Posted On: June 2, 2008, 1:36 pm CDT

Posted By: Reality Bites

I stopped using my cell phone in the car.

I found that it made doing the NY Times Sunday Magazine crossword impossible - in ink, of course.

So, then I stopped doing the crossword because even though my drive was long, it sometimes took a couple of commutes to complete each one, with all that "outside" interference from other drivers.

Then I found Sudoku. It required almost as much attention, but at least I could complete one of the easy ones during an average ride.

Then I stopped the Sudoku because with $4.25 gas, I bought a motorcycle. The paperbacks kept getting blown off the gas tank so I painted the tank like a blackboard for solitary Tic Tac Toe.

Now that I am laid up at home with two broken legs (another driver was at fault, of course), I am catching up on all those Sunday Times crossword puzzles.