Cell phones - HOW RUDE!

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JLCecilia said:
DH wants to get a texting feature/service on his next phone and I’m thinking, great, you really need one more techie distraction from the real live people in your house (us, his family). I can see our kids one day calling him from their cell phone to his from their backseats in the car just to talk to him!!!

What is up w/ this??? Don’t even get me started about parents letting their kids have cell phones at school where they’re texting w/ their hands and phones in their pockets!!! I am totally w/ Dr.Ray on this - BIG NO-NO!
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We’ve added texting to our phones. I use it far more than I ever thought I would, and in fact say I probably text more than I talk now. Each of my kids has a cell phone. It is a great security tool. I can always reach them, and more importantly, they can always reach me. How many times have you seen a pay phone lately? They pretty much do not exist in my area anymore.

Kind of funny - I have called and or texted my own kids on their cell phones while in our house. Their bedrooms, the living room, and my office are fairly far apart, so when I am working and need them for something, it far easier to text them to come down to my office rather than yell through the house trying to find them.
 
Texting is handy when you’re in a large area trying to meet up with/communicate with people and there’s a loud, large crowd around you such that a phone conversation is difficult to have.

. . . Other than that, I’m tired of my Non-Catholic friends texting me when they know I’m at Mass. :^P
 
The question is…what did the world do without cell phones before they came on the scene? :eek:

I find it funny when I see two teenagers on what looks to be a date, and they are both ignoring one another, while waiting on their dinner to arrive, texting whoever, and not even carrying on a conversation together. 😛
 
Text messaging is a great way to contact my children when they might be in class and can’t receive a phone call or check voice mail. (I guess I’m not being very polite to teachers, am I?😊) I’ve used it to tell them they need to pick something up in the office, that I won’t be able to pick them up after school, and other such messages that the school doesn’t care to deliver for me. Hopefully they mainly check between classes.

But I do agree there are many places where phone calls are not appropriate, whether cell phones or land phones.
 
happymommy said:
we went to the bathroom without having a conversation!! 👍
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Years ago when I was attending community college I had a friend whose parents we pretty well off. They had a phone (a land line) in one of their bathrooms. I was afraid to ask about the circumstances under which it was most commonly used.

I have occasionally taken a phone into a bathroom at home if I needed to get away from noise. But I’m always afraid that it will echo strangely and people will know where I am.
 
Yeah, it’s rude, but people’s sensitivity to it is so low that most don’t notice. I generally just nod away whatever request for excuse they make and I’ve probably picked a call or two in such circumstances myself, as well. It feels different when you’re inside the oh-so-mobile world.
 
Yesterday at the bookstore… a woman wandering around, talking loudly on her phone, describing the books she was seeing to the person on the other end of the line. We were in there for at least 20 minutes and she was in there yakking away when we got there and was still going strong when we left. And I could tell from her conversation that she was just chatting–not asking the other person things like, “Is this the book you were looking for? Or would you rather I pick up this one for you?” (which I could understand). She was just talking for the sake of talking. I don’t get it! :hmmm:
 
In London, we have ‘the tube’ (read -subway-), where mobile phone signals can’t reach, and they are considering putting in masts underneath the ground so people can jabber down there too!!!

I have two cellphones - personal/business. Between 9-6 the business one gets answered almost everytime (can’t lose clients!). The personal one is almost never answered / on silent.

If it’s bad news, I’d rather spend the next hour or so NOT knowing.

If it’s good news, I’d rather be told in person.

If it’s informational, then I don’t need to know straight away.

If it’s a request for immediate help, then people can learn to ask for help in advance (family members included!).

If friends want to chat they can ring the landline, or just see me when they see me. I remember one guy just calling me to ‘use up’ his free minutes that were gonna run out (he revealed the fact after we had been chatting for 30 minutes - thanks a bunch!!)

I think mobiles are one of the most useful, but ultimately misused technologies in the world. Plus all the radiation they pump out. As soon as it is business-feasible, I want to ditch mine 😊
 
I use my phone alot, text and voice. I don’t answer it when I have someoen with me in real life, or when I eating out etc. It will log and I’ll call ya back.

I’m retired, my Iphone is for pleasure. When riding across the country on my motorcycles solo it is a absolute neccesity. I have internet access for weather radar, motels, and whateverl and my family can have instant access even when I’m crossing the Mojave.

But I hate call waiting worse then any cell phone. If I’m talking to you and you put me on hold to take another call I won’t be there when ya get back, even if you’re gone 5 seconds. Who ever is calling will just have to call back. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been in great conversation with someone only to have him cut off by someone wanting to chit chat. If its important they’ll leave a voice mail, but please don’t put me on hold and switch over.
 
Condottiero said:
I’ve got one for you. Not 20 minutes ago I stepped downstairs to use the washroom, and there was a guy standing there doing his business while he talked away. TMI, I know, but, well, there you go.
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A similar thing happened to me recently. Went into the washroom and found a co-worker standing standing at a urinal doing his thing while talking on a cell phone. So…I went to the urinal next to him and gave it a flush. (It’s one of those high powered urinals that flush with a loud and distinctive “whooosh.”) My co-worker was big-time embarassed. Whoever he was talking to knew exactly what he was holding in each of his hands. :eek:
 
happymommy said:
we went to the bathroom without having a conversation!! 👍
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LOL! That’s right, I nearly forgot. 😃

Reminds me too of coworkers who want to chat with me…while we’re in the stalls…doing our thing. lol Uh, can’t this conversation wait a minute…or two? 😃 I love to talk, but there’s time when I need my silence.
 
CatholicSam said:
Yesterday at the bookstore… a woman wandering around, talking loudly on her phone, describing the books she was seeing to the person on the other end of the line. We were in there for at least 20 minutes and she was in there yakking away when we got there and was still going strong when we left. And I could tell from her conversation that she was just chatting–not asking the other person things like, “Is this the book you were looking for? Or would you rather I pick up this one for you?” (which I could understand). She was just talking for the sake of talking. I don’t get it! :hmmm:
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LOL! These lil cellphone stories are making me laugh tonight. 😃
 
BamaRider said:
But I hate call waiting worse then any cell phone. If I’m talking to you and you put me on hold to take another call I won’t be there when ya get back, even if you’re gone 5 seconds. Who ever is calling will just have to call back. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been in great conversation with someone only to have him cut off by someone wanting to chit chat. If its important they’ll leave a voice mail, but please don’t put me on hold and switch over.
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:rotfl: I admit, I do place people on hold, and then, I end up losing them, because I can never figure out call waiting on our home phone!😊

So, you hang up on people, Bama? LOLOLOLOL!!! This thread is the funniest thread I’ve seen on CAF! 😃
 
whatevergirl said:
I find it funny when I see two teenagers on what looks to be a date, and they are both ignoring one another, while waiting on their dinner to arrive, texting whoever, and not even carrying on a conversation together. 😛
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I bet they are texting EACH OTHER!:rotfl:
BamaRider said:
But I hate call waiting worse then any cell phone. If I’m talking to you and you put me on hold to take another call I won’t be there when ya get back, even if you’re gone 5 seconds.
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**Guy!:tsktsk: I thought you were a nice guy;)… I love call waiting. If I am having a great conversation with a friend and my mom is trying to call there are 2 things that can happen:
  1. I switch over and take literally seconds to let her know I’ll call her back
OR
  1. she calls some of your buddies in the fire dept to come and check on me, sure that I am laying there helpless or unconscious with Lily crying in the background because I haven’t answered 2 or more consecutive calls
:D**
 
At a bible study I used to attend, the parish council president would come, but leave her Bluetooth phone on her ear, turned on, the whole time, just “in case” she got a call. I gather she was a realtor, but it was very distracting and irritating, a visual reminder that the bible study class really wasn’t her top priority for that hour.
 
This thread is interesting to read. Everyone has strong opinions!

I am a bank teller. I have to say that I HATE IT when customers walk up with a phone attached to their ear, push their transaction over to me, and keep on talking. I have customers who come in EVERY DAY and do this! Sometimes they turn their back, or look irritated when I either say hello or ask for clarification with what they’re doing, or ask for ID, etc. :rolleyes:

Hello?! If I walked into your place of business with a phone to my ear, would you pay any attention to me? My job is dealing with people all day–I like talking to them and not feeling like I’m just an ATM. Can’t you even say hello?
 
I love Calvin & Hobbes.

When I was younger (10-18ish), I used to laugh at Calvin’s Dad. ‘What an old fogey!’ I’d exclaim. ‘Not wanting cable, or VCRs, or telephones or the internet. What kind of oddball is he.’

Now that I’ve gained a decade or so, I realize I’ve become Calvin’s Dad. I’ve enjoyed the past few months without cable, I could do without constant access to the phone and the constant communication everyone expects. I often find myself nostalgifying over the days when it took a month to get information from one coast of North America to the other and across both sides of the ocean. :^P
 
So, you hang up on people, Bama? LOLOLOLOL!!! This thread is the funniest thread I’ve seen on CAF!
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Yeah, if ya switch me over to take another call I’m gonna hang up. In the old days, ya use to get a busy signal and you’d say’ “Oh he must talking to someone, I’ll call back in a litlte while.” Since I keep my call waiting disabled, (if ya call me ya gonna go straight to voice mail, not gonna let ya cut in LOL) I’m curious. Have ya EVER told the first caller you’re not coming back? I mean why interrupt the conversation just to tell somebody you’ll call em back later? ROFLO. If they go straight vm they’ll know you’re already in a conversation.

So when somebody tells me hold on just a min, I usually say, "that alright tawk to ya later, or let em switch over and thein hang up. Now really when was the last time someone cut in on ya that absolutely had to tawk to ya RIGHT NOW?

Debbie has a good friend she says hard to have a conversation with cos someone is always clicking in.

But if Malia tells me its her elderly mother I’ll be patient, but outside of that I’m gonna let ya go LOL.

A cell phone ain’t got nuttin on call waitin. My :twocents:
 
I hate call waiting too. I don’t have it on my landline and I rarely use it on my cell. Usually, I ignore it unless it is my dw. Then depending on what my current conversation is about I’ll either ignore it or tell the person that my dw is calling and I had better get it. I don’t tell them to hold on. If someone puts me on hold, I will wait about 30secs and then hang up. They can call me back when they are done.

My dw and I have a signal. If she calls and I don’t answer, then she can assume I’m occupied and can’t answer. However, if she immediately calls back, then I know I had better answer because it is important. This is about the only time I answer the phone when I’m in the middle of another conversation.

The strangest phone call that I have seen and I’m still not quite sure how he did it is a motorcycle rider. He was talking on his phone with one hand on the grips going about 60mph. Insane!
 
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