cell phones

Hello, I am pretty laid back most of the time, but if I see someone yapping on a cell phone, I get enraged. I just want to beat them over the head with their phone.

It used to be just seeing soccer moms in their escalades yapping away in a 2 1/2 ton death machine was enough to get my blood to boil. Now it is anywhere, be it a store, a restaurant, or some tool walking down the street, I see it and Im pissed.

What is so danged important? Are they so lonely that they need attention? I mean come on, cram it up yer butt and live your life already.
I really want to buy one of those scramblers and fry any phone in a 30 meter perimeter of me. Evil evil evil invention. I am also fed up with the lame excuse...what if I break down somewhere? I may have broken down once in ten years. Even then one can find a phone pretty much anywhere.

Perhaps I am too harsh, but I am feeling invaded and I fear I may lash out soon. Go away phones

Cell phones do have there place in the scheme of things ... but I totally agree that in a drivers hands and at their ear is NOT one of them. Neither is anytime you are in public ... it shows not only disrespect but a total lack of manners IMHO.

Actually, while managing a convenience store, I refused to wait on a customer because he was talking on a cell phone and just pointing.

While standing at the register, he pointed to the wall behind me ... I turned and looked...turned back around and said "Those are cigarettes". Still talking on the phone, he then took a pack of Camels out of his pocket to show me ... I said "Yes, those are cigarettes too." When he held up one finger and pointed at the pack of Camels is when I went into total pi**ed off mode and looked him straight in the eye and said "When you treat the people... that are here to serve you ... with respect and give them your undivided attention (without the phone at your ear) we will do our job. Until then please step aside and let me wait on someone who has some manners." I believe he was in total shock because he hung up the phone without saying another word into it and .... APOLOGISED !!!! After that time he never once came into the store talking on the phone. (but he did come in ... daily) and always had a smile for whoever was behind the counter.

The moral to this story is ... make your feelings known without going into a rage and just MAYBE 1 person will pay attention. Of course, the one's that are behind a wheel still enrage me 'cause there's no way to get their attention without slamming into them. Which I'm truly tempted to do occasionally!

meeh....

As unhealthy as it is to constantly use and abuse your cell phone, it's equally unhealthy to loathe every person who uses one...

Responsibility goes a bit deeper then the manner in which you communicate...

First impressions are highly overrated....

I hate going to the grocery and getting behind someone just chit-chatting away on their cell phones without a care in the world. And then the cashier gets done ringing up all of their items:

Clerk: That will be $87.64

Cell Phone User: Excuse me?

Clerk: That will be $87.64

Cell Phone User: Do you take checks?

And then they start digging in their purse and start writting out a check. Where if they would have had any courtesy for the other people in line they would have the check allready made out.

[edit on 11/28/2005 by Classified Info]

I'm kind of wondering how that relates to cell phones though...

Seems more like an issue with multitasking or productivity...

Who's to say if that person put down their cell phone that they could actually concentrate on the task-at-hand well enough to speed things along??

The cell phone may indeed be an accomplice, but it is never the actual culprit....

Cellphones are a device of the Devil...ooops sorry that was uncalled for. I mean really, its not the cellphones fault that people are so rude as to have their arguments with their insignificant other while in a resturant, or in the checkout line in the grocery store. It's not the cellphones fault that morons drive their big honkin' red dodge ram pickups through a red light and nearly T-bone me in my little teeny tiny Oldsmobile. No, not at all. It's the utter and complete lack of common courtisy (canna spell) on the part of their users.

I only have a cell phone for emergencies. I have 4 kids in school and may need to be contacted for one of them. Other than That I barely use it.

I dont get people who go mad about their cellphones (my mum is one of them) downloading pictures and ringtones and subscribing to this, that and the other.

Quite frankly I think its sad. As long as I can make a call and recieve one on my phone then I am happy.

Altho I asked for a new onw for christmas coz I wanted a pink one but thats just the girly in me

One thing I hate is people calling over cellphone who get irritated when you make them repeat what they said because of bad reception. They start to get rude with you when the flow of the conversation does not go as smooth as on regular phone line. I hate that.

For some reason those people fail to realize that a cellphone is just that, a radio transmitter. If the cops and firefighters have to repeat almost everything they say twice over their $7000 mobile radios, how much more quality can you expect from a tiny $20 cellphone? Oh, well.

I was in France over the summer, and we were in the train (i have nothing against french people), and every f'''''g 3 minutes, we would hear this loud annoying ringtone going off. and these people are far from quiet. they talk loud. just makes me want to go

My parents have cellphones... for emergencies only. They use them like once every two months. That's the only time I find it acceptable. It's annoying and rude most of the time when people use them. I take time to meet with someone or help them for no benefit other than being nice and they get a phone call in the middle of it and I have to sit for 20 minutes while they talk on the phone outside.

Or I'm standing in line and someone is yammering away on the phone as loud as they can as if they were sitting at home.

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I hate them too, especially when people are just walking down the street with the hands-free headphones and microphone apparently just talking to themselves.

Nowadays it's impossible to tell who's really crazy, everyone looks like they're talking to themselves!