Community weekly poll: What gets under your skin about public cell phone usage?
- 8/15/06 4:30 PM
Talking on cell phone with one hand on wheel while driving.
by RevRob - 8/16/06 9:39 AM In reply to: What gets under your skin about public cell phone usage? by Marc Bennett
I think that it should be against the law to drive while driving as it is distracting and the driver who does it the most ends up at a stop talking and not paying attention to the light change or traffic around them. If you are allow to talk on a cell phone while driving it should be with an ear attachment so that both hands are on the wheel as this is a law in most states.
Cell Phone Bad Habits
by DougM - 8/16/06 9:51 AM In reply to: What gets under your skin about public cell phone usage? by Marc Bennett
All the above.
Public Cell PHone Use
by schellack - 8/16/06 9:56 AM In reply to: What gets under your skin about public cell phone usage? by Marc Bennett
I work in retail part time and eventhough I HATE drivers who talk on the cell phones (because you do need total concentration and a conversation is definitely a diversion or else DMV would not fail you if you drive with one hand), I cant believe how folks can walk into a place of business while conversing on cell phone, and then ask YOU, the customer service Rep to "hold on" until they finish talking. Why not stay in your car; stay outside. How many times have we stood on line in a store waiting for the CSR to finish a conversation that WAS work related? wasnt fun, huh? Less fun when it is a personal call.
It also could be dangerous; cant tell who is walking up on you to Mug you, rape you or whatever!!
Make's me mad!!!!
by gtbone - 8/16/06 11:48 AM In reply to: What gets under your skin about public cell phone usage? by Marc Bennett
Some fool walking around in the grocery store asking their wife "should I get the large or small sack of carrots"instead of writing a list.Make's me want to grab that cell phone and stomp the Hell out of it!!!!!
Usage of Cell Phones
by mskrugel - 8/16/06 1:31 PM In reply to: What gets under your skin about public cell phone usage? by Marc Bennett
I chose other because all of the offenses listed are rude and annoying to those around them. While driving and talking on a cell phone is dangerous. I have been in public places and had to listen to people having loud and long conversations. I'm sure some of them have a problem hearing because of the other idiots on their cell phone. It's just very rude!! If you must talk on the phone, go to the Rest Room or outside.
All of the Above
by fjord_fox - 8/16/06 3:44 PM In reply to: What gets under your skin about public cell phone usage? by Marc Bennett
I couldn't choose any one of the list, for they are all obnoxious to me. I am a cell phone user myself, but when I receive a phone call I either remove myself from the rest of the people, to a nice quiet area, or if I cannot do that, I simply say, ''I'm sorry, but I can't talk now. I'll call you back later.'' Sometimes, when I am in a bad situation where I cannot do even that, I simply make a mental note of who is calling me, and then hit the phone call cancel button, and call them back when I can talk in private. Why can't more people show as much respect?
One day, when I was riding a bus for a 30-minute bus ride, I was sitting across from a girl who received a phone call shortly after I took my seat. She was talking very loud and began to cry. Then, through her sobs, she was shouting, ''OH PLEASE DON'T DUMP ME!'', and you could imagine how the rest of her conversation was going. Everyone on the bus was forced to hear her sob story and she was still on the phone when I got off the bus.
People should not be so rude as that. There are now laws as to where one cannot use his cell phone, such as libraries, movie theaters, buses, and restaurants, to name a few. It would be nice if cell phone users would respect these laws and be more polite to others around them.
My Say On This Topic
by DaSpEcTeR - 8/16/06 4:22 PM In reply to: What gets under your skin about public cell phone usage? by Marc Bennett
I don't have a problem with people using a cell phone. It has really never bothered me. One of the things I hate is when people have those crazy ring tones that are so loud and so stupid. I would honestly be embarrassed to have some of the garbage tones users are playing. An example of such is explicit music which contains sexual and vulgar themes. They should just leave the volume down and enable the vibrating setting. Also loud cell phone users are really annoying. They should also keep the conversation at a minimal when in public.
Cellphones are not dieties
by IronManCurtis - 8/16/06 7:21 PM In reply to: What gets under your skin about public cell phone usage? by Marc Bennett
IMHO that's the problem with cellphones - the nut behind the wheel. People feel compelled to answer, converse, obeying the dimunitive demigod dutifully, obsequiously. They feel it's somehow wrong to just let the voicemail take a message.
Sheesh.....
I've been a ham radio operator for many years. We use base (home/fixed location), mobile, and handheld 2 way radios under many diverse situations. We tend to take a totally different tack. When we call another ham, we understand they may <gasp!> be doing something else more important. If they don't answer our call, we simply stand by and wait a while. And when they do answer, we understand that the person on the other end may not respond immediately. We show patience.
With cellphones, a pause is frequently a dropped call, which puts yet more pressure on conversants to pay full attention to the phone as they should, and ignore petty distractions like pedestrians and Peterbilts.
Part of the problem is the cell carriers. Instead of sensibly letting it ring a programmable dozen or so times, they cut off the call after an EXTREMELY unreasonable four rings. This throws recipients into a panic as they scramble to find their phone and answer before their call is (sometimes) lost. And there is no way around this. If you have voicemail, you cannot turn it off or set it for more rings before forwarding. This benefits cell carriers in less "wasted airtime", but costs in terms of wasted life and limb. Voicemail, like answering machines, is designed for stationary operation, where we have time and opportunity.
Most cellphones have GPS receivers. These could be used to detect vehicular operation (no one walks @ 55 MPH) and disallow cellphone usage unless via handsfree means.
HOWEVER, I am absolutely and unequivocally opposed to mandatory controls and restrictions. You cannot legislate intelligence and logic. All you do is confuse, frustrate, and create yet more problems in a relatively new technology.
The answer is glaringly obvious. Educate. Help cellphone users alter currently accepted CellMores. The caller is almost certainly not God (if it is, I suspect he will understand 
Let the machine pick up rather than dial into a digital destruction derby. And if you call and get no response in 3 rings, hang up and redial a time or three. If the carriers won't give us more rings, we can make them ourselves.
Cell carriers, PLEASE give us a little control. Let us set voicemail to at least 8 rings (and maybe return a unique ring cadence e.g ring-ring.....ring-ring.... to callers so they know to let it ring).
And please let us turn OFF the ferschlugginner machine when we don't want it picking up!
IronMan
Cellphones are obnoxious !!!!!!
by axefan - 8/16/06 8:13 PM In reply to: What gets under your skin about public cell phone usage? by Marc Bennett
I vote on all of the questions in a negative vein.
Most cellphone users come across as braindead.
They cannot exist without a phone stuck in their ear and do not care how it affects others.
I do not like to listen to one half of a (usually worthless) conversation that couldn't wait for a private moment.
Cellphones are the Disco of the Day.
Die Cellphones, DIE !!!!!!
Cell phone use
by vikee - 8/16/06 9:03 PM In reply to: What gets under your skin about public cell phone usage? by Marc Bennett
All of the above. Plus cell phones in school. No body in any school needs a cell. Its just one of they ways kids can skip without mummy or daddy can catch them.
for every reason you mentioned
by jonah jones - 8/16/06 10:46 PM
In reply to: What gets under your skin about public cell phone usage? by Marc Bennett
give a normal civilised human being a cell phone and he/she turns into an obnoxious self centered egotistical piece of yak dung!!
i'm waiting for the day when there is a pen sized "cell phone killer" that will cut of all cell phones for a 20 yard radius....
jonah
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Cell Phones vs. Reality
by Batchain - 8/17/06 4:44 AM In reply to: for every reason you mentioned by jonah jones
People aren't normally civilized and it becomes even more evident when all you want to do is have some space in front of you to clear an aisle while some nitwit is blocking it with his or her carriage or cart in a shopping mart or a similar clearance to get in or out of the door.
What the hell is it that causes so many people to lose all sense of immediate physical reality and become somehow so entranced by their cell phone chatter?
I'm tired of *politely* forcing out a loud cough, sometimes two or three times, to get these fools to move and clear me the normal amount of space I've needed -- and invariably they give you a stare of indignation while you're thinking about how *very impolite* what you *really* wanted to say was. Oh, would *that* ever have grabbed their attention!
New Technology
by wilmaflintstone - 8/18/06 7:07 PM In reply to: for every reason you mentioned by jonah jones
You mean there's not........
Cell phone killer
by aefron3 - 8/23/06 8:56 AM In reply to: for every reason you mentioned by jonah jones
Make it a a 50 yards radius!!
So you can disrupt emergency services calls too?
by coalman - 8/25/06 10:26 AM In reply to: for every reason you mentioned by jonah jones
Short-sighted people like yourself fail to realize that such devices would disrupt communication with emergency services personnel. I am a former employee of a company that provided dryout services for people whose homes had flooded. If you came home from work to find your house flooded due to a pipe leak & called your insurance co., the ins. co. would call a company like ServiceMaster (for whom I worked) and I would be expected to high-tail it to your place to help you. I have had to leave restaurants, movies, and church to answer the call of duty. I was on call 24/7. What do you expect people like me to do - just never go out in public so that I don't disturb your little world by receiving a call?
Who is the person who is being self-centered here?
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