Stop calling during your cab ride!(Ethical Dilemma) (Brief article)

• Author: Galanes, Philip

I often receive calls from friends in taxis. These calls are punctuated by instructions to the drivers, and they end when the destination is reached ("I have to pay now"). I end up feeling insulted. Am I being hypersensitive in our time-stressed modern world? -Linda, New York

YOU'RE RIGHT, THESE CHATS are choppy, annoying, and call Into question the intelligence of people who can't entertain themselves for 45 blocks. But sometimes the urge to multitask is unbearable. Don't be shy about pulling the plug. At the first sign of a...