How do we solve a problem like Maria?
Posted by PaulOct 15
Well now, Aah-nold is upset with the princess bride!
I know this happened yesterday, and it’s already old news, but it is an issue.
DWT.
Driving while talking (on the phone).
GUILTY!
Just call me Maria.
Maria Shriver, wife of the California Govenor, Niece of JFK, Teddy, and Bobby, and daughter of Eunice Shriver (whom I really like, thanks for the Special Olympics!!), was caught by the “incredibly reliable source” of TMZ talking on her cell phone while driving WITHOUT A HEADSET. (TMZ, the TV gossip show, to which I’m secretly addicted, but will lie and deny ever having seen it from here on.)
OH – MY- COW!

Oh, and they have evidence.
This could get sticky.
AP news source is reporting that the Gov. is “calling out his wife” (hopefully, not while she’s driving) for violating what he signed into law.
Well now, I guess all marriages aren’t perfect.
Apparently.statewide there is a $20 fine for the first offense. It escalates (oh..she was driving and Escalade, BTW) from there. However, in Brentwood, where they live, the fine is $93 and the second one $201. (And yes, it costs more to do everything in Brentwood.)
How will she pay it? – I suppose all those Hollywood types could take a few bucks from the “Roman Polanski Defense Fund” (yes, there really is one.) and hurl it Maria’s way.
On his Twitter (love it) feed, Gov. S. said that “there would be swift action.”
His spokesman translated that for the public as meaning, “he’ll ask her to stop talking on the phone while driving”.
Well duh!
For the Love of Liz Taylor, don’t you think someone who makes $20 million dollars a movie could afford to buy his wife a Bluetooth?
C’mon Arnie, pony up!
(and to the rest of you out there, practice “safe phone”…don’t talk and drive, unless it’s hands-free!)

4 comments
Comment by zola on October 15, 2009 at 11:32 am
I thought DWT was “Dancing with the Stars” But then I guess that would be DWTS, right? How does one keep all these accronyms straight???
Comment by Jenny (your lovely niece)! on October 15, 2009 at 1:05 pm
{hangs head in shame} I have a bluetooth but have NO IDEA where it is! I don’t talk and drive *much* but I need to find that bluetooth so I am prepared. Oh and LOVE the Sounds of Music reference. I may or may not sometimes sing that song to my daughter with “sophia” instead of “maria”!
Comment by Paul on October 15, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Yes, but did you get the BBT reference?
UP
Comment by Jenny (your lovely niece)! on October 15, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Oh yes, I did! OH! MY! COW!