Missing a part of me.

Seems that in today's world our cell phones are becoming more than just an attachment on our bodies. They are really becoming a part of you. At least that's how I feel right now. My cell phone was stolen recently... its not been found, and though I disconnected that phone from my account. I am still missing it. Well actually the information on it. Who ever has the phone has so much of my life on it. They have access to my friends, family, customers, and their important information. I am lucky that I didn't keep credit card, bank account info, SIN #and the like; but still.

Worse still I have a bad memory. Always have and sadly will. My Cell kept my organized and focused on what is going to happen and what already has happened.

So for now, I have to go back to a paper calender.... arg!

Dealing with the cell phone ban is easy...

So recently the new ban has actually been a mixed blessing. With no blue-tooth I don't have to answer the phone while driving... I can even mute the phone and only check it when I am waiting at a loading dock etc. Also its nice not to have the expectation that I must answer the phone ASAP... and while I even got a new phone which can have blue tooth, I am not going to buy one. I like that I can't answer the phone while behind the wheel.

Giving out parking tickets???

So this past week I was getting more and more annoyed with 4-wheelers who parked in and around loading zones which would make it impossible for me to get loaded and unloaded at the shippers .... So I found online a site which you can get funny tickets to use for jokes... The ones I found were very insulting and nasty. I didn't want to be that mean. So I made my own tickets up and had them printed on neon orange paper at the local copy shop.

Friday I used 6 'tickets'. Four at a grocery store downtown Toronto. This store has a very narrow ramp for the trucks to back down to get unloaded. At the street level there is just enough space to back the truck into and open the rear doors before backing down the ramp. The truck and the ramp are very visible to the car passing that area. The problem is that there looks to be enough space for the truck to get out from the vantage place of the 4-wheelers who decide that they can park in the loading zone... marked by paint and sign age on the wall that its a loading zone and they can be ticketed for parking there. Yet people park there. Its not very close to the store entrance.

So of course while I was trying to back off the street and into the Loading Zone. two cars tried to park in the spot where I needed to go. I just pulled the horn and starting to back up. They moved away. once in the dock I walked back up and told two other cars that it was a loading zone and to find parking in back (which is closer to the store than the parking in front) they moved. I had grabbed a bunch of 'tickets' from the truck knowing that I would have to use them when I was trying to leave. After unloaded for all of 10min. I found three new cars parked in the loading zone. I walked up to each and made a show of witting the 'ticket' and then placing it under the wiper. By the third ticket was being issued. A lady with bags of food came running up to me and starting to plead with me about the ticket. She has no clue that its only the city parking authority who can give out tickets. She was freaking about another ticket which she could not afford.

I took pity on her, and told her that it was a joke ticket and that it is how I vent when people block trucks and myself from working.

What a great laugh!

can't drive and using your cell phone... in ontario!

So if you want to talk while driving... that's fine but you must be using a hands freed device. So why after talking to people for the past few years, does the provincial government decide that they need to take 3 months to educate the driver who are using cell phone or other electronic devices while driving and how its so very dangerous? And why does the government think that a small $500.00 is enough to stop people from putting those stupid things in their hands?

I would much rather have the fine around the $1-2,000 range and with a 2-4 point range depending upon what you were doing while on the phone/electronic device.

I truely belive that the cell phone comanies can really help to get the message across to their users. They do have the technology to track when a cell phone is being used and when it is moving, so why can't they send a message to the user that warns them of how dangerous it is to be using the phone while driving? They could also only enable features like speaker phone, or even bluetooth technology while the phone scenes a movement of more than 15kph. Hey, if the movement is along the road, and Bluetooth is not active, then features like texting, games, etc would be disabled altogether.
Thought the problem is that what if the person is taking transit, or even just the passenger? Then what?

So the simple solution is for people to understand how expensive talking etc on their phone is going to be. Make the fines and point so horrible that they will think twice about using it. Also allow the cops to have access to cell phone records when they stop or deal with an accident. If they show you - the driver were on the cell phone, then you are given x points on your licence regardless...

police on their cell phone

Howdy,

Just wondering if anybody else has seen a cop on their cell phone while driving? I see it far too often on the roads, esp in Toronto, Ontario. I am concerned that their might be a double-standard when it comes to the anti-cell phone laws. I don't understand that with their union that they can't find a way to have a hands-free device mandatory on their cars.

Should I report their usage to the police? Of would cops policing cops be a bad idea?

Cell phones while driving?

Just in case you have not heard.... using your cell phone and any function of it is very dangerous... Why cause you are not using your mind to drive with. You must think that its easy or safe to driving with that thing on your ear. I and most people are able to pick out cell phone driving morons on the road. 
For some reason, while using your cell you think that its OK not to signal, check your blind spot or even keep up with the flow of traffic anymore. 


You have to remember that in my truck I am sitting about 4 feet higher than you are in your car. I can see into your car and see you with your cell phone on and trying to drive. PLEASE STOP YOUR CAR AND THEN OPERATE IT.


I would feel much safer with you no using that dam thing. I would love to be able to call the cops on each and every one of your drivers, but the problem is that I would have write down your plate number and then pull over to make the call. 


I wonder what would happen if you were in an accident and then the cops as a policy checked the cell phone useage of all drivers. They found that yours were on, and then charged you with the accident and you had to pay for all the damages... then you could not get insurance... because you were chraged with a DUI which resulted in your being stripped of your driver's licence for a year. Would you stop using your cell phone then? Or what if you caused the accident and killed somebody?


WHAT WOULD IT TAKE FOR YOU TO STOP USING THAT DAME PHONE?