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Kudos from a BlackBerry user to Rocky and KSL Radio
Two thank-yous tonight from a BlackBerry user, one to Mayor Rocky Anderson, and one to KSL Radio.
Thank you, Mayor Anderson, for last month's order banning city employees from using cell phones while driving on city business. The publicity from that, along with the horrible death-by-cell-phone of Lauren Mulkey last month, guilted us into cutting back our cell phone usage in the car. Well, one of us, anyway; the other rarely used a cell to begin with.
Until now, I have been one of those who believed I was such a wonderful driver that I could cruise down the road wholly unaffected by the conversation in my ear; it was those other people who should hang up and drive. I must admit, though, that I have missed exits and driven past parking lot entrances while immersed in phone calls. Like it or not, that means I was not paying complete attention. So, it is now Week 2 of BlackBerry cold turkey -- well, lukewarm turkey. Week 2 of not checking and replying to e-mails while sailing down I-15 -- yes, I admit doing that -- and of restricting outgoing phone calls to secretary and family. I still answer incoming calls, but I try to keep them short. And I still check e-mail at stoplights. I don't know if the CrackBerry habit can be broken entirely, but until then it's one day at a time.
Meanwhile, thank you, KSL Radio, for helping me keep this pledge. Driving home tonight, I switched over to The Nightside Project, thinking that I might call in if the topic was interesting. (It wasn't. "Can single guys and single gals be just friends?"--I'll never get those brain cells back.) Shortly after I tuned in, a recorded message went out inviting listeners to call KSL-TALK. No phone number followed. That made it easy not to call, because the letters on a BlackBerry, unlike other phones, do not match the phone dial. On my BlackBerry, KSL-TALK is 6?6-2?'6. On a full-QWERTY BlackBerry, it's '4"-(*"'. Not that I would call in from my cell phone, but don't forsake BlackBerry users, KSL -- give us the actual phone number, too.
Thank you, Mayor Anderson, for last month's order banning city employees from using cell phones while driving on city business. The publicity from that, along with the horrible death-by-cell-phone of Lauren Mulkey last month, guilted us into cutting back our cell phone usage in the car. Well, one of us, anyway; the other rarely used a cell to begin with.
Until now, I have been one of those who believed I was such a wonderful driver that I could cruise down the road wholly unaffected by the conversation in my ear; it was those other people who should hang up and drive. I must admit, though, that I have missed exits and driven past parking lot entrances while immersed in phone calls. Like it or not, that means I was not paying complete attention. So, it is now Week 2 of BlackBerry cold turkey -- well, lukewarm turkey. Week 2 of not checking and replying to e-mails while sailing down I-15 -- yes, I admit doing that -- and of restricting outgoing phone calls to secretary and family. I still answer incoming calls, but I try to keep them short. And I still check e-mail at stoplights. I don't know if the CrackBerry habit can be broken entirely, but until then it's one day at a time.
Meanwhile, thank you, KSL Radio, for helping me keep this pledge. Driving home tonight, I switched over to The Nightside Project, thinking that I might call in if the topic was interesting. (It wasn't. "Can single guys and single gals be just friends?"--I'll never get those brain cells back.) Shortly after I tuned in, a recorded message went out inviting listeners to call KSL-TALK. No phone number followed. That made it easy not to call, because the letters on a BlackBerry, unlike other phones, do not match the phone dial. On my BlackBerry, KSL-TALK is 6?6-2?'6. On a full-QWERTY BlackBerry, it's '4"-(*"'. Not that I would call in from my cell phone, but don't forsake BlackBerry users, KSL -- give us the actual phone number, too.
(Anonymous)
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