Hands Free?

I recently purchased a hands free earpiece for my cell phone. A neat little gadget I've found, that plugs right into my phone and shoots concentrated sound directly at my eardrum. I until now I have been notorious for driving while talking on the phone, and quickly throwing said phone on my lap mid-sentence because I spotted the fuzz lurking in the shadows. With my new earpiece, I am offically hands free.

What I don't think the hands-free manufacturers realize however, it that being hands-free only means I gesture more vehmently with my "free" hands while driving. 90% of the time, you really only need one hand to drive, especially if you are on the highway as I often am with my commute. My roommate doesn't even need that, she uses her knees to drive. But without needing one hand on the phone and one on the steering wheel, my arm is given free reign to flail about the car as if detached from my body. I personally think this only increases the chance for an accident. People are probably very distracted by the crazy redhead who is talking to........ herself and waving her arms emphatically while driving. I mean, I would find that distracting.

But regardless, I am following the letter of the law and using a hands-free phone to talk while I drive. As a self-proclaimed, TERRIBLE correspondent, I have a tendency of letting weeks, ok, months go by without calling my friends. This is not because I don't want to talk with them or because I am too busy to call, but simply because I just never get around to it. My new apartment is about 20 miles from where I work and the commute to work about 25-30 minutes. I am making the grand gesture and using this time as "talk to my friends" time. So far it has been great, I know that Laura and I will be driving to Boston together for our reunion and that Anna has recently repaired her bike and will be using it (not getting hit by a car as she fears) to explore the streets of Boston. And it's great because it's time I can't be doing anything else, except driving, so I have a lot of incentive to call. Now I have absolutely no excuse for not calling:)