stop that swagger. Yes you have a cell phone clipped to your pants, yes you have a beeper nexty to it, yes you also have a palm pilot clipped next to the beeper…
cloth is not sound proof, tuck your otherwise untucked shirt behind your cell phone / beeper/ palm…
I know not all of you are on call during the weekends, it’s OK to leave your equipment at home…and again, don’t tuck your untucked t-shirt behind the phone…it’s ok,…you’ll be fine…stop that swagger, please. you’re wearing a suit or cargo pants with many a pocket, it’s OK.
and you there? talking on the cell phone in the car? May I assume that’s the space shuttle you’re talking to, guiding them down through some tricky manuever that can’t wait until you pull your ass over and park? You’re a brain surgeon talking to some sherpa in Nepal who is trying to remove an ice pick from a mountain climber’s head? Because then I understand. I’d hate to think you were just some self-important prick who was calling up your buddy to tell him there’s a sale on Squick Lubricant at Wal-Mart.
I have previously ranted on the apparent thousands of people who take their cell phones to professional ball games now.
The other night I was in the theater, and a guy sat down in front of me, and he, of course, had to get that ONE LAST CELL-PHONE CONVERSATION IN before the movie started. (He was done before the lights went down.)
The cell phone, beeper, palm pilot brigade will be coming along any time now to tell you all to fuck off; that they are important and have to be on-call and they have little kids and they NEED their electronic menageries.
How did we survive in this country for 220 years before cell phones?
Go ahead and be a slave to other people’s access. I’ll get back to 'em. Maybe.
I take it that you probably wouldn’t appriciate me for calling my roomate in the sporting goods section of Wal-Mart from the automotive section. I love my phone.
At one point for a job I had a cell phone and 3 beepers with me at all times, beat that for important.
Pagers are not that bad. A little beep beep is okay. Most have the vibrating option. If someone really needs to get a hold of you, then can page you and you can call them back. Great invention.
Cell phones, however, are stupid. If you are that important that you need a phone around you 24/7, maybe you should stay home. If you are too busy to stay home, then the phone calls you may receive are obviously not top priority on list. GET AN ANSWERING MACHINE! If you are “on call” for anything, get a pager. You CAN call these people back.
I can’t say much about the palm pilots. I’ve never seen one, I don’t know anyone who owns one, and I probably couldn’t use one if I tried.
Yeah and phones in general are stupid. If you need to talk to someone that bad go get on your horse and go talk to them. And if its not that important them just stay home.
I love the way people arbitrarily decide what is too much convience, then bitch at other people . Get off the computer, I’m sure there some folks raisin’ a barn somewhere. And I sure as Hell hope you don’t don’t use any automotive transportion cause God gave you them feet for a reason.
This guy I know - a friend of a friend - walks around with a cellphone, a beeper, a fancy knife-pliers thing, a sunglass case and a Baretta 92, all clipped to his belt. We call him “Batman” and laugh in his face.
Let me elaborate. Cell phones used during PUBLIC EVENTS (as Milo has stated) such as sporting events or movies in a theater, are stupid. You don’t need to call your room mate and give them the play by play of the basketball game or share the plot of a movie. If they want to know, they should have bought a ticket themselves.
Cell phones used WHILE DRIVING A CAR/BUS/TRUCK/ZAMBONI are stupid. For one, it’s proven to be unsafe. For another, you look ridiculous. Whatever it is can wait, or you can pull your car to the side of the road where, not only are you making the road a safer place to be, but you actually look SMARTER. Why? Because you had the good sense to BE SAFE, that’s why.
No, I’m not deciding what to much convenience is. I’m not saying that we need to get rid of all cell phones. They can be very useful. (if your car breaks down, if you need to report an accident or an illegal activity to police, if your babysitter needs to reach you in an emergency, etc.) I’m just saying that it’s very rude when you insist on talking on a phone in the middle of a movie theater, grocery store, baseball game, etc.
I don’t look at the cell phone people and think “How important they must be!” I think “Poor git, he’s on a tether all the time and anyone can reach him.”
I proudly refuse to get a cell phone. I do not want my office – or my family – to be able contact me at anytime, day or night, no matter where I might be. If they could call me 24/7, with no problem too small or thought too inane – well, unfortunately, they would. When I’m at work, I’m at work, 100 and 10 percent. But when I’m gone, I’m gone, and I intend it to stay that way.
being a newbie, I should probably not be posting here. But I have to defend myself and people like me. First off I have had my share of being on call. I had to carry 3 pagers at once. not fun. That job is now gone. I now have a cell phone and I would be stuck without it. Yea I have an answering machine at home, but when your never home what good is it? As far as driving and talking I will admit that it can be dangerous, but it has to be done sometimes. As far as being safe and pulling over, It can be more dangerous to try to get over to someplace safe. Besides some of us know how to drive or in todays world Multitask.I will agree to the fact that if you are the type of person who can’t talk and drive and endup weaving all over the road GET THE FUCK OFF THE PHONE.Im not trying to look important, but when I get a call at the last minute asking me to play a show your damn right that phone is next to my ear anywhere I go. Wow I fell better. not much to say but as always it’s IMHO
Cell phone?
Guilty. And I love it. Yes, it comes in handy. No, I never use it at the movies, theatre, stadium, museum, whatever. Yes, I do have a car kit, allowing me to drive AND talk safely.
Pager?
Nope. Don’t need one when you have a mobile.
Palm?
I recently bought a Visor, and I love it.
None of these items I wear on my belt, though. I think that looks stupid too.
No, Jodi, you are not alone. I don’t like being too accessible.
I only recently got both a cell phone and a pager. I lived for years without them and was perfectly happy. My Mother gave me the cell phone and my Grandmother gave me the pager (why? I don’t know. I certainly didn’t ask for it).
The cell phone is nice to have. It would probably be even nicer if I ever remembered to turn it on. I like having it with me in case of emergency. I work late hours and my Mom worries about me - that’s why she gave it to me. As I admitted in another thread, I do call my little Sister from baseball games just to rub it in that I’m at the game and she has to work. But, they’re not those long play-by-play calls - I’m trying to watch the game.
The pager. Well, it’s in a drawer somewhere. I dig it out when I’m going to see my Grandmother. Who’s going to page me? Or, more importantly, I don’t want you to page me. The first couple of weeks I had it my sister would page me constantly. Once, I was in the movies and the pager went off with her emergency code (the pager was on vibrate). I kept trying to call her - no answer. So, finally, I figured whatever it was wasn’t all that urgent after all. Just as I got back to my seat, the pager went again. I called her again - again, no answer. As I’m trying to call her, the pager goes off again. Now, I was beginning to panic. I finally reached her - I was in an absolute frenzy. She was paging me like that because she tried me at home and I didn’t answer, so she wanted to know where I was. That was the day the batteries came out and the pager went in the drawer.
Don’t forget the snooty IT shmucks who walk around your office with the beeper, the cell phone, the palm pilot, the MP3 player, the walkie-talkie, the text pager and the leatherman tool all on their belt.
They look like dipshits.
I’ve always wanted to get loaded and kick the shit out one IT dickhead in particular and say
“Not so tough now, eh Batman?!”
as I stumble around in a stupor.
And if I ever quit, I think I will.
<Evil Grin>Heh-heh-heh!<Evil Grin>
I hate cell-phones and refuse to them. I’ve got an answering machine and public phones are plentiful.
Last week, I was in the check-out line at the grocery store. The lady ahead of me was placing her items on the conveyor belt with one hand. The other hand had a cell-phone in it, pinned to her ear. She looked around often.
She was not speaking into the phone. After more than five minutes she was handed her receipt and she put the phone in her purse. Again, she did not say a word into the phone!!!
I got the feeling there was no one on the line. She just wanted to impress upon all the lowly shoppers that she was a VIP. Moron!
And for the record, the next person who gets a call in the theatre while the show is going on, and has the balls to have the conversation there IN HIS SEAT in my presence, I will do many horrible things to. No jury would convict me.
