Are you sure that you really want to be available for everyone to call you 24 hours a day? I know I do not. I will never forget when the power company called to pitch me their new averaging payment plan while I was standing at the copier at work! I was so mad. As the cliche goes; the more you make yourself available, the more available everyone will expect you to be. People will get mad when they can not reach you once you have a cell phone. I can not tell you how many times I have heard someones cell phone ring while they are in a public bathroom.
In society today, cell phones are everywhere. People talk on cell phones everywhere which is really annoying. Like waiting in line at the grocery store and the bagger has asked the lady in front of you if she wants paper or plastic but she is too busy having some menial conversation to even hear the guy. Get off your cell phone and answer the bagger and stop holding up the check out line! I hate cell phones.
No one has cell phone manners either. I want to sit in a restaurant and relax and enjoy my food and not be surrounded by a dozen busy bodies all talking on their cell phones all around my table! Or what about being in a meeting and someones cell phone rings and then everyone looks to see if it is their cell phone! Talk about disrupting the meeting! But people are self centered and rude by nature, they don't care.
It may help people who use cell phones to follow certain degree of etiquette with respect to the use of cell phones specially in places where you may seem rude if you use or even when your cell phone rings.
My favorite are the people who bring cell phones in to church. Talk about disrupting service. One cell phone rings and everyone stops listening to what is going and starts digging in their things and checking to see if it is their cell phone that is ringing. How would you like to be up on stage in front of a hundred people performing and then suddenly everyone turns away and starts looking for their cell phone? It is very rude. I also hate it when the spirit starts to move in church as people lift their hands up and begin singing and praising God and then a cell phone rings and everyone stops praising God and starts digging in their pockets and purses to see if their cell phone is ringing. Never be so selfish as to bring a cell phone into a place of worship.
You have to love the 6 foot guy in the movie theater who is a rebel and does not want to follow the instructions for turning off a cell phone. His attitude is like, it is my life, try and make me. One guy even sat there and talked on his cell phone during the movie and the cell phone had a light up panel that could be seen all the way to the back of the theater. Someone throw a piece of popcorn and hit the guy in the head already!
If you are flying, you have to turn your cell phone off because it could interfere with a plane's avionics. For really long flights, you are allowed to use your cell phone only at a certain time. But ask yourself the following question, do the ten people sitting around me really want to listen to my menial phone conversation? No. They do not.
Cell phone companies continue to cram more and more cool functions into their cell phones. Just remember though that buying a cell phone comes with responsibilities. New technology does not give you the right to be rude. The right for you to blab on your cell phone ends at my ear.
In society today, cell phones are everywhere. People talk on cell phones everywhere which is really annoying. Like waiting in line at the grocery store and the bagger has asked the lady in front of you if she wants paper or plastic but she is too busy having some menial conversation to even hear the guy. Get off your cell phone and answer the bagger and stop holding up the check out line! I hate cell phones.
No one has cell phone manners either. I want to sit in a restaurant and relax and enjoy my food and not be surrounded by a dozen busy bodies all talking on their cell phones all around my table! Or what about being in a meeting and someones cell phone rings and then everyone looks to see if it is their cell phone! Talk about disrupting the meeting! But people are self centered and rude by nature, they don't care.
It may help people who use cell phones to follow certain degree of etiquette with respect to the use of cell phones specially in places where you may seem rude if you use or even when your cell phone rings.
My favorite are the people who bring cell phones in to church. Talk about disrupting service. One cell phone rings and everyone stops listening to what is going and starts digging in their things and checking to see if it is their cell phone that is ringing. How would you like to be up on stage in front of a hundred people performing and then suddenly everyone turns away and starts looking for their cell phone? It is very rude. I also hate it when the spirit starts to move in church as people lift their hands up and begin singing and praising God and then a cell phone rings and everyone stops praising God and starts digging in their pockets and purses to see if their cell phone is ringing. Never be so selfish as to bring a cell phone into a place of worship.
You have to love the 6 foot guy in the movie theater who is a rebel and does not want to follow the instructions for turning off a cell phone. His attitude is like, it is my life, try and make me. One guy even sat there and talked on his cell phone during the movie and the cell phone had a light up panel that could be seen all the way to the back of the theater. Someone throw a piece of popcorn and hit the guy in the head already!
If you are flying, you have to turn your cell phone off because it could interfere with a plane's avionics. For really long flights, you are allowed to use your cell phone only at a certain time. But ask yourself the following question, do the ten people sitting around me really want to listen to my menial phone conversation? No. They do not.
Cell phone companies continue to cram more and more cool functions into their cell phones. Just remember though that buying a cell phone comes with responsibilities. New technology does not give you the right to be rude. The right for you to blab on your cell phone ends at my ear.
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