Snappy the Clam

BBC NEWS | England | Oxfordshire | 'Talking windscreens' could stop accidents

If only I had had one of these Monday, the Day From Hell, when I flubbed an interview, I came out of the interview to discover I had left my lights on in the parking lot and my car battery was dead, and (once I finally got a jump from a kind woman, after a guy driving a Mercedes had responded to my request for a jump with "Not with this car" - was this a class comment, or do Mercedes not ahve battery terminals or something?) when I was driving to the train station to get to work I was busted by the New Rochelle Police (well, a New Rochelle Policeman, I don't want to make it sound like a SWAT team was after me) for using my cellphone in the car (which I never do; I made an exception this once to get sympathy from L about the interview and the dead car battery) and not signaling a right turn in a right-turn only lane. And the ridiculous thing is that I normally always signal and normally never use the cell when driving, since I drive a stick and need both hands free, a problem which apparently the vast numbers of cellphone-using SUV drivers round these parts (you know who you are) don't have. Although Sammy the Talking Windshield would have probably just called me a putz and had done with it.