about how many cell phone conversations are you exposed to in an average day?  in an elevator, waiting for the train, standing in line at Patmark, in restaurants, etc...?

does this bother or annoy you in any wway?

is it preferable if the unwanted conversation is in a languae you don't speak, on the theory that it's just background noise you can screen out?

The only time it annoys me is if it's somewhere that should be quiet and they're speaking loudly....dr's office, cinema. Otherwise, it doesn't bother me at all. I can tune it out no matter what language.

Once upon a time, when a person got a phone call, they would retire to their office and hold a polite conversation our of earshot of everyone.

Now, I have to hear the most obnoxious ringtones that no advertiser would ever set a jingle to, and then be serenaded by people bellowing into the God awful things (because the volume and clarity are so lousy) right around my office when I'm trying to get some work done.

Also, I have to endure business contacts asking me for my cell phone number and I have to tell them that I prefer them to call me on my regular business  phone.  They think I some kind of stuck up guy for that but I'm only trying to enforce what I consider to be proper business etiquette.

Thanks for asking.  I've been meaning to rant and rave about this for some time.

to start enforcing cell phone etiquette. People carrying on cellphone consversations at the top of the lungs deserve to have those phones placed in a place in their anatomy exactly opposite of where there mouth is.

I was stuck on the tarmac in Houston yesterday with some asshole in front of me who couldn't believe it when I politely asked him to STFU. The guy had been on his phone at the top of his voice for at least fifteen minutes before I finally  said something, but I was the rude one for complaining. Go figure...

GA That alone is reason enough for pilots to be armed.

Also this bluetooth (or what ever the fuck it is)
makes me crazy, I see people all over the place talking but there in noone  near them , then I realize they have a wireless ear piece.

So now I can go aroung talking to myself and people will think I'm talking on a blue-what-ever-it-is, and that there is someone at the other end of the phone.....Well  now the joke is on them cause I'm  talking to myself cause I AM FUCKING CRAZY.

I just LOVE technology


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the toilet in one of the stalls. What is that? Do they think the normal bathroom sounds don't get picked up by the mouthpiece? Blech. It's not like they are talking about any emergency. Then they compound it by not washing their hands when they come out of the stall.

Too many 'Poppys' in the world.

when in a elevator, and one of these humps starts barking into his cell, i generally get off at the nearest upcomng floor, as i will not allow myself to be subjected to this aural pollution if at all possible.  I did this a few weeks ago, and started to shake my head in disgust at this moron's boorish stupidity.  i'd understand if this guy was an attorney handling death penalty appeals or a surgeon on call 24 hours a day for emergenct brian surgery.  this jerkoff just wanted to firm up his plans with someone who was aiting for him in the lobby!!!  He took exception to my head-shaking,and then berated me for delaying his elevator descent to the lobby.

If I could go back in time and disinvent either the stomic bomb or the vell phone, it's simply no choice at all.

I was recently talking to a young lady who, I had found out earlier, was bulimic, asthmatic, a meth. addict and had several suicide attempts. During our conversation her phone went off with the loudest, most obnoxious ringtone, that could wake the dead, and then have them wanting to blow their brains out. At least it made me want to blow my brains out. I suggested she try something more soothing.

I hate it when on the subway, a person sits right next to me and starts flapping their gums away. T

They get so obnoxiously loud...and get offended when  I give them the STFU look.

Its a cell phone jammer.  Sound like a hoot to me, and I have been tempted.  Every time I save 300 bucks, though, I find something else to spend it on!

I really am a barber. In the middle of a haircut a customer's cell phone will ring and they'll actually answer it, and instead of excusing themselves by telling the caller they are in the barber chair, they will continue to talk while I have to stand there and wait until they are done while other customers are waiting their turn.

So let me say this. You inconsiderate ASSHOLES know who you are. Let me tell you something. You are NOT that important, and neither is your call. Either shut your phone off when entering a service business establishment, or take your cell phone and shove it up your ass you self centered egotestical idiots !!

I HATE when people play low quality music on their cell phones at top volume.  How can they listen to it?  Get a frickin' mp3 player instead of spending $500 on a phone!

I was in a hardware store getting some plumbing advice and buying what I needed and a Lady told me to hush she is on the phone and kindly told her to stick the phone where the sun didn't shine. On another occasion I had a Provider on my time answer her cell several times that killed the moment a few times on me. I noticed in her reviews other guys had the same problem.

I was recently in an office building that housed quite a few law firms.  There was a lawyer on a cell phone waiting for the elevator and he was discussing very proprietary information in ear shot of everyone around him.

If this guy was my lawyer, I'd not only fire him but bring him up on charges with the Bar Association.

What a jerk!

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flush the damn thing down the toilet that way.

In fact, that's one of the best features of the newer micro-phones:  They don't clog the toilet when you flush them.  

from LAX to Santa Barbara (about 2 hours)and one asshole talked into his phone for about 3/4 of the trip. Everyone could hear his side of the conversation. What stupid shit. All I wanted to do was get that moron out of my life.

none of those assholes are walking around with one ear. lol I don't think a jury in the world would convict you for accidently snipping off an ear after hearing your explanation.

You could always claim temporary insanity. The asshole's incessant telephone conversations drove you temporarily insane. lol

I beg to differ.  Try seeing what happens when a lady doesn't turn the damn thing off during a session...you'll hear the buzz incessantly, and maybe have your session clipped.  Talk about a mood wrecker...

What REALLY burns my ass is the mobile networking motorist that can afford a $65,000.00 SUV; but can’t afford (or refuses) to upgrade to a hands-free Bluetooth cell phone that they needn't hold to their ear with one of their two hands vital in controlling their careening 6000lb four wheeled tank.

especially service workers that suspend their conversation with me or suspend their service to me in order to talk on the phone. I don’t mean just answering the phone. I mean LENGTHY conversations. Most especially is true of retail checkout clerks/cashiers. Why can’t they tell the caller they are busy?

She didn't see my turn signal because she was on the phone so she thought I cut her off. The funny was that she was still on the phone when she flipped me off, during which she had NO HANDS ON THE WHEEL! ! !

no, why is it that the mamagement of those establishments can't/won't instruct their workers to leave those damm things in their lockers and not bring them onto the work floor? Cchrist, these clowwns are supposed to be working, not working while waiting for the nexr incredibly trivial and totally unnecessary phone call.

what a plague these things are.  I think our society needs cell phone control as much, if not indeed far more, that gun control.

I have a job where I must confront disagreeable people on a regular basis. I can walk in with my boss already on the phone listening to every threatening, scatological epithet that is thrown at me without the possibly criminally abusive person knowing it.

lack of privacy and that these users really don't expect their privacy.

Personally, I drown it out as background noise.

However, sometimes something catches your attention (baby mama drama, sexual talk, whatever.)

As one of those people who's nearly always on her cell, I try to be polite and never use it in restaurants (too tacky!,) never in an office situation, class, etc... However, I think nothing of talking with my friends on the cell while grocery shopping, waiting in line someplace, bored and waiting for my next class to start, etc... The conversations probably aren't all that important, but at least they're entertaining.

Katie

To me, people yakking on their phones are like people going around picking their noses or loudly chewing gum.  It's just not cool. And should we get into drivers on cell phones. Most are unconscious to their driving.

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