Somehow the conversation in my Sunday School class last week turned from the Ten Commandments to Tennessee’s new hands-free mobile phone law.
Apparently, Moses didn’t anticipate cellphones, or at least not Bluetooth.
Get ready. Two weeks from tomorrow, July 1, Tennessee drivers will face a $50 fine for holding a phone while driving. Fines of $100 to $200 can be imposed for repeat offenders and those who violate the law in school or roadwork zones.
The consensus among my church buddies is that the new law is a good safety measure, and several said they are making plans to comply. We are rule followers, so having an actual law is the nudge some of us need to do the right thing.
One person said they saw a funny picture – anticipating the hands-free law. It was a man with a flip phone duct-taped to his head.