Laura, I am sure you will appreciate this story. My teenage sons were at Universal Studios doing their own thing while I was riding MIB. We were going to meet up later for lunch. So I called my oldest son's cellphone and they were at the Horror Makeup Show. Mark James stopped the scripted part of the show and looked right at my sons when the phone rang. My son decided not to answer since everyone was now staring at him. So Mark James told him to hand the phone to him on stage. Mark then answered the phone and talked to me for several minutes. He asked me how my day was going, what my score on MIB was, and where we were planning on eating. He recommended some food choices and then told my sons where and when to meet me. He continued to chit-chat for awhile before saying goodbye and handing the phone back to my son.
It was funny to me but embarrassing to my sons as the rest of the day we had people coming up to my son asking him if I was the "Mommy." Since then, he always turns off his phone before going into the Horror Make-up Show.



I LOVE that show!!! once, when he staggered on the stage, SPOILER ALERT.....
"bleeding, dying," he reached out to me for help. (I was picked! yea!) and then he asked for a kiss. so I did! I guess that doesn't happen often, cause then he said "now how about how the French do it?" (usualy the girl doesn't help, and he later in the show keeps splattering her with fake blood, but I didn't know that at the time).
anyhow, I can't believe how self-important people are with their cell phones. I wait tables, and have often had people tell me they're ready to order, then their phone rings,.. they take the call! and expect me to stand there, halfway through the table's order, and wait until they are done with their call! while I am very busy. or people in a checkout line, in the middle of a transaction, making the checkout person (and everyone else in line) wait while
"can't you see? I'm on the phone!?" when I tended bar, I and say, 3 other people were in a conversation. one person's phone rings. she answers it right there, in the middle of a conversation..... then, as the rest of us continue the conversation, shoots us dirty looks for NOT stopping talking until she is done., again
"can't you see I'm on the phone?" (the rest of us just kept talking louder, she eventually took her phone and walked off into the hallway).