Cell phone habits that make me mad!
I have had a cell phone for many years now. I got it when I went to college as I needed it for work, and to friends and family could get a hold of me (I had a somewhat crazy class and work schedule). I always try to be polite in my usage of the phone. I have a list of some big annoying cell phone habits that really, really bug me.
1. Talking too loud.
Are Americans f*cking deaf? I am tired of hearing girls “OMG, did you…” or some sales guy screaming in a phone about making the quarters biggest sale. Or better yet, the idiot that takes the phone and shoves the microphone pickup right in front of his lips, you know to make things easier to hear. It isn’t like you are in a war zone, and are trying to call in an airstrike. Better yet turn you speaker up so I can hear all your conversations.
2. Having private conversations in public places.
There is a time and place to talk about you newest case of VD, like at you home! I can’t tell you how many times Icat before after or during a class and some guy or chick would be conversing about their drunken escapades or last nights hot hookup. Not only are these stories not appropriate for public, when youcombine it with number 1, you just look and sound stupid. Again turn up your speaker so everyone can laugh at your personal life.
3. Leaving the phone on during a movie.
I don’t go to the theater to pay $10 a ticket, purchase $12 in overpriced pop and popcorn to hear your phone ring and listen to how your stupid significant other just hurt your feelings. Turn the phones off. If you can’t go 2 hours without your phone super glued to you ear, then you should be forced into some rehab camp that has no phone, or contact with other human life.
4. Interrupting conversations.
Have you ever been telling a story, or joke and you reach the climax only to be interrupted by the ringing of a phone. Not only that,but the person then says “o this might be important”. Then they answer the phone and completely ignore you. So you stand around waiting to finish. Many times I just walk away.
5. Texting or emailing while driving.
This is just asking for trouble. Your eyes should be on the road, checking your mirrors and concentrating on the cars around you. You should not have your eyes on you keypad as you type LOL for the hundredth time. Anyone caught texting while driving should be stripped of their license and flogged in the nearest public venue.
6. Texting during a conversation
How many time do people start a conversation then in the middle they receive a text message, then they become a retarded moron as they try to carry on the conversation with you and try to send a text message back? The person will insert an “Oh”, or “really”, “no, way” or some other dumb interjection that doesn’t fit with the conversation. I would love to take phone and snap it in half!
7. Texting when email of a simple voicemail would be better.
I hate texting, it is expensive and email and voice mail achieve the same results. Friends will text me asking what I am up to. Well why waste my time sending a 20 cent reply, most of my friends are on the same carrier, the call is free, if I cant pickup voicemail is free too. A30 second call is cheaper and faster than the stupid text messages going both ways.
8. Loud or annoying ringtones
I worked in a public library for almost 6 months. I can’t even begin to tell you how annoyed I get when loud ringers go off. I would be in the middle of working on homework at the library, or helping a patron when the guy’s phone in the next isle would start playing rap or some other crap. Many times I would have to ask to have the ringer turned off. Look, a library is a quite place; there should be no need for someone to ask you to turn your ringer off
9. Letting your children have a cell phone.
I was 19 when I got my first cell phone. Do 7 year olds need one? How many friends do 7 year olds need? What the hell do they have to talk about? What are they going to do business transactions over them, trade their stocks?I think not. Are they going to use it to invite little Johnny or sue down the street over to play? Get real people; get a phone for those that will actually use it. Just because your kid can dial a phone doesn’t mean they need a blackberry to act like you.
10. Locations
I have also worked as a deli clerk at a grocery store (o do I know some hard salami jokes). The store was in a well-to-do community. There were hundreds of jackasses with their Bluetooth headsets that would walk up to the counter, just as you would try to help them, they would push the headset and talk on the phone. Then in the middle of the conversation they would bark orders to you for what they wanted. I see this happen time after time, at restaurants, in doctor’s offices, etc. How many times has some held up a line somewhere because they don’t get off the phone? I also have heard people talking on the phone while in a public bathroom. Once I hear them I flush toilets, urinals, turn on the faucets, and if possible fart as loudly and closely as I can to the phone, that way the person on the other end of the call knows that the caller in the bathroom.
11. Bluetooth
Don’t get me wrong, Bluetooth is great. I have had a Bluetooth headset for a long time. It has saved me a lot of fumbling around trying to hold a phone and use both hands (I use it mostly driving or when on technical support calls). But really to you need the thing attached to you head for hours a day. Even with the best designed headset you still look like an idiot when you wear one while not on the phone. People would walk around the grocery store with a headset dangling from their ear (some had one on each ear) as they went around. They all had a little blue light blinking and all looked like morons.
In short, get off the damn phone!