Cell phone usage

[disdreams]

Has this been brought up yet??


I don't know about everyone else, but I am tired of listeneing to everybody's conversations everywhere I go. Even just hearing phones ring constantly is getting on my nerves (all those ringtones...it sounds like a kids toystore). When I go out to eat I don't want to hear some girl in the booth behind me fighting with her boyfriend, or some teenager cussing her head off, or all the details about someones marriage woes. I know it's just a fact of life in this day and age, so I have learned to get used to it, but....

I have seen women walk into a public restroom, chatting on thier phone, go into the stall.... pee....still keep talking, then walk out and still keep chatting. What has this world come to if you can't take 5 minutes to pee without talking to your friend while doing so?

I have gone shopping with friends who talk to other friends on thier phone while we shop. That's not fun to me. While getting my haircut recently, it seemed that almost everyone in there's phones ran and every single one of those people answered thier phone...while someone was trying to cut thier hair. On of the patrons was getting her hair shampooed and was talking on her phone. One guy actually took his cape off and went outside for a couple of minutes, then came back......the lady doing his hair just had to wait. I'm sure that puts them behind schedule.

I have been at the grocery store, in the checkout when someones phone rings and they answer it and proceed to stop doing everything, hold up the line, just to chat with someone.

If it's important, I don't see a problem, but I think things have gotten out of hand a bit. People talk really loudly and a lot of the time it is just two people chatting about nothing.

Personally, I need my peace and quiet and I don't give my cell phone number out to everyone. If someone wants to call me they have my home number. If it's important, they will leave a message or call back. When I shop, I want to enjoy the shopping trip and not talk on the phone the whole time. That's just me, though.

Does this bother anyone else?

 

[bjgrazi]

Sometimes I don't understand why people complain about others walking and using a cell phone. Isn't it the same as 2 people walking and talking?

I can understand the ringing being annoying to people, but to me thier conversation is no different that if they were with someone and talking.

I would find it rude if I were out with someone and the continually hold conversations on the phone. If I'm out and get a call, I say a quick hello and I tell them I'll call you back later.

I walk into ladies rooms all the time with friends or daughter and we continue to talk.

 

[ptcruisermom]

alot of time on on my cordless phone at home and have to pee and I do so all the while talking. I'm getting old and can't hold it anymore

 

[DCLuvinit]

What annoys me are the phones with the two-way radios - and I have one!! Whenever I am in public and someone calls me on it, I turn the speaker off and use the two-way privately.

 

[powellrj]

Sorry, but I am one of those people who will talk anywhere on my phone. DS is stationed overseas, Germany and now Iraq, and he can only call at certain times so I will take his call no matter where I am or what I am doing. When I am in church or at a movie I will turn it on vibrate and leave before I talk, but I have talked to him in restrooms, the grocery store, anytime he calls I anwser. To outsiders it may seem like chitchat, but trust me I would never miss one of his call for anything. Its been 4 weeks since I have talked to him and I would sit in a public restroom for a few minutes of his voice.

 

[Pin Wizard]

You're the exception that we don't mind, Powell. But to be in the food store and see a guy totally clueless as to which brand of ketchup to buy without calling the wife while there is ridiculous! LOLOL! And I see it too often. At least I did when I lived in FL...the younger and middle age guys. I haven't seen it yet in VA.

 

[JetMom]

I used to work retail, and it really annoyed me when people would come to the register talking on the phone. i would feel like I was interrupting them to tell them their toatl and ask for payment. Let alone trying to provide any type of info on specials etc.

If I were to wait on a customer while talking on the phone, I am sure that the customer would have a problem with it (and rightly so).

It is just as rude to the clerk if the customer is talking.

 

[disdreams]

I'm not against people using them. I just think there are inappropriate times when people do use them. It's rude, and even disrespectful, at times. On Easter I heard cell phones going off during mass. I hear them go off in movie theaters, too, and people proceed to hold loud conversations in there. That's rude.

 

[Jolie C]

It doesn't really bother me when people are talking on their cell, but it always throws me for a second when they have the ones with the earpiece and they aren't holding anything and they just suddenly start talking to what appears to be no one. I can't help but glance around to see who they are talking to, before I realize they are on the phone!

 

[shortbun]

I've been forgetting to turn mine off lately when I'm in DS's
school. It's gone off twice at bad times. I'm gonna get a
reputation. I don't use mine in public usually. I normally
go off where I won't bother anyone and I prefer others do the
same. I sure am glad they invented them though, it makes
my life a whole lot easier and safer.

 

[CALIFLADY]

The excessive use of cell phones is greater here than in the US. EVERYONE has one here. But! The great part is that is all but prohibited to use them on public transportation. So, you never hear them on the trains or buses or subways. If a phone does ring while on public transportation, the phone owner collects 4 dozen dirty looks from other passengers and promptly turns it off! It's really peaceful. And when people do use them in other places (while standing in the check out line, etc) they always cover their mouth and the receiver, so you can't hear any of it going on. They really have figured out a system of "respectful use" over here. Maybe the US could learn a thing or two?

 

[Dan Murphy]

I use my phones a lot. The main thing that of late grates on me is, as disdreams puts it, the toystore-like ringtones from newer phones. Seems like people are trying to outdo others with the creativeness of the ring. I like a plain, simple, single tone ring, sounds like a ring. My newer phone is capable of those rings, actually does not have a single tone ring. I have it set only to vibrate, never ring, always.