My turn to rant:
I'm taking a friend's car for the next couple weeks as he is getting married in Jamaica, so that works out well. I pick up the car, drop him off, start heading up 8th Ave. to pick up TPunk and her visiting mother to give them a ride home. But 8th Ave. is mysteriously closed at 42nd Street and a cop makes me turn left. So I have to call TPunk and let her know I won't be driving up and meeting her at the appointed place. Mind you, traffic is crawling and I am now being routed through Times Square.
During this brief call, I am spotted by a lawman who pulls me over and I am served a ticket for operating a vehicle while using an electronic device. Now, I am all for that law. I hate people yakking and driving, but what is one supposed to do when one is meeting somebody and the street is suddenly closed and it isn't like I can pull off into a driveway or anything to let my gal know I can't pick her up in the appinted place? Okay, I'm sure every cellphone yakker has an excuse.
But what angers me most is I don't even have a car, I was in this car for less than 10 minutes, and I got a ticket. I haven't gotten a ticket since 1990!