What impulse leads so many, incl. responsible people to equate HWY on-ramps w/ a need to get on cellphones!??

Question

Cellular phones can help when the car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, let you calm worried family when you're late, help you help others in an emergency, and even save a life. Good things all; many benefits in daily use as well, but how in the world did we allow such a huge, ever-increasing percentage of the population to become completely brainwashed and hypnotically obsessed with using their cellphones as though extra points are earned by who uses the most minutes or send the most texts? Worse yet the trend has become strongly linked with driving. Do we secretly miss all those little metal & glass booths so badly we transferred fixation to cars; plentiful, compact, private boxes of glass and metal............ looking at it like that who could argue the resemblance?

Cellphones don't have to banned from roads or locked in trunks, but how's about displaying a little more self-control out there, huh?

Answer 1

Wow, no one has answered this.  When people get on an on-ramp, either they are calling people to say that they're coming home or they're calling people to say when they're arriving at the meeting or even calling mistresses and paramours to arrange for rendezvous.