From: calvin@remove.daxack.ca   
      
   Adam H. Kerman (ahk@chinet.com) said...   
   >   
   >Calvin Henry-Cotnam  wrote:   
   >   
   >>I was following up to a post that commented on how the expectations of   
   >>people making a call to someone expect an immediate interruption of   
   >>what they are currently doing in a way that someone present would not.   
   >>I commented that I believe that this expectation tends to affect the   
   >>way people react when on the receiving end of a telephone call, and then   
   >>opined that this extends to the issue of using a phone while driving.   
   >   
   >That has to do with whether the called party answers the call, which   
   >the calling party does not control, so not comparable.   
      
   It's not a matter of the two being "comparable". The original example was   
   specifically about the expectation that someone being called will answer,   
   regardless of what they are currently doing.   
      
   I took "telephone culture", the phenomena that leads to this expectation,   
   and expanded on it with the example of how people get caught up in a   
   phone conversation, regardless of who made and who received the call, in   
   a way that face-to-face communication does.   
      
   --   
   Calvin Henry-Cotnam   
   "Unusual or extreme reactions to events caused by negligence   
    are imaginable, but not reasonably foreseeable"   
     - Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, May 2008   
      
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