Cell Phone Stupidity

MargaretAnne · Dec 21, 2005

Here's a website with some very amusing comments about cell phones:

It’s not like this is a new gripe. But yesterday I had no less than three encounters with stupid, obnoxious people doing stupid, obnoxious things with cell phones.

Maybe travel accentuates these stupidities, I don’t know. But here are the three things that really confounded me:

I’m in Dulles airport waiting for my plane. President Bush is speaking to the nation live, and people are gathered around in the area by the TV to listen. In the midst of this crowd is a middle-aged man with a booming voice talking away on his cell phone, ordering his minions to do this and that. So instead of hearing the president (try to) speak, we’re listening to this loud-mouthed man, completely oblivious to everyone around him.

I’m in Denver airport which for those of you who’ve never been is one very very very long airport. My plane lands at gate B2. My connecting flight (naturally) is at gate B61 - the entire opposite end of the concourse. People are rushing to catch connecting flights, most using the moving walkways. Suddenly, like a cat who makes a snap decision that it must be somewhere else in the house right now this guy just stops walking. Why? At that moment he decided he must find his cell phone and make a call. So now he’s stopped, and people are trying to squeeze by him. He fumbles with the phone and it slips out of his hands. At this point, an elderly lady bumps into him and nearly falls. A man reaches out to catch her, which causes a domino effect of people bumping into one another and one small child caught in the melee to get whacked in the head by someone’s backpack. The guy who started all this drama never once looked back, or apologized, or even showed the slightest indication that he was aware of what havoc he’d just caused.

I’m in the ladies room doing what ladies do in those rooms. What on earth is with the need to have a phone conversation in a public restroom? I’m seeing this more and more and it’s a deeply disturbing trend. Woman gets into the stall, pulls her panties down to do her thing, and promptly takes out her phone to make a call. So not only does everyone else in the restroom trying to do their thing have to be party to her pee - splattered conversation, but what of the poor person on the other end of the line?

Please, please, unless you’re very ill or dying or in some dire predicament, please don’t ever call me while you’re on the toilet, okay?
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Cell Phone Stupidity

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Cell Phone Etiquette

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interval_illusion · Dec 21, 2005

most was lame but i agree with the bath room thing
i see it all the time

and im almost afraid to pee thinking its rude to the reciever or the call but yah it is a bathroom

fitzy21 · Dec 21, 2005

whats wrong with having conversations while your going to the bathroom...me and my friends see nothing wrong with it...we have conversations while taking a dump....it makes the whole process more relaxed....

MargaretAnne · Dec 21, 2005

interval_illusion said:

most was lame but i agree with the bath room thing
i see it all the time

and im almost afraid to pee thinking its rude to the reciever or the call but yah it is a bathroom
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There's a time and a place for everything. I think someone should be able to refrain from using the telephone while using the bathroom. Some things in this world should still be kept private. I certainly wouldn't find it entertaining if I was on the other end of the line.

Not only that but how many germs do you think are accumulating on the surface of that cell phone? I hope that the people that do this wash their phone from time to time.

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