From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Calvin Henry-Cotnam  wrote:   
   >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.   
      
   To repeat myself for the monstrously oblivious, that has nothing to do   
   with distracted driving, the topic under discussion. The caller cannot   
   force the called party to answer the call. The calling party's expectations   
   that the call would be answered are irrelevant to distracted driving.   
      
   >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.   
      
   Does not parse; in fact, you contradicted yourself.   
      
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