Important issue 5 (cell phone tyrade)

(first written 11-29-2005)

You know what? I’m going to stand by what I said earlier. TURN OF YOUR FUCKINGCELL PHONES! It’s gone on to long. I’m sick and tired and pissed off on cell phone usage. So pissed off in fact, that I’ve dedicated this e-mail to the topic of cell phones. So I’m going to throw out a few rules and guidelines for cell phone usage:

First and foremost: turn them off. If your lives are so tethered to a cell phone, you need to seek help. I’m, not saying you can’t have it in on during the day, but turn it off now and then.
Like maybe when you’re in a movie. Listen: the people in the movie business waste time, humor, and creativity thinking up cleaver ways to make you understand that your phone is not needed in the movie. Please stop wasting they’re time and my sanity. Both are precious.
Next rule: having a classical song as your ring-tone does not make it any less annoying. Just because you have Beethoven blasting anytime you are needed does not make you come off as an intellect. It just makes it all the more obnoxious and pretentious. Similarly, it annoys me that people don’t answer the phone because they like their ring-tone so much that they want to hear the entire song. They let the call go and then call the person back. That bugs me. I can just imagine all the trouble that can get them in: the hospital calls telling you that your mother is in the hospital and you’re too busy listening to the new lil’ {insert rap name here (fancy)}’s single. Too bad the song is more important than the actual conversation you might have had.
But that leads to the next point of discussion: the content. Cell phone conversations should be short and concise. They should be to find out important information. The whole point (for me) is to talk to the person. So I see where they are and only if I can not see them personally will I ask my question over the phone.

The last point is something I am still on the fence about. When it comes to speaker phone on cell phones I’m not sure which way I want to go. On the one hand: I don’t want to hear the conversation at all, but since I have to hear it anyway, I’d rather here the entire conversation rather than just half of it. I think the rule is that you must use speaker phone if the person calls and interrupts a conversation you were having with someone in person. That way everyone is involved in the conversation.

My conclusion: cell phones are annoying and I personally believe they are….
*BUZZ*
Hang on….hello?......yeah I know……..right……did you check your pocket?......of course not…….idiot…….nothing……okay bye.
Sorry. No where was I?
Sam D.