-little attention to the road are one of my pet peeves. You don’t see quite as many doing it now that the new state law banning handheld cellular phones while operating a motor vehicle finally has kicked in, but there’re still too many to suit me. The fines aren’t nearly stiff enough to be an effective deterrent, and the ones who risk getting caught seem to take a sneaky self-satisfaction in flaunting a law they consider an unnecessary infringement on their personal rights.
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