Hang up and eat!

Shelley - please buy me a jammer too!

Will do--in the meantime, everytime someone is yacking on the phone within earshot, I plan on whipping out a kazoo and playing "Battle Hymn of the Republic."

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Will do--in the meantime, everytime someone is yacking on the phone within earshot, I plan on whipping out a kazoo and playing "Battle Hymn of the Republic."

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Heck with a kazoo. I like to fake an episode of Tourettes, or simply respond to everything they utter. If they look at me funny I tell them not to interrupt me when I'm talking to my imaginary friends.

p.s. Oh, yes--I have done this in public....

They talk really loud too. Do they think they are impressing those around them by sharing their personal business with strangers? I'm never impressed with rudeness or lack of manners.

Admittedly I do have an I-phone. However, it's usually buried so deep in the endless recesses of my BAP, that there is no chance of reaching it, let alone hear it when it rings. I like my phone, but it has not taken over my life or my manners.

Yeah, why do they ALL have to talk so LOUD??
That's my biggest pet peeve. :shock: Plus the fact that no one ever seems embarrassed.

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Yeah, why do they ALL have to talk so LOUD??
That's my biggest pet peeve. :shock: Plus the fact that no one ever seems embarrassed.

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You'll LOVE this--the Giant Cellphone

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Yeah, why do they ALL have to talk so LOUD??
That's my biggest pet peeve. :shock: Plus the fact that no one ever seems embarrassed.

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I am guilty of this. Drives Mr. K crazy. I think it is because I can't hear well on the cell phone (and one of the reasons I hate it) so, I feel I need to talk loudly. I am not cellphone saavy.

Heck with a kazoo. I like to fake an episode of Tourettes, or simply respond to everything they utter. If they look at me funny I tell them not to interrupt me when I'm talking to my imaginary friends.

p.s. Oh, yes--I have done this in public....

I either start commenting on their conversation topic or start having a fake conversation with the air about how I am so important everyone needs to listen to my conversation.

God help us all if the day arrives when cell phone usage is allowed on airplanes.

And unfortunately, this day is already coming. Airlines are frantically figuring out how they can make money on this idea and they will implement it as soon as they do. I will be complaining and showing I mean it by flying airlines that continue to ban this practice.

They can't allow it on the smaller planes and they are afraid of the massive backlash if they allow it on larger planes.

One columnist suggested that if they allow it on planes, they should make public the phone numbers of those who made the decision so we can call THEM whenever we have a problem w/ someone on our flight talking.

I can't imagine a flight of cell phone conversations - it's annoying enough during the short time when we are getting on and off the plane. :angry:

It's the 21st century already. When do we get to start using telepathy? That would solve all our problems.

You'll LOVE this--the Giant Cellphone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NciO7AEqKYE&NR=1

I did love it!

I am guilty of this. Drives Mr. K crazy. I think it is because I can't hear well on the cell phone (and one of the reasons I hate it) so, I feel I need to talk loudly. I am not cellphone saavy.

It's one thing to not hear well & have to shout occasionally but it's another to be walking around in the grocery store or Ulta, casually perusing the shelves and gabbing loudly. And to be so totally unaware of it! :angry:

Manners, manners, manners. it really boils down to consideration of others, using good judgement and polite manners in any situation. I have observed friends and others talk on cell phones publicly (and in restaurants) for a lot of years. I have never understood this and I never will. Texting and iphone use in a restaurant is just as bad if not worse, imo.

I was told that at a NYE celebration/dinner at a nice local restaurant, there were many iphones out on the tables - some being used occasionally, and some being checked and used quietly at regular intervals (email, texts) regularly. etc. sounds like a personal habit with the new technology. whattayagoing to do? you can't tell people not to quietly use their stuff, but it doesn't exactly seem appropriate for the situation.

oh well! we can only control our own manners! we can also frequent restaurants with cell phone policies.

We can also try to control the manners of those we are with - uphill battle and frustrating, but worth it for the common good!

It all boils down to manners - the only time I have ever used a cell phone at my mother's dinner table was when our dinner guest had just gotten an Iphone and wanted to try and send me a text it for the entertainment of the group (so I then went and got mine from my room).

Any other occasion would have ended w/ me needing to buy a new cell phone if I used it at the table. ;-)

P.S. Vintij has had "no cell phones" printed on their menus for years, but not everyone complies.

I know Modica is just a deli counter and we do understand when locals run in for a quick lunch and have to call the menu in to a friend or co worker. We also understand if lunch is being done on the run so business is being conducted at the same time. We do mind a little when someone scolds us for interrupting there conversation when we ask if we can help them when they are next in line. If you are on the phone and you have a good reason, please make room for other people to view the food in the case and please understand that part of our job is to ask if we can help a person standing right in front of the cases. If the answer is no, that's OK we can go to the next person or task that is waiting. If the answer is yes then just ask your call to hang on a second.
I am sad for those too busy talking on the phone to enjoy the things around you. I see the best reunions and friendship beginnings in our little corner of the world. Weather you are on vacation or lunch, stop and enjoy what is around you. I text too much and am guilty of it at the grocery store but I will be more courteous from now on.
Thanks for this thread.

We can also try to control the manners of those we are with - uphill battle and frustrating, but worth it for the common good!

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yep. also, be a good example. if friends see that you turn your phone off in the restaurant and never take a call (or go outside if you need to use the phone), they may or may not follow suit.

we used to smoke in restaurants. but we know better now (it took laws to be written and enacted). can you imagine smoking in a restaurant now? no worse than talking on the phone, even though its more hazardous to the health of others.

good point Scooter about using the phone at your mother's table. I would have a fit if someone came to my house for dinner and used the phone at the table during dinner. so, why would people feel its okay to do this in a restaurant? I do not and I never will get it.

there are lots of other rules and etiquette suggestions for cell phones and other technology - Miss Kitty gave us a link recently with some excellent tips. It might help if we reviewed some of these in the lounge weekly or whatever. because we all need it. even though I would not talk on a cell phone in a restaurant, I'm sure I have broken other rules of etiquette in other situations (not referring to wild nights out with the girls).

This is an excellent, pertinent discussion of extremely inconsiderate behavior. And, as noted, it's everywhere these days.

Shelly, et al, you may not need to go abroad to find what you're after ....http://www.cell-phone-jammers.com/midium_power-jammer.html#jammer

This is an excellent, pertinent discussion of extremely inconsiderate behavior. And, as noted, it's everywhere these days.

Shelly, et al, you may not need to go abroad to find what you're after ....http://www.cell-phone-jammers.com/midium_power-jammer.html#jammer

It looks like they are only available in India, but fear not. I have an employee in India so I can always get him to buy it and ship it to the US. He's got paypal and shipments usually take about 2-3 weeks.

It looks like they are only available in India, but fear not. I have an employee in India so I can always get him to buy it and ship it to the US. He's got paypal and shipments usually take about 2-3 weeks.

The site says they ship to the USA.

This is an excellent, pertinent discussion of extremely inconsiderate behavior. And, as noted, it's everywhere these days.

Shelly, et al, you may not need to go abroad to find what you're after ....http://www.cell-phone-jammers.com/midium_power-jammer.html#jammer

Do they come with a taser attached? That's the one I want.

I agree completely with the above.

This is not as important as a fine dining restaurant (or restaurant of any kind, really), but I have often wanted to ram my shopping cart into the people who stand in the middle of the grocery store aisle--constructing a shopping list via phonewith their housemates, spouses, whomever....while they are oblivious to the fact that they have brought the traffic flow to a standstill...
and always there is TMI about their lives coming from the phone conversation.

What has happened to manners and appropriate behavior

When this happens, or when anyone abandons a buggy in the middle of the isle
thats when I take the opportunity to dump some items in said buggy. Usually some high priced item, or something like ex-lax, or condoms, or bag of prunes...anything really. This is the price for leaving your buggy unattended as far as I'm concerned it's non violent, and non confrontational and you dont always get to see the end result but thats o.k. too......

It looks like they are only available in India, but fear not. I have an employee in India so I can always get him to buy it and ship it to the US. He's got paypal and shipments usually take about 2-3 weeks.

battery powered? I want one, seriously.

You'll LOVE this--the Giant Cellphone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NciO7AEqKYE&NR=1

:funn:

battery powered? I want one, seriously.

Yep, fits in your pocket and gives you a .5-15 meter zone of cell phone silence.

I want to be available for our daughter 24/7, and she freaks out if she can't contact me the instant she needs me. So in church, wherever, whenever, in inappropriate places to receive a call, I now keep my phone on silent so that if she needs me, I know it, and I can leave the room to call her back.

The worst story I have about cell phones is from a funeral for a thirty-something mother of two children who died of cancer. Our strings group was asked to play the music for her funeral. Of course we did it gratis. During the funeral someone's cell phone went off. That is just the worst thing regarding cell phones that I have ever experienced. If I had not been on stage, I think I would have whomped up on that person.

I want to be available for our daughter 24/7, and she freaks out if she can't contact me the instant she needs me. So in church, wherever, whenever, in inappropriate places to receive a call, I now keep my phone on silent so that if she needs me, I know it, and I can leave the room to call her back.

I started to say pretty much the same thing. But the last time I did on a thread similar to this, I was told that my kid was a big cry baby or homesick or something to that effect - geesh. (& it was from someone who has no kids :roll.

But I totally agree! I take my cell (on silent) everywhere just in case. It has been a wonderful piece of mind. Many times over.


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.... our daughter ... freaks out if she can't contact me the instant she needs me.

I don't know how old your daughter is -- but really, whatever her age -- I submit that you're not doing her any favors regarding her maturation & development by facilitating this kind of behavior.

And by making this "normal" behavior, you're also helping to create incidents such as the one at the funeral.