cell phone etiquette

Docking points is too lenient. I'd reduce their grades by one whole point.

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I'm bemused by the weak egos who use the wireless airways as a permanent umbilical cord between themselves and their private lives.

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I sat behind some guy at a college basketball game, who yakked on the phone, stopping only to hand money to his hyper kids so they could make endless trips to the concession stand. Wonder what he was getting away from at home.... Shocked

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Re: cell phone etiquette

Tenoch wrote:

Nowadays you can't have a conversation with a 20somthing girl without being interrupted by her cell phone 5-10 during the date.

Oh, puleez. Rolling Eyes

Not all 20-something girls are like that. That's stereotyping to the utmost unfairness.

I bet that her answering the phone poked the hell out of your ego because that might have been an indication that she wasn't so amused with the way things were going with the date.

I think that people should answer their cell phones if they want to. It's nothing more than a matter of personal choice.

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And then have their tongue slowly pulled out of their heads with horshoe plyers until the suspensor musles are irreperably extended so that whenever they open their mouths again their tongues will just slide out uncontrollably.
That would make my day.

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Superjuly: So if you are working in a store waiting on a customer, or in an office dealing with a client, or on a date, and your cell phone rings, the customer or the client or the date is, like, not very important. Personal choice or sheer arrogance?

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Cmon super july, of course i'm generalizing and sterotyping.. Also it doesn't hurt my ego. I actually dumped a couple of girls that had phone habits like this. I bet they are still wondering why i stopped talking to them.

Actually to have an opinion on how a date is going you have to talk to the other person. How can you get to know somebody if half the time they're yapping to their friends about the weather. It's not a matter of personal choice, it's a matter of respect.

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I carry my phone with me everywhere I go. But I don't answer every call...if I'm busy, or doing business etc...I have this dandy lil thing called voice mail...I let it take care of it for me. Than check it when I get ready too. As for home,...its usually off or on silent.

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It's up to them to use their common sense to decide whether they should or not answer their phones in a situation like that.

I agree that it is disrespectful to be talking on the phone while on a date and whatnot, but we can't generalize this.

c.i. thinks that using a cell phone at a restaurant of coffee shop is inconvenient, and msolga finds it annoying when someone is "talking actively" on their cell phones while driving. I find these two examples a bit of an exaggeration.

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Imagine if you were on a date with a male, or maybe your boyfriend. Wouldn't you be pissed if he spent half the time on the cell phone talking to his friend about football?

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He wouldn't be attached to me anymore, that's for sure.
Phone's off when he's with me.
Simple enough.

I'm glad that a lot of jurisdictions are making phone use while driving illegal. It's simply too dangerous. Forget about annoying. It kills people.

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ehBeth, You're right on! Read this. http://www.morganlee.org/

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A bill was introduced in my state's legislature (Virginia) that would ban the use of a cell phone while driving (hooray) ... unless the driver was over the age of 21.
The bill got defeated, I believe.

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I think it is more about what you are talking about on the phone than the fact that you are using one.

Truck drivers have been using CB's for ages and I doubt that it has been the cause of many accidents. I also doubt that many of their conversations on them are very engrossing either.

I personally use my cell phone for quick where are you , want to meet up types of calls that don't take my attention away from the road. It's the people that are engaged in serious conversations that are the liability on the road.

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Like there's a police out there that can determine between the serious conversations and the light-hearted ones.

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I just keep mine on vibrate. You know what Im talkin about

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sublime1 wrote:

I think it is more about what you are talking about on the phone than the fact that you are using one.

Truck drivers have been using CB's for ages and I doubt that it has been the cause of many accidents. I also doubt that many of their conversations on them are very engrossing either.

I personally use my cell phone for quick where are you , want to meet up types of calls that don't take my attention away from the road. It's the people that are engaged in serious conversations that are the liability on the road.

CB's can be as much as a problem as phones, sublime1. I've had more than a few files where it seems the trucker lost control while distracted by his conversation. This is a big concern for anyone on the road.

Any conversation has been found to be a risk in recent industry studies. Interestingly, they haven't been able to pick out if conversations with people outside of the vehicle are more of a problem than conversations with people in the car. Makes me think that the ex who wouldn't let people talk to him at all while he was driving might have been on to something.

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I'm not saying its enforceable, just that people should take it upon themselves to limit their usage on the road.

If you need to have a serious conversation right then and there you should pull over.

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It seems that conversations inside the car would be more dangerous because people have a tendency to try to make eye contact during conversation.

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Quote, "I'm not saying its enforceable, just that people should take it upon themselves to limit their usage on the road." ROFLMAO...

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