Emcee + mean, scary New Yorker = — Page 3

Cellphones have never really annoyed me. I mean, if someone answers one when they shouldn't (in a movie, show etc.) then they annoy me, but frankly, we've all talked on them when it MIGHT annoy someone and people just need to chill out cause it's not gonna hurt them.

Oh, and Emcee, if you throw a shoe at him you'll have an odd shoe left over! Try a book instead. Hardcover

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Well, unless you're sitting in solitary confinement or in a very wide open space, chances are someone who could potentially be annoyed is going to hear you. And you shouldn't have to walk around worrying that someone's going to jump down your throat for going about your business - unfortunately not every person is the picture of selfless perfection like some of us put ourselves up as, hm?

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Then we're all selfish, horrible beings, I think.

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Some don't need open spaces. Some don't feel the need to have a phone to their ear 24/7. Some don't feel the need to use a cell phone except for emergencies. If people honestly think about it, how much really needs to be said in public? How much is nothing but time killing blabber?

Oh my God, what shoes are you going to wear on Sunday? Should I buy the red hair clips or the purple? I just used the best lip gloss. It makes my lips look like Pam Anderson's.

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Emcee, reading this thread is getting me all agitated about the use of cell phones in public places, confined or otherwise.

I used to ride an elevator in the gym that went down 3 stories. That's it. Ground to 3 and back again. Some people would get on at 3 on the way day and immediately start on their cell phones. Nothing is that important that it could not wait until the person arrived at the the ground floor and exited the elevator. Nothing.

A great tactic to counter the public cell-phone annoyer is to get engage in their conversation...

Cell Phone User: Should I go to the Hamptons or stay in the city to go to Harry's party?

The Annoyed Passerby: Go to Hamptons. I heard they're having huge BBQ at Richard Gere's house and you're invited.

Cell phones in restaurantes should be totally banned. No questions asked.

If you have a reason to take a cell phone call in a restaurant, then it must be so urgent that you have no business being in the restaurant dining anyway.

Then again, I once poured a glass of red win over a young woman's head because she would not get of her friggin cell phone in a restaurant. The waiters applauded me after the incident was over. I guarantee you the woman will never use a cell phone in a restaurant again.

I guess I have strong opinions about how/why/where cell phones should be used.

I'm glad you weren't in my office elevator.

trying to explain your own rudeness by justifying the rudeness of others is illogical....

He was rude...no doubt.
I was recently at "Doubt" and someone took a call on her cell at the point when Adrinne Lenox had entered...
I am certain she could "justify" it, but I wonder why the actors just did not stop
There is public behavior, and private behavior.

My office is on the top floor my building...more than 5 stories.

One day I get on to go down and on the floor immediately below me to guys get on. We have a way to go. They immediately get on their respective cell phones. One is speaking in English, and the other one in a foreign language. The one speaking in English was an Hindu. I asked the guy, in English, if he would not mind waiting until we reached the ground floor. He turns that around into a question of discrimination asking me why I asked "him" to get off the phone and didn't ask the other guy. That I targeting him because of his skin color. Whahhhhhhh?

I came to the conclusion that people who believe they have toal liscense to speak on cell phones in elevators, no matter how long or short the ride, have serious self-identity issues.

Emcee, you have disillusioned me.

I'm afraid I'm in complete agreement with etoile, Jose and the guy in question.

Have you ever sat in the subway or on a bus, trying to read or simply relax for a few moments, and had 3-4 separate conversations going on around you? Then you walk out on the sidewalk and you're surrounded by even more people LOUDLY involved in each of their own conversations. I consider it today's most annoying version of sound polution.

You have no idea what that man went through before you invaded his space with your conversation. It might just have been the straw that broke the camel's back.

If I wasn't such a woose, I might have reacted the same way.

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I have to agree with emcee mostly on this one. While what she was doing may have been rude, what right did the guy have to tell her what she could or couldn't do on an elevator? And could he not have been polite about it? Two rudes don't make a polite. What? And personally, I don't have any problem with cell phone. It's a sign of the times. People are always going to be on cell phones. Anyways, that guy had no right to hold the elevator like that. I don't know, a polite request maybe. But I think that guy went over the top. I had a rude experience in an elevator earlier this year. Hmmm... it was in NYC too.

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Noise polution is exactly what it is. We can't do much about the sound of traffic and construction, but incessant prattle is controllable.

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I heard there is a little gadget one can buy that scrambles cell phone signale.

When someone near you is being annoying on their cell phone, and ZAP! The signals are screwed up...and they are at wit's end because the call was broken.

I have been hunting and hunting and hunting for that. lol