Gilly Bean
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This is one of my favorite topics to debate, so be forwarned, there is ranting ahead.
I was reading (and responding) to the phone about people using cell phones in public restrooms.
I, personally, don't use a cell phone unless absolutly needed. However, as the trend grows, more and more people use them, and it's not uncommon for even kids in junior and senior high to have them.
People become more and more comfortable talking on them, doing other things while on them, and just plain being rude to those around them while on them.
Things I have personally witnessed, and will rant over, include:
A: Three days ago, I picked hubby up at work. On the way, I saw a woman driving a car (with two very small children in the back seat) talking on the phone. She was using one hand to hold the phone, and using the other hand to smoke a cigarette (also a pet peeve of mine- smoking around children: it's just plain selfish). The guy in front of her breaked, and because she was preoccupied trying to do two things at once, with no hands on the wheel, she came within an inch of rear ending him, and dropped the cigarette in the process.
She not only endangered her children, but also those people around her on the road, all by talking on a phone, and smoking a cigarette.
Gilly's verdict: Rude, stupid, and just plain imbred.
B: While waiting in a grocery line, the woman in front of me was chatting on the phone rather loudly about how a friend of hers had gotten trashed the night before, and ended up sleeping over at a guys house. She said that said friend didn't know the guy's name the next morning, and laughed before saying that was so typical. She even went so far as to call her 'friend' a slut, but laughed and said it was funny.
Meanwhile, it was her turn at the counter, and she turns around to pay, only then realizing that the girl working was another friend entierly. The girl at the counter (you know, the one being paid to complete a task, thus making our lives go easier at check out lanes) asked who was on the phone, and the first girl handed the phone to her. They sat there for nearly five minutes chatting back and forth between the three, making plans for that night. Meanwhile, the line behind me had more than gotten restless, and frozen foods were now warm gooey foods.
It took the woman behind me asking rather loudly for a manager to get the check out girl to get off the phone, and finish her friends checkout. Both the first girl, and the check out girl glared at those of us waiting behind her. She was rather unhappy when I got up there, handed her my have thawed ice cream, and asked her to get me a new carton.
Gilly's verdict: Stupid people should neither breed, nor use cell phones
C: Hubby and I got a sitter for all 3 kids ( a feat all on it's own), actually had extra money, and went to see Lord of the Rings 2 back in December. We get started in the movie, and more and more people move in around us, until we are surrounded (I have major personal space issues, and hate sitting next to anyone), so we moved over a few places.
The person sitting down about 5 spaces got 'beeped' (you know, those two way cell phones) during the first half an hour.
Those are the ones that beep each time you two way back and forth. Now, in this time, the person on the other end (whom we could all hear loud and clear) asked what was going on, and the guy in the theater said: "Nothing, just at the movies", and then proceeded to have a nice chat with the person. Finally, after about 10 minutes, he shuts up, and the movie can continue in peace.
About 30 minutes later, it happens again.
In the span of a movie, he had no less than 4 conversations with people, and told each of them that he was AT the movies, but also said (when asked if they should just beep him later) that he could talk at the moment.
Gilly's Verdict: Cell Phones are the bane of the world, and people using them must get dumber with each use.
Now, I am not saying all people are like this, but the trend I am seeing with cell phones, is that people just get more and more comfortable with them, and the more so they are, the more lax they are about using them anywhere they please, while doing anything they please.
I am sure that to those who are the phone, it doesn't seem like a huge problem, but to those of us standing around them, waiting on them, and trying to live away from them, the people come off as rude, and very stupid.
I don't see why a single person has the need to be contacted at any given time, in any given place, while doing any given thing.
It bugs the hell out of me. Again, I'm not saying all people who use them are so rude about thier use, but the trend is rising.
So, what do you think? Have you noticed any really stupid things people do while on phones? Have you yourself become a victim of cell phone comfort?
Tell us!
Now, I highly expect to get a flame or two, so hey, bring em on. I am a firm believer in my ways, and I firmly believe cell phones to be the bane of modern society.
I was reading (and responding) to the phone about people using cell phones in public restrooms.
I, personally, don't use a cell phone unless absolutly needed. However, as the trend grows, more and more people use them, and it's not uncommon for even kids in junior and senior high to have them.
People become more and more comfortable talking on them, doing other things while on them, and just plain being rude to those around them while on them.
Things I have personally witnessed, and will rant over, include:
A: Three days ago, I picked hubby up at work. On the way, I saw a woman driving a car (with two very small children in the back seat) talking on the phone. She was using one hand to hold the phone, and using the other hand to smoke a cigarette (also a pet peeve of mine- smoking around children: it's just plain selfish). The guy in front of her breaked, and because she was preoccupied trying to do two things at once, with no hands on the wheel, she came within an inch of rear ending him, and dropped the cigarette in the process.
She not only endangered her children, but also those people around her on the road, all by talking on a phone, and smoking a cigarette.
Gilly's verdict: Rude, stupid, and just plain imbred.
B: While waiting in a grocery line, the woman in front of me was chatting on the phone rather loudly about how a friend of hers had gotten trashed the night before, and ended up sleeping over at a guys house. She said that said friend didn't know the guy's name the next morning, and laughed before saying that was so typical. She even went so far as to call her 'friend' a slut, but laughed and said it was funny.
Meanwhile, it was her turn at the counter, and she turns around to pay, only then realizing that the girl working was another friend entierly. The girl at the counter (you know, the one being paid to complete a task, thus making our lives go easier at check out lanes) asked who was on the phone, and the first girl handed the phone to her. They sat there for nearly five minutes chatting back and forth between the three, making plans for that night. Meanwhile, the line behind me had more than gotten restless, and frozen foods were now warm gooey foods.
It took the woman behind me asking rather loudly for a manager to get the check out girl to get off the phone, and finish her friends checkout. Both the first girl, and the check out girl glared at those of us waiting behind her. She was rather unhappy when I got up there, handed her my have thawed ice cream, and asked her to get me a new carton.
Gilly's verdict: Stupid people should neither breed, nor use cell phones
C: Hubby and I got a sitter for all 3 kids ( a feat all on it's own), actually had extra money, and went to see Lord of the Rings 2 back in December. We get started in the movie, and more and more people move in around us, until we are surrounded (I have major personal space issues, and hate sitting next to anyone), so we moved over a few places.
The person sitting down about 5 spaces got 'beeped' (you know, those two way cell phones) during the first half an hour.
Those are the ones that beep each time you two way back and forth. Now, in this time, the person on the other end (whom we could all hear loud and clear) asked what was going on, and the guy in the theater said: "Nothing, just at the movies", and then proceeded to have a nice chat with the person. Finally, after about 10 minutes, he shuts up, and the movie can continue in peace.
About 30 minutes later, it happens again.
In the span of a movie, he had no less than 4 conversations with people, and told each of them that he was AT the movies, but also said (when asked if they should just beep him later) that he could talk at the moment.
Gilly's Verdict: Cell Phones are the bane of the world, and people using them must get dumber with each use.
Now, I am not saying all people are like this, but the trend I am seeing with cell phones, is that people just get more and more comfortable with them, and the more so they are, the more lax they are about using them anywhere they please, while doing anything they please.
I am sure that to those who are the phone, it doesn't seem like a huge problem, but to those of us standing around them, waiting on them, and trying to live away from them, the people come off as rude, and very stupid.
I don't see why a single person has the need to be contacted at any given time, in any given place, while doing any given thing.
It bugs the hell out of me. Again, I'm not saying all people who use them are so rude about thier use, but the trend is rising.
So, what do you think? Have you noticed any really stupid things people do while on phones? Have you yourself become a victim of cell phone comfort?
Tell us!
Now, I highly expect to get a flame or two, so hey, bring em on. I am a firm believer in my ways, and I firmly believe cell phones to be the bane of modern society.
