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Recently on the morning TV shows, a couple were interviewed on the subject of cell phones. Their young son had been killed by a driver who had run a red light because she was texting on her cell phone. The father of the boy has invented a mechanism that can be applied to cell phones with an automatic message that the receiver is driving and the call is being sent to an answer phone. What a great idea!

I have been very concerned by the overuse of cell phones, which, no doubt, has caused many accidents.

How did we communicate before their invention? I even see people walking through supermarkets, talking to someone about their groceries.

I still use a shopping list. How old-fashioned is that?

In some cases the gabby person is downright rude, such as someone in a restaurant who can’t stop talking and puts others in the unwanted position of overhearing intimate details.

It’s time parents put on the brakes with their teenagers about their cell phones. Please don’t wait until your precious child or grandchild is in a tragic accident because someone was gabbing away on his cell phone.

Vivian Robinson
Jamestown