i haven’t gotten used to them yet. i still think the person using them is a garden-variety acid burnout schizoid (got a lot of them here in the bay area).
i’ll cross the street to get away from them and muse to myself, ‘my, that crazy homeless person was certainly neat and clean… d’oh!’
I’ve used my hands-free thing a few times in public, and I never thought I looked cool, I only thought I looked kinda stupid. But it was convenient, so I used it anyway.
I really don’t think a significant amount of people thinks it looks cool. It’s not like the things are expensive; it came free with my phone and I’ll bet they can be found for ten bucks or less.
Wow, it begins to look like RickJay and I are the only ones around here who understand the difference between life-and-death emergencies and inconvenience.
What is wrong with carrying a cell phone for convenience?
Not a thing in the world. But one shouldn’t confuse it with need.
Who did that?
Nope, I won’t die without my cell. But I pay $40 a month so that I can talk to my little sister whenever she wants me too. I can go off to college three states away and still be a loacl call for my family.
Neither on of us will die if we don’t talk. But this way I don’t feel like I’ve deserted her right when she’s getting to be a cool person.
As for hands free sets, perfect for cold days when I can’t find my gloves. (I don’t have a car, but I do walk just about everywhere i need to go.) Didn’t know I was supposed to think it was cool.
Well, I don’t want to put words in anyone’s mouth, but RickJay said (emphasis added):
and to date, Stiletto, SkipMagic, and DarkWriter have all made a point of disagreeing with him.
T’other day while driving through Old Town Alexandria, Va., I watched a young urban professional suit guy almost get nailed by a cop car while he was obliviously talking and smiling and walking. He was apparently so enthralled in his conversation that he didn’t notice all traffic had stopped and throngs of pedestrians were at the corners waiting for the wailing speeding police car to pass. He sauntered right out onto the crosswalk, causing the cop to slam on his brakes. He jumped out of the way and continued his merry conversation. I would have loved to grab that phone and smash it on the sidewalk.
I have to carry a phone for a 5-day stretch about once every other month, but this is a military order and I dred hearing it ring. My own cell stays in my bag for emergencies and it was incredibly handy on 11 Sept. when the regular govt. phones shut down. It enabled me to call my wife and folks and let them know I was still alive. But other than that, I hate talking on the fucking phone anyways.
Lately I've taken to saying "Can you hear me now?" when I walk by someone jawing on the phone.I dumped my land line to save $$ and because I’m not usually at home when people tend to call me–so the cell phone makes a lot more sense overall. I think a lot of people are going to be going this way, since it actually is more sensible to have your phone WITH YOU, as people don’t usually call a house, they call a PERSON…
…and I said “Why does someone NEED to be contacted in order to carry a cell phone?” which I think puts me in the category that you claim is exclusive to you and RickJay, I’d think.
So, basically, you’re defining exclusively need = life-and-death situation.
Must remember that one.
Client: We need this by Friday!
Me: No you don’t.
Client: But we’ll lose $5million if we don’t get it!
Me: Yes, but noone will die.
:rolleyes:
pan
And of course, no one ever had to be subjected to other people’s conversations in public before cell phones were invented. Ye gads. :rolleyes:
Is it just me, or is this “People who talk on cell phones in public are downright rude” mindset just a little bit whacked? Yes, there are many situations where talking on a cell phone is, indeed, rude. They pretty much correspond to situations where talking to someone else at all is frowned upon (such as movie theatres, business meetings, dates, etc.). Why is talking on a cell phone being so unilaterally vilified?
As other people pointed out, using your cell phone to take advantage of otherwise idle time to catch up with family and friends should be a good thing. Just because it’s not of professional importance doesn’t mean that it is not, in fact, important to me.
Yeesh.
Because people tend to speak more loudly into their phones than to another person right next to them.
And because people, when on the phone, often believe themselves to be in a separate and private world, and therefore often share more personal things with their phonemate than they would otherwise.
I carry my cellphone with me at all times, just in case. Not that an emergency or anything will ever come up but you just don’t know. It came in extremely handy a few weekends ago, I was in my car, about a half hour from home, with no plans in particular. The cellphone rings, it’s a lady friend of mine, a beautiful, 6’ tall, raven-haired friend, to be exact. She looking for someone to play tennis with, so, thanks to the cellphone, I got to spend part of my afternoon playing tennis with her. Well, sorta tennis, since we both stink to high heaven at it. Without a cellphone I may have come home who knows when to find out she made other plans.
I do believe I will continue to carry my phone with me, thankyouverymuch.
I’m not really sure what your point is here.
Sheri
Some people, perhaps. I certainly haven’t noticed this trend. And I know lots of people who are quite loud talking to their friends when they are standing right next to each other.
:shrug: OK.
I suspect, however, that I’m not the first to notice an increase in speaking volume from cell phone users.
I’d call the cell phone pretty necessary in that situation. Going to play tennis again?
I sure hope so swoon 