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BH and I both now have the Plantronics ear bud. Nice ear piece that just fits in your ear without a little loopy thing that goes around your ear. (there's gotta be a name for that) It stays in your ear just fine although at first you think it wouldn't. I've never had it just fall out. Yet. It does have one little quirk. If you have the ear piece on you cannot talk on your phone (without the piece) you must use the ear piece to talk or turn the piece off or disconnect from your phone. I cannot tell you how many times BH has answered his phone only to realize that the ear piece is on his desk, turned on. Tuesday we left work together, as we usually do. We drive separate cars to work as we do most days. It was dark when we left and it was the peak of going home traffic. BH exits our strip center and turns left onto the two lane street without signal assistance. This is fine unless it's rush hour or school times. I rarely (never) exit that way, especially in the dark. Instead I slip out the side of the center, make a left (which is illegal and I have to watch for cops) and then turn left at the light. Most times I can get into the flow and get ahead of BH. This day I could not turn left on that little street. There was so much traffic that I decided to keep going right and make a giant retarded U turn to get home. It will cost me a lot more time and I know BH will make it home 2-3 minutes before me causing him to call me to find out where the heck I am. We only use surface streets and there are a couple of bottle necks on our way home. One bottle neck is four corners, I know you don't know where that is but when we first moved to LE it was the only signal in town. It gets quite busy and I always get a little nervous going through it. The second bottle neck especially at this time of night is between the cemetery where there are only 2 lanes and then it widens into 4 and then 6 lanes. The Home Depot, Walgreens etc are to the left and the Target center...

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