I had one eye on the girl behind me for my entire commute this morning, because she was screaming into her cell phone and smoking at the same time, reaching across her body to flick ashes out the car window. There were a couple of times that you could tell she forgot she was even in the car.

I have a cell phone and I carry it with me all the time. I also take a lot of road trips and have it in case something happens with the car or whatnot. If I'm in a public place and someone calls me, I tell them I'll call them back when I'm finished what I'm doing. I don't generally talk at all while driving, but if I have to I do have a hands free device for just such a purpose. I have considered getting in touch with my local government about passing a law that requires people to use hands free devices at the very least. Right now I don't know that there's any such thing on the books in my area.