Hi, My pet peeve is hearing cell phone conversations everywhere I go. In the store, restaurants, on the street, and even in church I find myself treated to one way conversations of every conceivable type.
What is so important to people that they need to be in touch 24 hours a day? My son carried a cell phone for several years in case a kidney became available for transplant. You need a cell phone if your uppity car strands you on the side of the road. You need them for emergencies, to report fires, illnesses, accidents, and crimes, and maybe take photos of these events. I agree with all these reasons.
I don't understand what a tween or teenager has to say that it is so important that he or she needs to say it in a public place or a church. I don't know why I need to hear the gory details of someone's Aunt Kitty's stomach surgery while I'm eating lunch. I don't want to hear how Susie is pregnant and what is her boy friend going to do about it.
Please, cell phone junkies, have mercy on the rest of us. Remember the good manners that your parents taught you and have your conversations in private. That's all I ask.
Pet Peeve-Cell Phones
posted 9 months ago
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- 1. 9 months ago lynn729 wrote:
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I agree with you. I get so tired of trying to wait on a customer at the pharmacy window when they are talking on a cell phone. We usually just wait until they are finished before we ask if we can help them. They act insulted like we are ignoring them, but you can't ask them questions while they are talking. Thanks.
- 2. 9 months ago PenDragon679 wrote:
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The telephone -- not the cell phone, the telephone in general -- will very likely prove to be the downfall of Western civilization. As a result of the invention of this diabolical device, people feel they have the right to interrupt others at any time for any reason, or for no reason at all. The cellular 'phone has multiplied this phenomenon astronomically.
If you couldn't tell, I HATE telephones, and cellular 'phones in particular. If Alexander Graham Bell were alive today, he'd cringe to see what his invention to aid the deaf has become. Having said that, I should state for the record that I've carried a cell 'phone for the past 12 years, and keep my latest 'phone turned on and with me at all times. I just don't answer it all the time!
The telephone is a wonderful instrument for use in emergencies. Making appointments is a whole lot simpler if you have a telephone. And, this wonderful computer technology owes much of its existence to the invention of the telephone. But. . .
I hate it when I get stuck behind some idiot on the road with a cell 'phone glued to his/her ear. Cell 'phones in the grocery store, restaurant, or any other public place just drive me crazy. To my mind, it's just plain rude to be yakking away to someone somewhere else when you should be focused on shopping, driving, eating, etc.
How on Earth did we ever survive as a species without the telephone?
- 3. 6 months ago RichiesMom wrote:
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Hello Akalinus:
I've just finished reading your blogs on cell phones. In the State of Washington starting January 1, 2009 if you are talking or texting on your cell phone while driving, you can be stopped by the State Patrol and ticketed. This year they can only ticket you for texting while driving.
My husband and I have used cell phones once the price came down. We frequently needed them for work or to track down our son. But we always shut them off in church, attending movies, etc.
I remember the days of doctors (I can't really think of another profession)
carried pagers. And they were the ONLY folks who carried pagers. What I can understand is where was I when every person (at least in the U.S.)elevated their stature to that of an M.D.?
2009 cannot come soon enough for us!
Richiesmom
