You kids help me understand, please!

Why or how has the phone become more important than almost anything in our lives? I see people stopping everything they're doing to answer a phone call without knowing who is calling or why. I see people walking around in stores, trying to order fast food, trying to check out at the store/restaurant, driving, having conversations with real people and even (though very occassionally) trying to discipline their kid while talking on the stinking phone.

I can't remember the last time a meeting or class didn't have phones ringing and being answered. Same thing with movies - I don't go often, but they actually were telling people to take it outside in the previews the last time I went! While it doesn't seem as bad where I worship, it happens there too!

My cell phone is provided by my employer. It is very basic and has no special keyboard for texting or camera for taking lousy pictures. On the other hand, the voice mail feature works well. I unplugged the answering machine on my home phone and said, "If it was important, they'll call back."

Thanks to Rogue for showing me the ultimate today . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHjKKFmkg08 - don't get me started on driving and talking on the phone!

Great idea. I will call Miatamoto at the next ProSolo start line.
ring!!! RED light
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As with anything there is good and bad ettiquette...I agree that most people ignore good phone ettiquette.

I so badly want one of those phone jammers.

I think the important thing to remember is (ring, ring)

Oh wait a minute I gotta take this call. ;)

Quit honking the horn, can't you see i'm on the phone!::Rant::

I was at the hotel in Joplin, and trying to find out where everyone was.
We were rolling when we saw that on the U-tube. :lol:
Glad you enjoyed as much as us, Hal. ;)

Sadly, phone ettiquette is pretty much non-existent around here. I just shake my head when my wife and I are out to eat and we look around the dining room and there is always at least one person busy yakking away on their phone while their dinner date just quietly eats and picks at their food. C'mon!! You're out to eat with someone! Show them some respect and call the person back after dinner.

As my mother-in-law says, "A ringing phone is an invitation, not a command".

I always make more noise at work (Starbucks) when people are on the phone.

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Originally Posted by general default

Great idea. I will call Miatamoto at the next ProSolo start line.
ring!!! RED light
:burnrubr:

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LOL, I'll remember to block your number. :punchout:

I'm a big-time call-blocker. I almost never answer the phone unless I'm expecting the call - that's why there's voice mail!

I was in a Starbucks a while back, and the only other customer in there decides he's going to sit next to me and tell his douchebag buddy about last night's debauchery. I, uh, made it known that he could've sat anywhere else in the whole place (or, hey! go outside!).

Of course, I had to move... he was bigger than me...

:punchout:

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Originally Posted by onething

You kids help me understand, please!

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Don't know if I qualify as a kid, but anyway... ;)

If it wasn't for a couple of friends in other cities that I couldn't connect with otherwise, I wouldn't have a cell phone any more. In emergencies, sure, they're handy, but the only time I've had a wreck before it was 3AM and nobody was answering anyway. So that was kind of worthless.

And the majority of users have no clue about etiquette. I used to be that way, dropping everything to answer the phone. Now, unless I'm doing nothing, I just wait and call them back. I try not to talk while driving, either, unless the roads are pretty empty or I'm in a really familiar area. Or I'm lost, like when I was picking up my wheels from Icepenguin ::Banana::

It is amazing how many people sit on their phone at the restaurant where I work. I feel bad for anyone sitting with someone on their phone, because I will not come to the table if you are on the phone. What really gets me though are the weirdos with the blue tooth sets in all the time. While driving I understand. Or maybe using it while you are waiting on some people to arrive for lunch to get some business out of the way. But why do people leave them in while out to eat dinner on a Sunday night at 8:30. Is it so you can look cool, because now you just look like more of an idiot than you normally do.

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What really gets me though are the weirdos with the blue tooth sets in all the time.

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+1. Those people creep me out.

Truth is, it isn't the phones. The same people who are rude on their phones would have been just as rude before mobile phones, they would have just found some other way to express it. It's a lack of etiquette and manners in general.

I think modern smart phones are a great thing. Mine has been worth its weight in gold on several occasions, usually when I'm freezing my ass off in the middle of nowhere and I need to talk to someone twelve time zones away to solve a problem. However, it's not my master, and I don't answer it during meetings or dinner, etc., and I try to use it as little as possible while driving.

+1 Onething!

I guess I am getting old, I really dont get it.
I have had a cell phone and still do but it's a go phone that I use in case of an emergency.
I remember what it was like before cell phones, my life has not been changed or had undue stress put on it because i couldn't ask somones opinion on what toilet paper i am buying.....:rolleyes:
The drag strip video was scary!
The good thing is maybe all these folks will die off from the tumors in their heads....hahahahahahaha, just kidding, maybe.

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Of course, I had to move... he was bigger than me...

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Man... people are getting soft around here... Can't believe it hasn't been said yet.

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::Banana::

It's really a pain to hear some moron on the cell that thinks he has to talk loud for the other person to hear him. They should take it outside like the smokers have to do.

My mom and my brother are some of the worst about being loud on cell phones... I think they just don't realize it though :rolleyes:

Heres one with a preacher during a wedding: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsxBc9ebUoI

or this one with a wedding party http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uursC...eature=related

Amazing!

What a bunch of idiots on the you tube videos...wow, takes some people...

+1 on the loud people, at airports too, it's always the rancher that thinks he is still in the middle of his herd and he thinks the diesel is running, everyone has to listen from two gates away, ok only one, but you know what I mean.
talk about inconsiderate people!!!
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No ::turd::! I quite often hit the silence button on my phone cause I don't want to be freaking bothered or I'll call them back. So many people come into my work yaking on the cell phone and can't stop long enough for me to at least get the damn info I need out of them to get started on their car!

I don't even like phones, period. My average call time is under a minute.