Maybe the DuBois family should all chip in and get Allison a Bluetooth headset
October 21, 2009 by Kona Gallagher
I love reading your comments, because so often I find that you’re thinking the exact same thing that I am. In this case, it’s that Allison Needs. To. Get. Off. The. Phone. There was an extended scene in last week’s episode in which Allison was driving and talking to Joe on the phone. The point of the scene is that the street signs were covered in the symbols left by the Libra Killer, but all I and a lot of you were thinking was, “hang up, Allison! Hang up!”
Technically, since Allison isn’t a school bus driver, she wasn’t breaking any laws, as that is the only group for whom a cell phone ban is in place while driving in Arizona. But, come on. Not only has Allison had at least a couple of car accidents before, but the lady just had a stroke. Half of her body doesn’t completely work. Whether she should even be driving yet in the first place is debatable, but having an extended conversation with the phone up to her ear? Not the brightest idea in the world.
So you have a woman with a history of car accidents, who has recently recovered from a brain tumor and a subsequent stroke driving a car while having a cell phone conversation. On top of all that, she is hallucinating. Yet even when she starts seeing things that aren’t there, she still doesn’t get off the phone right away. She talked so long while clearly disoriented that it was almost funny.
Bluetooth headsets are cheap. I got mine for like $30 at Best Buy, and it works great with my iPhone. It looks like Allison has a Motorola Razr, so this headset would probably work for it, and it’s under $20. I know times are tough and the economy’s bad, but Joe just got a fancy new job that sounds like it pays well, and I’m sure the girls have some money squirreled away in their piggy banks. Surely they can scrape together enough funds to keep their mother from busting the car to pieces in the middle of an intersection– again.
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I thought she was on the cell phone too long too. Joe should also know better than to keep her on the phone so long given her accident record and stroke driving.
“She talked so long while clearly disoriented that it was almost funny.” So true!
She has had quite a few accidents thinking about it.
I’ve always had issues with her mobile phone usage whilst driving, probably because it’s against the law here and has been for a good few years. If you get caught (I say ‘if’), I think (I still don’t drive) it’s punishable by three penalty points and around the equivalent of a $100 fine. Not worth the risk, although Allison doesn’t tend to be talking on the mobile when her kids are in the car. She mostly tends to be alone as far as I recall.
“So you have a woman with a history of car accidents, who has recently recovered from a brain tumor and a subsequent stroke driving a car while having a cell phone conversation. On top of all that, she is hallucinating. Yet even when she starts seeing things that aren’t there, she still doesn’t get off the phone right away. She talked so long while clearly disoriented that it was almost funny.”
ahahah! it’s true…very funny!
In Italy is against the law driving while you are on the cell phone, so Allison don’t get a good example…In my car i’ve the Bluetooth in the radio, so I’ve no problem to talk on the cell phone…
Good idea, the Bluetooth headset!
LOL I’d forgotten about that. I was thinking the same thing–Get off the phone!–right before she slammed to a halt at the stop sign. A Bluetooth is a good idea. It drives me nuts to see people driving while talking because they are usually easy to spot–driving too slow and veering around in the lane. Although talking on the phone while completely distracted does seem like something Allison would do.
for once I have to disagree. Its another element of the show that is realistic. who dosent drive and talk at the same time? almost everybody does. I do. that is one of my favorite thingsabout the show. The do ll these different fictional scenarios and they do it with staying as real as possible.
Kona, did you hear me screaming at the TV to STOP TALKING! HANG UP! LOL! I can’t believe she’s driving and even worse, Joe is talking away to her when he can tell she is clearly in the car! Duh!
Is anyone else ready for Allison to get rid of the Volvo already? Joe’s car always looks shiny and new and Allison is still driving that old Volvo. Enough! Give the Volvo to Ariel and get a new car already.
Where I live on Long Island it is illegal for several years now to talk on a cell phone while driving. A few of my friends have been ticketed for it so we just don’t do it. So for me watching Allison talking on the cell phone while driving is noticeable. I hate watching people from other states talk on the phone while driving since we don’t do it here and it can cause an accident.
Allison talks on her cell phone a lot with Joe. Joe seems to be keeping her on the phone.
I agree with Aaron. Who DOESN’T do it? I mean, Maria Shriver got caught doing it recently, and she’s the governor’s wife! It’s not uncommon, and while there (and should be) laws against it, lots of people still do it. I do agree that the use of a headset is crucial though. I personally don’t use one, but only because my car has built-in Bluetooth, which I LOVE! Maybe Allison should think about getting a headset though.
Also, I don’t know where y’all are getting all these accidents that Allison’s supposed to have been in. I can only recall one that she was actually in, and a couple of near-misses. The one in Be Kind, Rewind shouldn’t count cause that was in a dream, lol! It never actually happened.
Jmo.
Dawn, I to believe the OP and the other comments are refering to all the vehicular accidents Allison has either caused herself or had happen to her in real life or in her dreams.
#1. “Coming Soon (S1)” – Allison purposely rams the back of Good Samaritan’s car in order to keep him within the Phoenix PD’s jursidction, because she thinks the red haired girl from her dream is dead, wrapped up in a carpet of the Samaritan’s trunk.
#2. “The Reckoning (S2)” – Allison accidently hits a girl, who ran out into the street after her dog, with her car. It turns out it was a vision of something that happened with a woman (Nadine) — that she meets in a diner while waiting for the gas station to check her headlights— and her husband on Nadine’s birthday.
#3. “Death Takes a Policy (S2)” – Allison is talking on the phone to one of Ariel’s teachers and is nearly T-Boned by a truck in the intersection she frequents and believes Death is trying to tell her that her number is up.
#4. “Be Kind, Rewind (S3)” – Allison is talking on her cell phone to Joe about going to pick up Ariel from school (because Ariel fears a girl is going to beat her up over being placed at the top of the “Hot” List) and is blindesided by a speeding car, belonging to that of a Lawyer. As a result she loses her legs, but wakes up and realizes its was all a dream.
#5. “Then …And Again (S5)” Joe reveals to Marie that Allison was in a car accident when she was nine months pregnant with her, back in 2004. She got blindsided by a truck for a plumbing company (Klog King).
Yes, but as you pointed out, only two of those actually happened. The others were either near-misses or dreams of accidents that never actually happened. The ones that never actually happened shouldn’t be held against her, don’t you think?
Nope, they shouldn’t
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