Cell Phone Etiquette

[Katylina]

So I go out to dinner with my boyfriend, and this is where my complaint starts. This older couple (I'd say in their sixties) is at a small table across from ours. The phone rings as the lady is ordering, she picks up the phone and says very loudly, "hold on." Then she gets back on the phone and begins a conversation that was loud enough for me and the table by us to hear. I look over, and her husband is hushing her and telling her to lower her voice. So now, their salads and soup arrive, and the lady says, "Hold on," loudly to the person on the phone and asks the waitress for an extra something or other. She goes back on the phone. They take their salad plates away, and I keep kicking my boyfriend under table to show him that the woman is STILL on the phone. He is trying not to laugh because the elderly man is just sitting there while his wife is jabbering away on her stupid cell phone. So our food comes, we eat; their food comes, they eat, and she still remains on the phone. So it comes time to pay our bill and Jimmy goes up to the counter. At this point I am grabbing my umbrella when the lady (who is still talking on the phone), knocks her drink over the table and her husband. She stops her conversation for one minute to say, "oh did I get it on you?" and then, you guessed it, continues her stupid conversation. Talk about rude! At this point I can't stop laughing and have to make a quick get-away.

I hate people who do not have cell phone etiquette. They should make a handbook for cell phone users in the future. Stupid woman. I bet she is still on that damn cell phone as her husband is contemplating side swiping a bulldozer just to get rid of her.

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[The_Fat_Mole]

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[sr71blackbird]

I agree. I was in 7 Eleven today and this guy comes in while Im at the coffe machine and hes on his cell phone, bullshitting about what he did last night, real loud, practically in my ear, and Im trying to get away. I go to pay and hes right behind me blabbering away, must have been almost out of cell range because hes like spinning around and leaning left and right to get better reception and shit. So annoying! You cant get away from them sometimes. There autta be a law!

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[Heavy]

You should have told her...........SILENCE!!!!!

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Like oh my god, gag me with a spoon moleboy. I thought it was a fair complaint. Do they have cell phones in moley land?

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[The_Fat_Mole]

Oh I'll gag you, but not with a spoon.

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[JohnnyCash]

I hate when people do that. Especially in the movies. It seems that everytime you go to the movies someone is on their cell phone the whole time.

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[sr71blackbird]

THAT should not be tolerated, because with the price we have to pay for a fucking ticket to see a movie, its bad enough I have to sit there behind some big headed oaf, but to force me to have to take a ringing phone and a conversation is too much, Id complain and/or insist on a refund from the manager.

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[more cowbells]

Not quite what Katylina was saying, but on the same line: I was on the train the other day, tired as shit, DYING to catch a nap for a few minutes when this one bitch decides to show off her fuckin cell phone to her friend next to her playing with all of the ring tones on her phone, over and over and over again, giggling like schoolgirls like it's something new! I felt like shoving her damn cellphone down her throat and slapping the giggles out of her friend. Damn, thats ANNOYING!!!

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[Reephdweller]

About two weeks ago I was in a chinese restaurant with my girlfriend and there's this couple at a table across the room from us, maybe 20-25 feet away. The guy at the table is on the phone and he's talking so loudly that we can hear every single thing he's talking about. Do people think that folks on the other end of the phone cannot hear them? Are they the same way with regular phones in their home?

Another place I see this is usually either at an electronics store where some moron is on the phone with his very geeky friend and is just telling him every thing he sees, the price, and whatnot.

The movies though is the absolute worst, I just want to smack the phone out of their fat little paws and stomp on it.

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[Hoojibs]

I was watching Return of the King, when a guy in front of me answers his phone and says, I'm in a movie. I wanted to f'ing take it and throw it, and not to mention another kid who had to check his telephone every minute to see what time it was.


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[MizzleTizzle]

These people inhabit a different World then others, and I mean that literally. We sense our senses, so our World is how we interpret and interact with our perceptions.

And in the Worlds of these people; consideration, or even recognition of the people around them simply does not exist. In Cel-Phone Lady's Universe, Katylina doesn't exist. Not sort of. Exactly and literally. The others around Cel Phone Lady are things, they register somewhere in here brain, but as objects in a field, not as other human beings who might have their own needs and concerns to consider.

To borrow an analogy; Cel Phone Lady, and some others, these are the basement dwellers. They inhabit the basements of their Universe. By choice. They have a lovely house, as we all do, with a first floor [my brit friends call it the Garden floor, i like that]. The first floor is where one can venture outdoors into the real world and interact with others on a real level. But the basement dweller is nice and comfy in their basement; acknowledging the existence of that first floor and its people outside, but choosing to live in the basement.

I want that "HANG UP AND DRIVE" bumper sticker. Assholes.

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[MizzleTizzle]

Perhaps it's a bad analogy, but Cel Phone Lady, like Britney, has her lovely Basement. It's quite simple; she lives there, and comes up often, but the world outside it different. Presenting ones self to the public, whether it's Britney to 20,000 at the Garden, or Cel Phone Lady shouting into a piece of plastic near Kat in a restaurant has repercussions. These folks aren't in their basement anymore, they're outside, and subject to the repercussions of their actions. Meaning we should start clubbing Cel Phone users in Restaurants.

In the basement getting married, or getting married to Ben Affleck or Dennis Rodman or Sean Penn etc, or hitting Record on the camcorder in the hotel room, or whatever; seems like an OK idea. But when we go upstairs and venture out to do what seemed fine isn't. And you suffer the consequences; good or bad.

The first floor is the real world that people interact with and question. The headlines on the TV in the basement are actually occurring outside. Venturing out you can really see the sky and might ask, 'How far is up?' or 'How Deep is the Ocean?' or 'I wonder how these people here feel, and I would wish that my behavior honored and respected them, their own wishes, and their own space, as I would wish they acknowledge and respect mine.

This is the beginning of interacting with the real world.

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[sr71blackbird]

Theres a lot of times when even when Im on my own, and Im having trouble hearing, that, I dont know why, but instinctually I talk louder-thinking it will make it easier for the other person to hear or prompt them louder or whatever. But Im always aware that someone can hear me, and I dont want my converstions broadcast because its rude. The world seems full to the brim with "basement dwellers" and they only learn whats "permitted" by consequences of their own actions. Mostly, they get away with being rude because no one wants to tell them to shut their gutter whore cake hole mouth, Bitch! WooooOOwwWW!!!! I almost lost it there... sorry

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[FUNKMAN]

tough to address:

> let the waiter or owner know you are being disturbed

> say "excuse me, is that an emergency call?" and that you don't mean to be rude but you'd like to enjoy your dinner. You pay for the food and i think you also pay for atmosphere.

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[Katylina]

I enjoyed it more when she spilled the soda everywhere.





In her Universe, Katylina doesn't exist.


For a few minutes, I thought you meant in my own universe Katyilna didn't exist, but upon rereading your post, I realized that you were talking about the woman on the cell phone. You bugged me out there for a second.

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[MizzleTizzle]

Yeah Kat it reads badly; I meant that unless you had stood on your table and done some Coyote Ugly movie style table-top moves, you didn't exist, at least not to the point of Her giving a shit about you, people you were with, etc...

Now about those moves...

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[sr71blackbird]

I thought so too and was confused...
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[MizzleTizzle]

fixed.

not the post; Katylina just ripped my balls off.

ok i fixed the post too.

[high fly]

While I am partial to simply walking over to the offending parties' table, dropping trou, and leaving a nice big stinky "thank you" turd on their table, I realize this solution is not for everyone.

There are millions, make that billions out there to be made by the geek who can come up with a pocket-sized jamming device.
Especially if it can have the added feature of blasting the offending bastard with a painful, ear-splitting noise...

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[Arienette]

yeah, people are incredibly annoying with their cell phones. i generally just turn mine off when i go into movie or resturant, or things like that. i think one of the worst is when people's cell phones go off in class. i've yet to hear someone actually answer the call, but still. what's even worse than that is that sometimes, the people won't turn their phones off, or stop them from ringing. i'd imagine they dont want to make the move for the phone so as not to give themselves away. but that's really bad... not only does the phone keep ringing and disturbing everyone in the class, but it's so obvious where the ringing is coming from anyway, if the embarrassed look of the person trying to seem innocent isnt enough.


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[JustJon]

I hate that. If the woman was really on the phone that long, I would have asked the waiter to go ver to her and say, "would you please SHUT THE HELL UP! thank you."

I put my phone on vibrate whenever I go someplace a phone is not welcome. Many restaurants and movie theaters now have signs say cell phones prohibited.

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[saveopieanthony.net]

this is a big "F.U." to the inconsiderate bastards on the LIRR who have always have their phone on the loudest ring and need to talk to someone..especially on a 7:30 train about their meaningless little lives and include 30 complete strangers in on the conversation. You got to be fucking kidding me. Who is that important that they can't sit down for 40 minutes without having a 20 minute conversation.

Also, you ladies are the worst sometimes...."how are you doing....oh we had a great time...what are you doing this weekend...oh my god...i can't believe he wanted to marry me...yeah...i kept that gift he gave me though..you believe he wanted that 14k gold bracet back? i mean like...is he for real?"

a guy's phone conversation on the LIRR "yo..i'll be in the city in 30" or "pick me up in 30"



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[high fly]

I also meant to say that this is more evidence that the barbarians are at the gates.

(I like dropping that one)



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[Fallon]

Yesterday on my way home from work the bus driver missed a ladys stop because he was talking on his cell phone. What a dick!

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[Reephdweller]

I meant that unless you had stood on your table and done some Coyote Ugly movie style table-top moves, you didn't exist



I think we're gonna need to test this theory out.

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[ag]

Do they have cell phones in moley land?
No just jackass' who think others are JAPS<P>Personally I would have kindly asked the old cunt to get off her cell phone because it's rude to be jabering on in a restraunt no less. I have NO tollerance for that kind of shit, if that didnt work I would have gone one step further and grabbed a manager and told them about the problem. An old piece of shit like that should have more manners than that.

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