Get the fuck off your cellphone!

[Willie Stroker]

I'm talking to you, bitch! You aint that fucking important anyway, motherfucker!

Fuck, I hate that.

ditto

 

[Lost Cause]

I almost got in a header from a mom driving a monster SUV crossing the center line, cellphone in her left hand, and checking on her kids strapped in the backseat...............I pulled over to make sure she straightened out and didn't hit anything.....for the kiddos sake.

 

[JBCorbell]

I use my bluetooth thingy for 3 hours a day - my commute in and my commute out. I don't like using a cell where others can hear you though, and even keep it in my pocket on vibrate rather than on ring.

Very much like my own case. I use my bluetooth in the car. Under those circumstances, using the phone is no more dangerous than talking to a passenger. Of course I only recieve calls and NEVER try to dial.

And, yes, receiving a call can make my day.

 

[thør]

Very much like my own case. I use my bluetooth in the car. Under those circumstances, using the phone is no more dangerous than talking to a passenger. Of course I only recieve calls and NEVER try to dial.

And, yes, receiving a call can make my day.

From the Insurance Information Insitute:

"A study from researchers at the University of Utah, published in the summer 2006 issue of Human Factors concludes that talking on a cell phone while driving is as dangerous as driving drunk, even if the phone is a hands-free model. An earlier study by researchers at the university found that motorists who talked on hands-free cell phones were 18 percent slower in braking and took 17 percent longer to regain the speed they lost when they braked."

 

[XXIII]

And they look like Borg rejects!

 

[crazybbwgirl]

What is wrong with that group of people who can't seem to live unless they are connected to someone else at all times? Why can't they get through one shopping expedition without that constant chatter?

I have lots of family and friends that I care about deeply. Not one of them do I want to mindlessly chatter with on a cell phone. Not one.

And don't even get me started on that texting crap...

 

[LotusDreamer]

What blows me away are the people on the bus. Teens are understandable, I
guess. However, adults do it too. And the shit they discuss. Personal stuff.

One lady was discussing her last break-up, which had occurred the night before,
with her gf and burst into tears. I mean she actually started boo-hooing, loudly,
on the bus.

 

[crazybbwgirl]

What blows me away are the people on the bus. Teens are understandable, I
guess. However, adults do it too. And the shit they discuss. Personal stuff.

One lady was discussing her last break-up, which had occurred the night before,
with her gf and burst into tears. I mean she actually started boo-hooing, loudly,
on the bus.

Good Grief! Has nobody any self respect left?

 

[Lost Cause]

Tng

New from Verizon Wireless~

http://uk.gizmodo.com/borg.jpg

 

[Bluesboy2]

What gets me is the people having phone sex while driving, that is just crazy.

 

[Lost Cause]

What gets me is the people having phone sex while driving, that is just crazy.

Try it on a moving motorcycle!

 

[Bluesboy2]

Try it on a moving motorcycle!

Ok, now that is just HAWT!

 

[crazybbwgirl]

What gets me is the people having phone sex while driving, that is just crazy.

What ARE you steering with!

 

[LotusDreamer]

What ARE you steering with!

His knees?

 

[Gac1]

I have the same feeling when people drive with the phone slapped to their ear.and still try break the land speed record. worse they're trying to SMS someone while dodging traffic.

In South Africa it's against the law to use your cellphone while driving the law states you may not have your cell phone in your hands at all while driving. The Traffic officials just lie in wait for you. it's a hefty fine around 500 to 1000 rand if you're caught.

I was amazed to see so many people chatting on their phones while driving in the states and then to be informed that their are no laws in many areas governing the use of cell phones while you drive.


I have a bluetooth headset and a cord one if my headset dies I unfortunately have people who insist on phoning me at 7h30 in the morning on my way to work to ask me about there Pipeline that isn't working. I politely inform them that I'm driving and will call them back when I get to the office. You won't believe the amount of people who expect me to try problem solve their situation while I'm driving. Studies have shown that the minute you begin to think about complex tasks while you're driving you become dangerous and take your mind off what you doing.


The worst is

If you're in a meeting, a presentation, or just chatting face to face with the person and they take a meaningless trivial call break the flow of conversation and then act like nothing happened .

 

[MNGuy]

What REALLY takes the cake is at my job when customers come up yapping on their cellphone and expect me to wait on them. Usually I just talk to them as if the phone isn't there. I'm going to do my job no matter what and try to get the person what they're after. There's been a few times where the person got the hint and was like "Ok I'll need to call you back *insert name here*". Other times they just kept right on yapping.

When I used to work retail, I had this customer come in complaining he got double charged on his credit card, and wanted a refund to get his money back. He said he called his credit card company on his cell phone in the parking lot and that the charges showed up twice. I asked the cashier about it, and she said the register said not to accept the card, so he paid with a different credit card. He was all impatient because he was in a hurry.

Then his cell phone rings, before I can get any information from him, and he proceeds to start talking to whoever about some trip. I tried to get him to give me his information a couple of times, but he totally ignored me and kept yapping away. Excuse me, you were dealing with me first. So I told him I would help him when he was finished and walked away. He nodded. So I left.

THIRTY MINUTES later my cashier pages back because the guy is off his cell phone. So, I take my time, because I have other customers I'm helping, but not long enough to let him know I'm making him wait, until I go back there. Now he's all wondering what I found out, because, remember, he's in a hurry. So I tell him that I couldn't find out anything without his information. He says I have all the information on the computer, that we double charged him. I tell him the sale does not go through our computer if the register declines the sale, so I had no information.

So he finally gives me his card type and number, so I can call, and get put on hold for ten minutes, while he paces, because he is in a hurry. I finally get a customer service agent who confirms the card shows up twice on their records, as DECLINED. So I start talking to the guy, and tell him the card does show up as DECLINED, so he wasn't charged. He starts complaining that if it showed up twice, we need to refund the money. I had to sit and explain what DECLINED meant three fucking times before he got it, and even then I'm not sure he understood the concept.

So then he starts bitching because it took so long, and why didn't I check before now. I explain that I needed his information, again, but he was on his cell phone and ignored me. He tells me its a hell of a way to run a business and walks out.

 

[Aigisthos]

So then he starts bitching because it took so long, and why didn't I check before now. I explain that I needed his information, again, but he was on his cell phone and ignored me. He tells me its a hell of a way to run a business and walks out.

I fucking hate those people. You're the idiot, you fucked up, how can you even think to make it my problem?

My most recent retarded cell phone experience was at the grocery store recently. I'm shopping away, and there's this mother/daughter pair, both on cell phones at the same time while shopping. It wouldn't have been so bad, except they were both getting steadily louder so they could hear over the other person's talking. Even worse, whenever they needed to consult about something shopping related, it would take a solid 30 seconds of trying to get the other's attention, who was inevitably ignoring their family member....

....since their cell-phone convo is so much more important than family.

 

[funny215]

what i find funny is that all these people in this thread are bitching about cell phones while driving yet i wonder how many secretly do it anyway......

 

[MNGuy]

what i find funny is that all these people in this thread are bitching about cell phones while driving yet i wonder how many secretly do it anyway......

I don't, I don't have a cell phone. No place to put the charger in my cave.

 

[crazybbwgirl]

what i find funny is that all these people in this thread are bitching about cell phones while driving yet i wonder how many secretly do it anyway......

I have one. It's in my car. Turned off. It is for emergencies. I don't even know what my cell number is without looking it up.

 

[funny215]

if you use your cell so little, i hope you don't pay alot per month then..

 

[crazybbwgirl]

if you use your cell so little, i hope you don't pay alot per month then..

I pay $20 every 3 months. Prepay plan. I have 100's of minutes banked at this point.

 

[Image]

I pay $20 every 3 months. Prepay plan. I have 100's of minutes banked at this point.

Exactly! I had to use mine yesterday for the first time in months while waiting at the auto repair shop and it said "Time available for this call is 64 hours"!

There are chumps out there that would die to have that kind of time stored

 

[estevie]

what i find funny is that all these people in this thread are bitching about cell phones while driving yet i wonder how many secretly do it anyway......

I would wreck if I talked and drove at the same time. I'm just not that coordinated. If I even answer it, I just say I'll call you back once I get where I'm going.