Stuff About Cars

Could be a bloody expensive call now, innit? £60 plus three points on your license.
Don’t take that as disapproval. I think it’s fine to impose stiff penalties on anything that is likely to distract the driver from concentrating on the road. I’m looking forward to similar fines being introduced for:

• Having those stupidly loud booming stereo systems (can’t hear horns and sirens)
• Posing in sunglasses after dark (can’t see a damned thing)
• Hanging stupid CDs, dice, Barney the flippin’ dinosaur or whatever  from the rear view mirror
• Badly behaved, gobby children fighting in the back of the car
• Fag hanging from mouth (burned genitals due to dropped cigarette can be very distracting)
• Stupid decorative script number plates (distracts the driver behind as he tries to work out what the hell your registration is)

Equally, while we’re punishing people for using their phones in cars, how about banning the confounded things from a few more places. I’d like to see fines for mobile phone use:

• In pubs and restaurants
• In cinemas and theatres
• In conference and seminar sessions that cost an arm and a leg, and from which you want to get your money’s worth without being put off by the ‘amusing’ ringtone of the git who forgot to switch off his phone
• At funerals
• In schools
• In church (unless phoning god)
• And, until people learn how to have a conversation without stopping dead in their tracks, on busy pavements.

Not that I’m moaning or owt…

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