Cell phone courtesy

Cell phones really irritate me. This subject, btw, started over on the TEB blog yesterday when Aurora Rose Lynn bemoaned people conducting their private cell phone conversations in very public places. Why not check out her post, too? (AFTER you read mine of course) I hate it hate it hate it! when I'm at lunch with someone, when it's supposed to be my private time with them, and instead, they spend half or more of the time chatting on their cell phone to someone else. I almost got up and walked out on a couple of people who did that to me. It makes me think twice about going out with them again. Obviously, I wasn't very important to them if they ignored me... My hubby infuriates me on this subject. He gets angry when I don't answer my cell phone right away. He thinks, like probably most callers, that we on the other end should drop everything else, interrupt meetings, ignore our other friends, so we can conduct private business in front of other people or wreck the car in heavy traffic??? During the work day or when I'm out to eat or working at the bookstore, I put my cell phone on vibrate. I tell people in advance I don't answer the cell phone at work, that if it's urgent or an emergency to call me on my work phone. Almost everybody forgets or perhaps they think I'll answer the cell phone anyway. Some sound peeved that I don't pick up. Personally, I long for the freedom we had before these little buggers were ever invented. It scares me when I see people talking on the damned cell phone when they're backing up their vehicle or trying to do some other complicated maneuver while driving. It's extremely annoying when someone's cell phone chirps during a staff meeting and the speaker is so disrespected and sometimes loses his train of thought, when all heads turn toward the sound. I also hate it when the hubby talks on his blue tooth all the time and I can't tell at first if he's talking to me or to someone else. He gets mad if I don't answer him if he's talking to me and he also gets mad if I do answer and he's talking to someone else. Personally, I'm about to throw that no good gadget in the canal behind the house.

Thursday Thirteen - You know you're living in 2008 when...

You Know You're Living in 2008 When... 1.... You gave up your land line phone in favor of a cell phone. 2.... Every member of your family, including your eight year old, has a cell phone. 3.... If you want to speak to two or more members of one household, you have to call each of them separately on their cell phone. 4.... You email the pizza delivery place when you have a pizza craving. 5.... Your kid texts the person sitting next to him. You're not totally surprised when one of your kid's friends parents end up with a $1,000 phone bill because the child went over allotted texts. You're sorry this happened but relieved if wasn't your bill. You update your cell phone plan for unlimited texting just in case your kid also becomes a crazed texter. 6.... You know who David & David are. 7.... You follow at least one reality tv show. 8.... You have a blog. 9.... You talk to your friends more on blogs than in person or in email. 10... You watch tv in your car. 11... Every other person you see is wearing New Balance gym shoes. 12... You use your cell phone as your alarm clock. 13... Everyone fights for the closest parking space at work but then spends breaks power walking.

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