In Ontario, the provincial government enacted a new law banning the use of cellphones while driving (unless a hands-free device is being used) on Monday. The fine for committing the infraction can go as high as five hundred dollars. (To you Americans, that’s like four hundred and ninety five dollars.)

For work, I do a lot of driving around. Usually, while driving, my cellphone doesn’t ring. I’m not in that much demand.

Yesterday, the first day of this new rule and poof, my cellphone kept ringing and ringing and ringing. And I was driving downtown. There was no place to pull over. Sure, every street was moving at a snail’s pace. I could have easily managed to operate both the car and the cellphone at the same time. Not like I was actually moving.

In Toronto, there is this by-law that during the summer, cars cannot idle for more than three minutes. I see a lot of tickets being handed out this coming summer. (It baffles me as to how Toronto runs a deficit every year when everything they do taxes the crap out of everybody and everything.)

This morning, on the way to work, I passed two cars pulled over to use their cellphones. It was 6:15am. Who the hell else is awake to talk to on at that ungodly hour of the day? They must have been talking to each other.