MWTK: How do you answer the phone while driving?

Maxo · 25-09-2008, 12:58 PM

Well there is that post about people talking on the phone .. while driving.. or something...

MWTK how you answer your phone while you are driving.

People who don't talk on their phone while driving need not join in.

Hewie · 25-09-2008, 01:04 PM

*hear phone ringing*

Pull up at next set of lights .... pull out phone .... hit missed call .... wait for it to connect

Then scream

IM ON THE BIKE ILL CALL YA BACK LATER

Maxo · 25-09-2008, 01:07 PM

^
my phone rolls around in the undertail compartment most of the time.

Usually it answers itself!!!

Sometimes it rings people too!

lee · 25-09-2008, 01:10 PM

I tend to go "HAY GUY/BITCH, WHATS GOIN ON?"

panic · 25-09-2008, 01:12 PM

me: hello, i'm driving can i call you back?
them: oh it wont take long...
me: sorry, gotta go (hang up)

if i dont, they call repeatedly untill i answer, i'm kinda expected to be reachable at all times.

i'd use the headset but with all the messing around connecting and disconnecting it (i'm in and out of the cage a dozen times on average each day), plus the halving of battery life of the phone, it never gets turned on.

Teej · 25-09-2008, 01:14 PM

I press the little 'Answer Phone' button and start talking.

Bendito · 25-09-2008, 01:18 PM

I'm not often in the car, but if I am, and it rings, I'll just answer normally and keep it short.
Don't expect a decent conversation though

ducati748-848 · 25-09-2008, 01:36 PM

Work phone gets the business answer and the private gets what ever I come out with depending on the person calling.

Desmogod · 25-09-2008, 01:36 PM

Langtrees, how may I service you?

Rider · 25-09-2008, 02:55 PM

Dont do much driving thse days BUT it really depands who it is...

If i want to talk to them i would say hey i am driving so if i hang up its cos there are cop next to me

If i dont want to talk to them i will say i am driving and that i will call them back

EDIT: I am capable of driving and talking and IMO anyone who cant do it is a retard

semi · 25-09-2008, 02:58 PM

I take 2 hands off the wheel, and accelerate/brake wildly. I usually put my newspaper down too, its distracting on the phone

Taz · 25-09-2008, 04:10 PM

hit the button on the blueant earpeice and talk

Bunyack · 25-09-2008, 04:20 PM

my phone is kooool.

you press the top left button 3 times and it switches to handsfree-loudspeaker. through the phone on the passenger seat and have a conversation.

FJ Steve · 25-09-2008, 04:33 PM

waiting for the new Bluetoof kit to be installed into the go-kart. Then I will be totally legal when hooning.

If it's someone I know who's ringing (and it's not business) then I usually come up with a "talk fast it's your money"...or "City Morgue, you kill 'em we chill 'em"... or the most simple one is "Joe's pizzas"..the repsonse then is usually **cough cough** **splutter** "is that....um....is that Steve?"

Teedo · 25-09-2008, 07:00 PM

I push Answer then Loud Speaker and sit it in center console

esquire · 25-09-2008, 11:21 PM

I either flip it open and yell "DRIVING AARGH!!!!" or put it on speaker and put it on the console/passenger seat.

padfoot · 25-09-2008, 11:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hewie

*hear phone ringing*

Pull up at next set of lights .... pull out phone .... hit missed call .... wait for it to connect

Then scream

IM ON THE BIKE ILL CALL YA BACK LATER

Might try this one...

Don't answer the phone in the car, because I don't have one anymore... But I used to use a Blueant handsfree speakerphone thingy.
And I do have a bluetooth headset for the helmet, but it never gets used.

thro · 26-09-2008, 01:11 AM

I fumble around blindly, drop it in the gap between the console and the seat, steer with my knees whilst i retrieve it, then examine it for scratches, give the screen a quick wipe, look at the number, and then press "speaker" whilst holding it about 3 inches in front of my nose with my right hand so i can gesticulate with my left.

... oh wait thats 50% of perth drivers....

edit:

Quote:

EDIT: I am capable of driving and talking and IMO anyone who cant do it is a retard

Quite sure you can, 99% of the time. What opened my eyes and stopped me doing it though was that I started a call in one suburb, got off the call in another suburb, and had no fucking recollection of any of the traffic conditions i had passed through on the way there.

Just like I can, and have driven before (when i was younger and stupider) after say 12 beers without incident. Its all good until something unexpected happens...

Nero Diablo · 26-09-2008, 07:56 AM

I don't thats what the missed call/message bank is for.

Rider · 26-09-2008, 09:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thro

I fumble around blindly, drop it in the gap between the console and the seat, steer with my knees whilst i retrieve it, then examine it for scratches, give the screen a quick wipe, look at the number, and then press "speaker" whilst holding it about 3 inches in front of my nose with my right hand so i can gesticulate with my left.

... oh wait thats 50% of perth drivers....

edit:

Quite sure you can, 99% of the time. What opened my eyes and stopped me doing it though was that I started a call in one suburb, got off the call in another suburb, and had no fucking recollection of any of the traffic conditions i had passed through on the way there.

Just like I can, and have driven before (when i was younger and stupider) after say 12 beers without incident. Its all good until something unexpected happens...

That happens to me with out the phone convo

Just for the record it is proven that its not holding the phone that distracts the drivers it is the conversation that distracts drivers. So using a hands free is loud speacker is even worse as people relax more and they pay less attention.

Problem is that people put the conversation as a No1 priority and driving No2 and it should be other way around.