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Do we really still need to talk about this? You’d think with over a decade of experience under our belts along with our inherent delusions of hyper sophistication that we’d have figured things out by now. But the sad truth remains: cell-phone douche-baggery is worse than ever! In terms of maturity levels, many of us rank amongst toddlers, interrupting anyone and anything with our loud nonsense, our little fingers obsessively pushing buttons with what’s left of our attention spans constantly distracted by various bells, whistles, and bright colors on tiny screens. This ridiculous need to be in touch with all people at all times is getting out of hand, and while we think we are staying more connected with each other, we are in fact treating those closest to us like China treated the Mongols. We’re building giant walls people! The following are basic cell phone rules of etiquette which people still can’t seem to follow. In fact, they should be called “How to use your common sense and remain polite in a human society.” Read them, learn them, and absorb them into your system as you would the vitamins from a mango smoothie.
1. Talking too loudly.
“YES! FOR THE LOVE OF BABY JESUS, WE CAN HEAR YOU NOW!” For some bizarre reason people feel the need to raise their voices while on their phones. I think we’ve come far enough, technologically speaking, to trust the phone’s microphone to adequately amplify and carry your voice. Your mouth couldn’t physically be any closer to the microphone, so unless you’re talking into it from a Captain Kirk distance or calling in an airstrike while under heavy machine gun fire, there’s no need to yell. Hell, even Kirk never raised his voice and he was communicating with an alcoholic Scotsman on a space ship!
Note: There are attention-seekers out there who speak loudly on purpose to “show off” recent accomplishments and victories to impress surrounding strangers. Do not hate on them too much, they were probably adopted and are cursed to constantly seek approval from anyone within earshot. Lord knows, I’m adopted, and that’s what I do.
2. Holding inappropriate conversations in public.
No one needs to hear how wasted you were last night, or what color your boyfriend’s boxers were on the night the two of you, um, “played Scrabble.” Keep your personal conversations personal. If you don’t want people to see you crying in line at the bank or while ordering a stuffed-crust pizza, refrain from having emotional conversations in public. Offer to call the person back, step outside, or find a quiet place where you can openly and unabashedly describe your new foot fungus.
3. Rudely interrupting conversations.
Have you ever felt the only way to maintain a conversation with the person right in front of you is to give them a call? Ever arrive at the climax of a hilarious story, only to have the momentum ruined by “Sorry, I gotta take this”? Why is the disembodied voice of someone else more important than the flesh and blood standing before you? It’s very frustrating to stand around waiting while your “friend,” date, or family member gets into a phone conversation on your time. When this happens, I recommend simply walking away. Even when you’re sitting in a restaurant, if your date would rather chat with someone else, then you should get up and leave immediately to find someone else. Or, as I mentioned earlier, call them on their other line. “Hey, how’s it going? How’s your sea bass? Isn’t the wine delicious?” If you can’t beat ‘em, call ‘em.
4. Checking your phone at the movies.
Movie theatre announcements and people who are quick to “shhhh” have done a decent job of reducing reducing cell phone rings over the years. But people are still checking their calls and text messaging rfiends, silently, but equally annoyingly. There’s a reason why we spend an arm and a leg to watch movies in the theatre. When the lights go out and the screen lights up, we try to forget our everyday troubles and we submerse ourselves into whatever the hell world we bought tickets for. We escape. But when out of the corner of our eyes we see someone’s entire face light up while they check their phone messages, we’re yanked right back to reality and are reminded of how many jerks per square foot there are in the world. Turn your phones off, have a little consideration for the people around you. The world won’t stop spinning if you’re unavailable for 2 hours. “But what if there’s an emergency?” The odds of an actual emergency occurring are astronomical. Besides, if there was an emergency, it already happened. You already weren’t there, and chances are the people who could actually do anything about it, already have.
5. Texting while driving.
Somebody please get the “Darwin Awards” on the phone. Of course, if you’re driving when you do, make sure you’re on hands free or have pulled over before you start explaining how there are people who send texts while behind the wheel of a vehicle. According to a Harvard University study, cell phones cause over 200 deaths and half a million injuries each year. And that’s with eyes on the road! Laws are in place to make sure people aren’t talking on their phones, and yet people are typing?!?! (I very rarely use the double question mark with the double exclamation point at the end of sentences, but this is ridiculous) I would love to see the tombstone: Was LOL when he WCTTFW (Went crashing through the freaking windshield) Anyone caught texting while driving should be stripped of their driving license forever.
6. Texting while talking.
You ever have someone try to listen to your story while text messaging someone else? You want to give them points for making the effort as they clumsily insert “oh yeahs” and “un huhs” at all the wrong moments, cutting you off mid-sentence with a “no way” as they furiously thumb type in your face, but at the same time you want to volleyball spike their phone to the ground for being unbelievably rude. A third option is tell better stories.
7. Texting small talk.
Does our friendship mean nothing? Have we become so lazy and disinterested in each other’s lives that we’re asking people to sum up their days with a text? “How r u?” “What’s up?” “What’s new?” These arbitrary questions are annoying enough when asked in person, but at least we have the ability to fire back equally insignificant responses in one second or less. But expecting people to waste their time typing “not bad, u?” or “same sh*t” or heaven forbid “let me tell you about my day” is about as lame and pointless as your appendix.
8. Loud and annoying ringtones.
I was riding the bus to work one morning, when out of nowhere the silence was shattered with screaming. It was the type of scream a frat boy lets out when a serial killer is in the process of gutting him with a fountain pen. I just about had a cardiac arrest and many of the people on the bus jumped out of their seats. It was only when the repetitive screaming suddenly tripled in volume that we all discovered the culprit: a cell phone. Some jerk pulled the phone out of his pocket, embarrassed at how loud it was, and accidentally dropped it on the bus floor. The joke now on him, the whole bus watched in amusement as this dude’s face grew redder and redder, scrambling to pick up and silence the screams coming from his phone. While there are far too many stupid ringtones out there to mention here, the story makes the point: turn down your stupid ringtone! No one thinks you’re clever, or funny, or musically savvy when you’re little pocket jukebox interrupts their thoughts. That guy on the bus probably thought his scream-tone was hysterical, but the looks on everyone else’s face read loud and clear: “What a douche bag!”
9. Disturbing live performances.
Comedy shows, concerts, plays etc…Nothing boils my blood more than having art ruined by a ringing cell phone. I nearly gave a security guard a standing ovation when he grabbed a gentleman by the collar and escorted him out of a Cirque du Soleil show for having his cell phone go off during a particularly dangerous acrobatic stunt. You ruin someone’s comedy act or interrupt an actor on stage, in turn spoiling the experience for everyone around you who’s spent their hard earned money on a night out, and you’re an arrogant douche-monkey who should be put in the corner with the rest of the 5 year olds. But when you disturb a performer who’s very life depends on needle-point focus and concentration, you should be put in jail.
10. Location location location
There are countless locations where “taking the call” is inappropriate and extremely annoying to those around you. The first two off the top of my head as the most frustrating are in libraries, and fast food restaurant lines. One of the last places on earth, aside from an empty church or your own bathroom, where people can go to read, think, and study in silence, is under attack by people who refuse to disconnect from the outside world. Does the word SSSSHHHHH mean nothing to you? Take the call outside, before someone throws “War and Peace” or Stephen King’s “It” at your head.
While ordering food, there’s no need to explain how annoying a phone call can be for both the restaurant staff and for the customers in line behind you. Check out how one Subway restaurant dealt with this problem. Again, if people are going to act like children we need to treat them like children. Well played Subway, well played.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Number eight always gets me. I was on the last train home one night (after a very tiring week in Scotland); the end of a eight hour journey. Anyway, this idiot decides it’d be a good idea to have, “I’ve got a bomb! I’m gonna blow this f***ing place up! I’ll blow us all to hell!” as a ringtone.
Baring in mind I’m on a train and half asleep, I practically had a heart attack (as did the entire coach).
Needless to say, he was kindly escorted off the train at the next stop.
August 13th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
My pet peeve - No taking calls while in the restroom!
August 13th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Cell phone talkers who can’t hear for whatever reason, so they talk even louder. Idiots!
August 13th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
I created the following list of 10 things to do to rude cellphone users after a run-in at a Barnes and Noble:
If this has ever happened to you, please consider the following tips:
1. You are not alone. Enlist the aid of the people around you.
2. Be confrontational and repeat your request to keep the volume down. Applaud people who initialize a confrontation.
3. Stand next to him, uncomfortably close, and talk to him as loud as he is talking to the person on the other end.
3. Take a few seconds to get the context of the phone call. No need to interrupt a family emergency, but I used the knowledge of his spill, and that he was talking to his boss, against him. For example, my rant went something like this: “Perhaps if you weren’t such a jackass with the paint, you wouldn’t have to apologize to your boss… why are you on the phone in a bookstore rather than cleaning up your mess on the stage?”
4. Talk to the person on the other end of the line. Considering it was his boss, I stated “I don’t know why you would hire someone so rude.”
5. If you have a camera-phone and overtly take a picture of the offender.
6. Set-up a website called “RudeCellPhoneUsers.com” and post picture of the offender.
7. If you want to be a part of a movement, seek out rude cell-phone users and confront them as well.
8. Suggest that Barnes & Noble post “No Cell Phone Zones” signs with suggestions where people can use thier phones. Similarly, take the book you were reading to the cashier and tell them you are going to order from Amazon because you could not concentrate with all the noise. If enough people do this, at least you cost Barnes and Noble the it takes to reshelve the books.
9. Do not move from you location. Make them move. Suggest a place called “Outside.”
10. When the call is complete, let them know that they were being rude.
11. BONUS TIP: Take the moral high-ground, always be polite. I should not have called him a jackass (even if he was one).
August 13th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
I’m seriously going to print this out and give copies to anyone who annoys me in public. The texting-while-in-a-movie one is so true, and it irritates me.
August 13th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Fast food lines and libraries, HA!, try on an elevator which is often combined with numbers 8, 1 and 2!
August 13th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
That last picture make me laugh before I even read that part of the article.
I work at a Subway, and it is astounding how many customers go through the entire line engaged in a phone conversation. It is very annoying and it holds up the line.
I’m going to show my manager that picture and ask her if we can put a sign like that up in our restaurant.
August 13th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
The comment about adopted people in the first item is incredibly rude and inappropriate. All it served to do was demonstrate a complete lack of knowledge on the subject. Being adopted does not make MOST people cry out for acknowledgement. SOME adopted people I am sure do, but they are the same people that would have attention seeking behavior in the first place. While the rest of the post made sense and would likely be funny, this rude cheapshot ruined the rest of the article and its humor for me.
August 13th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Here’s one that totally pisses me off too.
Wearing ur freakin’ bluetooth headset while totally not needed (not in a call && having ur hands free) ..
it’s not cool .. they don’t work decently .. let it go
August 13th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
I can’t lie… I am guilty of numbers 6 & 7 on occasion. However, when it comes to actually talking on the phone, I am a stickler for upholding proper cell phone etiquette. Nothing grinds me more then being in an elevator when someone else is talking on their cell phone.
August 13th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
My friend drove my car home after a big rugby game at my school and as I had had a few drinks (but wasn’t really drunk), I really didn’t want to drive the two blocks to my house, so she did since she hadn’t had anything. Of course, she was texting some guy on her phone and proceeded to slam my car into a car stopped at a redlight…
And totaled my car.
August 13th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
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August 13th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
I like to talk on my phone ALL the time so people just have to get used to it and deal with it!
JT
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August 13th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
4, 5, 8, 9 and 10 are the only ones that are actually just annoying or dangerous and affect other people around the cell user the most.
Texting small talk? Which is better, texting it, or me calling you to do it? In fact, what is wrong with small talk anyway? Get over it.
Interrupting conversations can be annoying but with cell phones being the only phone line for many college aged kids it is unreasonable to think your hilarious story is more important than a call from your work, or a prospective employer, or your parents even. It is about the context of who is calling and what the conversation is about and who it is with. I don’t answer my phone when talking to my boss, I do answer my phone if it is my Dad and a friend is telling a hilarious story that can wait.
Would it make any difference if I ignored your boring and uninteresting opinion while walking with you if I wasn’t texting and just staring off into space? Or is the problem that you are offended that people don’t treat everything you say as if it were pure genius.
August 13th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
It seems like all of these can be summed up as:
* stay calm
* try not to aggravate other people
which may be good rules for life as well
August 13th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
You forgot to mention the people who shop…on the phone! As a guy
who spent many years as a retail salesman, I can tell you nothing is worse than the douchebag customer who walks in while talking on a cell phone and CONTINUES the conversation while he points at items, snaps his fingers, and motions for you to come over, interrupting his conversation only to say, “yo, how much is this dawg?” then complaining about the price to the person on the phone and pointing to something else for you to grab. Happened all the time.
August 13th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
This was hilarious. Thanks for the post and the comment with the suggestions for harassing offenders. I am guilty of the in movie checking my phone - but only if the movie gets annoying and slow to me. -long music montages are hard to handle sometimes.
August 13th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
How about at concerts and gigs, when all you can see are people’s phone screens in the air blocking your view of the band just so some loser can take a dark, blurry photo on their camera phone that they’re never going to look at!
August 13th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
One of my favorite ways to deal with inappropriate calls…remember the childhood annoyance when a younger sibling would repeat every word you said a fraction of a second later? Works great. Encourage others around you to do the same.
August 13th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
#7 is dead on.. The only thing worst than small talk over im/text is serious talk over text/im… “Sorry you mom died, how’d it happen” is not the right thing to send over text and IM… Meet the friend face to face.
August 13th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Thats the subway near Columbus Circle in NYC! I saw that sign and thought it was brilliant!
August 13th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Working in a Deli really opens my eyes to the huge amounts of idiots out there. People will accualy make me wait to take their order while they are finishing up their conversation. Sure I am providing them a server they pay for, but really people… Get off your f-ing phone.
August 13th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Bravo! Needs to be said again and again. Was at Batman tonight: mobile moron to my left-I pay money for movies. Proms last night, Rachmananov’s Vespers: text moron on the floor of the arena click-clacking away. At proms few nights ago, Monteverdi’s Coronation of Popea: Blackberry moron in front. Mobile rudeness multiplies; code of etiquette must reign - to quell the anger one feels at having one’s experience and concentration ruined. Where are we going?
August 13th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Hey I’m adopted and for some strange reason I don’t go around seeking approval from people. Where did you make that connection you spastic!!
August 13th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
I’m a pharmacist and people always try to pick up their drugs while they are on the phone. They wont even hang up to get counseled on a med that could seriously hurt them if used incorrectly.
August 13th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
I had an ex g/f text me with the following: doc called, said lump on side is cancer.
WTF?!?
August 13th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
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August 13th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
If I’m in the bathroom and someone is talking while doing their business, I make it a point to flush a lot and generally be extra loud so it’s obvious to the party on the other end that they’ve been taken into the can.
August 13th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Also when walking and talking on the cell, please walk in a straight line so that those us who are paying attention can get around you! There is going to be sidewalk rage shortly, I am afraid unless this changes SOON!
August 13th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
I take a cellphone jammer everywhere i go. Can you hear me now? *click* You’re call is over.
August 13th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
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August 13th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
nuber 10 is from 45th and 3rd ave.
August 13th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
I was in the movie theater today when my friend’s friend takes out her phone and starts texting. If it had been a real short text i wouldnt have minded but the clicking lasted forever! Sometimes it is better not to have the phone on. My cousin’s prom was ruined when his friend got a text with really bad news (there was nothing he could do about the news since he would have had to fly across the U.S.)
August 13th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
I work in retail, for a company that is a stickler for customer service. It REALLY pisses me off when people are on their cell phones for the entire duration of check out. It just screams to me that I am just a machine that they are taking for granted to do everything perfectly and that I don’t matter in the slightest. This is probably my 3rd biggest pet peeve- 3rd only to the 13 year old girl who came in and destroyed all of our displays while explaining to her friends that it was the employee’s job to clean it up and to everyone who leaves 30 item wrinkled heaps in the dressing rooms.
It makes me so grateful when people are called while they’re at the counter and have enough respect for me to pick up the phone and tell the caller that they are busy and will call them back in a few minutes.
And people texting while others are talking to them is extremely rude!
August 14th, 2008 at 12:38 am
One thing you may have missed - listening to music on your phone’s speakers. At least around here, phones have become the boombox of this decade, with people walking in the street with (bad) music blaring from their phones. They don’t even turn it off on busses!
August 14th, 2008 at 12:50 am
Oh my got I violated all these
August 14th, 2008 at 1:06 am
While I agree that many of these points are valid, I have to wonder what it is about cell phone conversations that people are so offended by? One common complaint I hear is when people talk on their phones on the bus. If the volume is not that much different from a conversation one would have with another passenger, what is the problem?
I’ve always wondered if part of the frustration with overhearing cell phone conversations is the fact that bystanders only get half of the discussion, and then you’re left with the simultaneous desires to ignore the whole thing and to try and piece the whole conversation together. Just a theory.
August 14th, 2008 at 1:12 am
Re: Almiria and customer service.
Having worked as a barista years ago, I don’t understand your frustration at cell phone users. The job description is customer service: you serve the customer based upon their reasonable needs. If all they want from you is a sandwich or a latte, why should they watch you make it in silence? while I agree that they should at least have the decency to ask the person to hold while they place the order instead of indiscriminately point and then get mad when you can’t decipher said pointing, I don’t really need them to be admiring my work.
And then there’s the flip side, where customer service workers get annoyed when they get chatted it by the customer and grumble about that. Corporate motto may be the customer is always right, but employee motto seems to be the customer is always wrong.
Sorry for the tangent
August 14th, 2008 at 1:23 am
What everyone seems to have skipped over is just purchasing a cell jammer. The peace of mind of turning to the yappy moron behind you and saying “hush!” is priceless. After they’ve told you to bite me, you turn on the jammer. Once you hear the “hello? hello?”, you turn around and say, “I told you to hush…”. The look on their face is worth the price.
August 14th, 2008 at 1:26 am
I disagree with 8. I love my Animaniacs and Tformers ringtones…they feel nostalgic to hear.
But yea, I make sure it’s all off in school.
But hey, what can I say man-it’s the new version of ringing, I love music.
August 14th, 2008 at 1:33 am
I was standing in line at a Subway with a woman talking on her phone right in front of me. When the line moved a bit I realized the sign was right in front of the woman as she was talking and ordering her food. I guess at least she can’t text and drive because she obviously can’t read.
August 14th, 2008 at 2:26 am
I totally agree about Mobile etiquette. If the message is really that important then the one who wants to reach you would tell it to you personally.
Common sense is the underlying rule on this set of etiquette.
Nice List…and should be often posted.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:35 am
I think the phones are too dumb. I think my phone should know when I’m in a movie either by checking my calendar and seeing that I’m engaged, or through some location notification. Also thumb-typing is getting old…. I don’t understand the ear-phone when not talking complaint. I’d prefer to keep some ear-phone in all the time to double as hearing aids and noise cancellers depending on the circumstance.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:36 am
Cell phone jammers are worth their weight in gold.
August 14th, 2008 at 6:08 am
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August 14th, 2008 at 7:47 am
You missed my favorite… the elevator.
August 14th, 2008 at 8:16 am
One that gets me is people talking on xbox live to people on cell phones. MUTE YOUR DAMN MIC FFS!
August 14th, 2008 at 8:45 am
good for me, i am innocent of all those
August 14th, 2008 at 8:55 am
I think the worst of all public conversationalists, are those with the bleeping bluetooth headsets stuck in the ear. At least with a hand stuck to the ear you know what they are doing, when a person is just talking into the air you really start to wonder am I crazy or are they? I feel like Robert Deniro…. you talking to me?
August 14th, 2008 at 10:08 am
I agree with another person who objected to number 7…if you want to talk to someone starting with, “hey, what’s up?” you can if you want. “How are you” is just polite to ask, and if you genuinely want to know, I don’t see how it’s rude to ask.
August 14th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
and, remember folks, a true courtyard (not the faux ma;; “foodcourt” version of a courtyard) is NOT “outdoors.” I live in the city and too many times i have to confront inconsiderates who, upon noticing how quiet and peaceful the courtyard us, loudly and rudely pollute that same peace with their inane cellphone conversations — you know, just something to keep them from having to think while they smoke… what are the chances of bringing back PHONE BOOTHS and making them mandatory…?
August 14th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
I love texting while driving.
August 14th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Numbers 1 & 2. I’ve been tempted before to pay someone just to shut up long enough for me to enjoy my bus ride home in peace.
August 14th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
I don’t understand the complaint about texting while talking to someone else. At least for me, it’s easy to keep the trains of thought separate, and it’s simply more efficient, to be able to tell someone something, but be talking to someone else at the same time.
Also, re: cell jammers, not only are those illegal, they are also not targeted. Sure, you may cut off the annoying idiot behind you, but you have no idea how many important, useful, or simply non-intrusive conversations you’re ending.
August 14th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Being adopted is not a bad thing you arrogant and petty moron.
August 14th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Agree in general, but context is more important than catch-all rules. Also found the adopted comment offensive, but didn’t detract from the list as a whole.
August 14th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Christ, what’s with all the people bitching about the adoption comment? I’m adopted and I didn’t find it offensive in the slightest. It’s a joke, people. Live with it. Hell, I’ll bet half the people whining about it aren’t even adopted.
August 14th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
It’s the future, deal with it and quit your whining.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Just thought i’d chime in again and say how much I love driving and texting at the same time.
August 14th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
I actually have given number 1 some thought. I’d say the real reason is that you automatically adjust your own volume based on the surrouding noise level. Normally this isn’t a problem, but when you’re in the phone what you hear is the noise level at the other end, not the real noise level.
Several times I’ve had to mentally force myself to talk normally when the person in the other end is in a loud environment…
August 14th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
The only time I’m on the phone at Subway is if I’m taking orders from the person on the other end. If I was kicked to the back of the line because of that, I’d go away and take my business with me.
August 14th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
When I worked retail and people would come up to me to get checked out while speaking on their cell phones, I would just stand there and stare at them. Eventually they would ask why I wasn’t ringing them up, and I would say “Oh, no it’s ok, I’ll wait until you’re done. It’s obviously more important and needs your undivided attention.” They would either hang up or they would get pissed off and leave. Either way I wasn’t competing with the person on the other end of the phone for attention. I had a little more leeway than most as I was the store manager, but I made sure my employees did the same.
August 14th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
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August 14th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Another list on stumbledupon? Shut up!
All the same, it’s a really good one.
@Kevin: I have a good story about your #1.
Me and my girlfriend were sitting at the bar, having drinks on a friday after getting paid. Long story kinda short, this phone starts ringing 3 seats down from us, and NOBODY is sitting there. So it rings, and rings and rings for what had to be ten freaking minutes, and I looked at her and said I’m gonna go answer it!
So I did, and a girl obviously knowing my deep sexy voice didn’t belong to her man asked “where is _____”? I calmly told her that the phone was sitting on the bar and nobody had bothered to answer it for at least 5 minutes (like she didn’t know her role, but what the fuck ever, be nice). Taken aback by my rude actions, she hung up shortly after without even apologizing. The cunt.
Ten minutes later, this Joe block-rocker looking fucktard ambles in with 2 buddies and sits at the bar (my guess is they were doing lines off of the toilet tank lid in the bathroom). His girl calls AGAIN like magic and tells him about the dick that answered his phone.
So this cro-mag immediately gets barrel chested and bellows out “WHO ANSWERED MY PHONE!”, to the whole bar! The balls on this guy. Little did he know the whole bar had my back from the moment I moved towards the phone. Everyone saw me do it, but nobody said a word, not a peep. The barmaid told him he should either answer his phone or not leave it sitting around to annoy everybody.
If I were to be found out, I have no doubt the dude would have ended up on his back with loose teeth, courtesy of the other 20 willing patrons + me. Gotta love how the community pulls together sometimes.
@Brad: relax, it’s the internet, and you’re still adopted.
August 14th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
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August 14th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Omg, i wish the subway i worked at had that sign. One guy was carrying on a conversation one his cell phone about the different vegetables while trying to order his own sandwich. and he kept getting mad that i was putting veges on it that he didn’t want! well excuse me for following what appeared to be your instructions.
and if you are ordering a sandwich for someone else, write it down. old fashioned style. pen and paper.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:49 am
LOL i guess those rules applies everywhere
August 15th, 2008 at 5:15 am
I’ve once offered a guy, who sat in the cinema to my left and thought it might be a good idea to check his SMS with a bright shining display on his phone, to throw his f***ing phone right to the first row, if he won’t put it away again quickly. He looked quite irritated but followed my proposal without saying a single word. I love it when a plan comes together…
August 15th, 2008 at 10:28 am
all of these are true
you should go to our country its full of texters
nasty ettiquette too! them fools
thank god i dont have a cellphone
August 15th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
I cant stand it when people use foul language in public. especially on the cell phone. They start ranting and cussing totally oblivious to the fact that you might be nearby with your children. Im no prude, but I dont like listening to some punk teenager talk like that.
August 15th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
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August 18th, 2008 at 7:11 am
i don’t need some cunt advising me how to or not to use my mobile phone…..
August 19th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Hohohohoh…..I Talk with my cell phone every where and every time
LOL
August 19th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
The worst ringtone I have heard is of a baby crying. How bad!!?
August 21st, 2008 at 1:22 am
Okay, I know all of you are gonna be all hater on me, but: omg wtf get over yourself! it bugs u when ppl silently text at movies? stfu. u need to undrestand that just cuz u get pissed off easily duznt mean the pppl who piss u off unintentionally and by doin things that shudnt make u mad dont need to be given a second thought. Just move on with your life and ignore them. you dont like texting small talk? what the hell? and you dont even like talking small talk? d**n, but you’re antisocial. seriously. the point of small talk is that it might lead to conversing about something more interesting. the one about subway: what the hell? ok, if i get an important call on my lunch break, i shouldnt have to wait longer for my food! that is a fast food restaurant, and why the hell would they care if someone gets a call? maybe beause some b***h of a mom decided to complain about a particularly loud talker once, but honestly?? No talking on your phones? It just pisses me off hwo people get mad about the smallest things. Hypocritical, I know, but f**k off, you know what I mean.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:25 am
thank you frank and cranberries.
August 24th, 2008 at 9:59 am
This list is all about pure snobbery. I take my calls when and where I want. As long as it doesn’t put anyone’s life in danger it’s your problem dealing with it. Does anyone mind about me taking a call in the toilet or in a shop? Get te f*ck over it!
The point of having a cellphone is to actually be within reach to other people. I can’t imagine being confronted by other people for taking my call when *I* am the best person to judge whether I should take it or not. I think I’d respond just as strongly, so beware.
August 26th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Well sorry to disapoint you all but cell phones are here for ever now, as are rude people! Life sucks, get yourself a helmet!! I better go now, my phone is ringing!
September 1st, 2008 at 5:15 pm
The Rule about in the movies? Who the hell wrote this?? A What a creep! “When the lights go out and the screen lights up, we try to forget our everyday troubles and we submerse ourselves into whatever the hell world we bought tickets for. We escape.” I don’t escape from my everyday when I buy an $8.00 movie ticket. I don’t know anyone how does. I go to the Movies with my friends and family and have fun. That’s not to say I disrupt the movie but I certainly don’t try to escape. It’s not like it’s a vacation.I can just picture this person in the back of the movie theatre sushing people for coughing or whatever.
September 2nd, 2008 at 2:22 pm
These were incredibly funny and sooooo true. I applaud you for telling the truth
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:58 am
# Brad Says:
August 13th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
The comment about adopted people in the first item is incredibly rude and inappropriate. All it served to do was demonstrate a complete lack of knowledge on the subject. Being adopted does not make MOST people cry out for acknowledgement. SOME adopted people I am sure do, but they are the same people that would have attention seeking behavior in the first place. While the rest of the post made sense and would likely be funny, this rude cheapshot ruined the rest of the article and its humor for me.
I have to agree as being adopted I take offense to this. I would have thought the article could have been funny but it was ruined. There may be reasons that have to be taken to ensure a child gets what they need in life. You,Author Dan, are a Jackass!
September 4th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
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September 5th, 2008 at 9:41 am
First and foremost I just wanted to thank everyone taking an interest in the article and for submitting their comments, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed reading them.
As for Brad, Turdle, Anna, and Kevin, please see Gerard’s comment concerning the apparently “hot” topic of adoption. I couldn’t have said it better myself. Well played Gerard, well played.
“All it served to do was demonstrate a complete lack of knowledge on the subject.”
Well, this may come as a surprise to those of you who are so quick to call me ignorant,a moron, and a jackass, but guess what? Like Gerard, I AM adopted! Which gives me a fairly thorough knowledge on the subject, as well as the ability to joke about it without getting my proverbial panties in a twist.
In hindsight I agree that the little note in the article does seem out of place. But it was intended to be funny, and as a fellow attention seeker, I was able to laugh and write about it. You hyper-sensitive folks have inspired me however to make a slight modification to the piece, so thank you.
Oh, and I’m very sad to hear that one line spoiled the entire article for you. But that’s like letting the kiss between Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker (AFTER discovering they’re siblings) ruin the entire Empire Strikes Back! Oh…wait…. not that I’m comparing my little article with the Empire Strikes….shit. I’ve offended more people. I just can’t win.
September 8th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
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September 9th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
I think these are all right on!! There are few less socially damaging things on the world then cell phone, and paticularly text messages. I have seen actual relationship broken because of cell phones and texting. It’s sad. It’s almost a social disease, much like myspace and facebook.
September 9th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
@Chuckles, whether you are ordering something for someone else or not, it is still rude, I worked at Subway, and ordering for someone else is more annoying. People come in and read the entire fucking menu to the person on the other end and lists all the vegetables, holds up the line. If you need to order something for someone else then write it down or tell them to get off of their lazy ass.
Secondly, adoption has nothing to do with the way anyone acts. Most have been adopted into loving and supportive homes, while others needed to be adopted because they grew up in abusive homes.
Bitching aside I enjoyed this article. Etiquitte and simple curtoesy seems foreign in America.
September 10th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Well, if it wasn’t bad enough that the children of America are growing fatter every day, due to text messaging they are also growing progressively dumber. Check out this article, kids are using lols, abbreviations, and text slang in school assignments now. Un-be-freaking-lievable!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-schooltexting–0910sep10,0,89948.story
September 11th, 2008 at 4:56 am
While I think that you have made many good points here, I would like to say that the tone you adopted is quite rude. Like someone mentioned about the “adopted” people. You should refrain, in my humble opinion, to use expressions like these to try to send a message. It kinds of ruin the whole thing.
September 11th, 2008 at 8:16 am
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December 28th, 2008 at 11:18 am
hehe yeah same in lebanon
lol
December 28th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
LOL So FUnny !!
January 4th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Hey, this is an awesome list. I’m also try to see which phone is the best. When you have a moment check out my Top Ten Cell Phones project. Thanks.
January 6th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
I made a humorous video about this very topic. http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/d614d1ff7e/the-call-from-filmindie
February 9th, 2009 at 1:19 am
cellphone in our life
all of these are true
you should go to our country its full of texters
February 26th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
ANOTHER CONSIDERATION…
When you are on the phone with another person, and you are changing what you are doing, and will need to get off the phone with them at a point you are already aware of, try to notify the person on the other end, well prior to your need, so that you don’t rush them off the phone- YOU are responsible for the environment you are taking the other caller into, and so try to protect them from a rushed end to the conversation. IT IS ON YOUR SHOULDERS- not theirs. They cannot know what or where you are, and its up to you to be smart about that.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:47 am
i have been guilty of some of this but im workin on it…. but u kno wut really gets me? tha way tha words on this get smaller as u scroll down!