Shit…
I’m in the UC computer lab right now, trying to get some work done so the fucking registrar’s office won’t have to come to my house to reclaim that goddam diploma they’re gonna mail me tomorrow, and this chick sitting next to me has simultaneously been AIMing and yapping at her little demon plastic brick with the same person for the last half hour. I hate cell phones. Hate em hate em hate em.
Fuck her. I think I’m gonna fire up a camel right now, just to prove a point.
No, no, no. You have to pretend to have a conversation with yourself, in a very loud voice. Works every time.
I agree with you 100% about the cell phones, though. Does anyone really need to be on the phone 24 F’n hours each and every F’n day?
I know that devices have been developed that prevent people from receiving cel phone calls when in theaters, restaurants, whatever (though I don’t think they are legal in the U.S.) - what would it take to build a portable cel phone blocker? Couldn’t you build something that generates a lot of white noise on the same frequencies used by cel phones?
I’ve got one already… it’s called my bootheel.
That is a brilliant suggestion. I will try that the next time some asswipe answers his cell phone in the movie theatre.
Quoted from my LiveJournal
Okay, this isn’t Broadway or a film festival, nothing you paid big bucks to see. It was free.
BUT…it is your kid’s Spring Concert. Turn your freaking cell phone off, idiot!
The girl’s middle school Spring Vocal Concert was last night and if I had a nickel for every cell phone and beeper that went off, I would have, literally, about five bucks. It was constant.
And to make it worse, it was in the gym, which echoes. And of course, every cell phone has to play a cute little song. I came to hear the kids sing, not to hear your cell phone play Beethoven’s Fifth.
And what really killed me were the number of people who answered their phones and actually had a conversation. Totally stupid conversations, too.
“Oh, I’m at the Spring Concert. It’s really boring. The songs are really lame. It’s really hot in here. I wanted to watch a show on TV, but I’m stuck here.” Nice attitude, shithead.
And not once did I hear, “What? They found a donor heart?!? Great, I’ll be right there!”
Grrrr.
The other day I saw a young woman sitting on the floor in the middle of a very quiet Barnes and Noble having a loud argument on her cell phone and crying. Pathetic.
I had to step over her to get the book I was looking for…
I HATE using a cell phone in public! Even though my mother insists I take mine with me into the city and call her when I get there, and when I get on the bus coming back…it’s embarassing. I try to get off as quickly as possible.
Me and a buddy went to a concert a couple of months ago and had front row seats, and saw a couple of strange cell phone incidents. One was the ticket scalper in the seat behind us apparently using his cell phone to bootleg the opening act! Then, when the main act came on, there was this chick who kept pacing in front of the stage, talking on her cell phone the entire time! What was really funny was at one point she put the phone down as she was trying to grab the guitarist’s feet. He reached down, lighting fast, grabbed her cell and screamed, “Whazzup!” into it. She started bawling her eyes out and going to pieces over it. Never seen anything like it before in my life.
True, the FCC has prohibited any device designed to jam radio signals. Besides, such a device couldn’t tell the difference between a phone-addicted airhead and a doctor recieving a call for assistance for a patient in critical condition. Do you really want to take that chance?
-fh
The boyfriend and I bought a bunch of tickets for Seattle International Film Festival movies, and we’ve seen six or seven now. Before every performance, someone will stand up with a microphone and give a little intro to the film. Then the person says, “Please turn off all cell phones, pagers, beepers, watch alarms, or anything else that makes noise.”
Here’s the annoying part. 1) You’re in a movie theater and should know better than to still have your cell phone on anyway. The act of entering a movie theater should be enough to make you think, “Hey, time to turn the cell off.”
And yet, EVERY SINGLE TIME the person makes the announcement about cell phones, a handful of idiots in the theater get this “Oh yeah!!” expression on their faces and dive for their cell phones to turn them off.
YOU FREAKING IDIOTS! You don’t have the intelligence to know that you should have turned it off before coming into the theater anyway, AND you are apparently illiterate and unable to read signs?!?
I wish they had a guy making that announcement at every movie, not just the SIFF movies. Sometimes I just really don’t understand people.
Even worse is when after all that they still leave them on. Sure enough in the middle of the movie:
“dee-dee-dee-deeeee-da-dee-dee-da-dee”
Then they pretend their being discrete by talking low.
ONe guy did this to at a movie I was attend the second time my friend yanked it out of his hands and threw it across the theatre in to the wall. Not the best suggestion, but it worked.
People: YOU’RE NOT THAT IMPORTANT! THE CALL CAN WAIT! I BET THAT STUPID PHONE EVEN HAS A MESSAGE SYSTEM! AAARRGH!