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remember the days when your were only on a leash at work and at home with the land lines..and you found PEACE while traveling
remember the days when you could pop up a sign that said gone fishing, and you were unreachable
cell phones have hurt us more than they have helped us
Amen to that.
A few weeks ago I was accosted because I ignored someone. I always see people walking down the street or on the bus talking to themselves (they have a Bluetooth or something) so I ignore people when I hear them talking because I don't know if they are talking to me, or talking to someone else.
I have no problem with people talking on their phones at a low volume. But there's a certain number of people that talk so loud you can hear their conversation from across a large room. Just recently I was in a hospital waiting room. It's large, about 70' x 70'. Lots of people were in there, and one woman, on the far side from me, was talking so damn loud the entire room was giving her the stink eye. She managed to even wake someone up who was sleeping on a sofa. But she just kept shouting into her phone about her shopping list, what she had to do at work, etc. How can people be so oblivious that they are shouting? The phone is right next to your mouth, you can talk below conversation level and it will transmit your voice fine. Have some courtesy.
I guess all the above is me agreeing with the guy in the story. People at the front of the bus shouldn't be able to hear someone talking into their phone at the back of the bus.
On one hand, I support the jammer....having commuted by bus and rail for a good portion of my ealier life I know all about the rudeness.
However, if it's jamming *everyones* communication you may be screwing over someone else that is discretely having an important conversation that is pretty important.
Sometimes people don't learn until they are fed their own medicine. If jamming someone's conversation is a great idea... be prepared to get jammed, with or without a valid reason. To many, it just might make for an amusement at the expense of others, regardless of the situation.
there is definitely a public movement against cell phones.
Better late than never, eh? The phone company could never have gotten customers to pay for incoming as well as outgoing calls over traditional telephone lines. They saw their opportunity when the cell phone started to become popular...and they were on top of it immediately. The public went along without so much as a whimper.
H.L. Mencken was right; you'll never go broke underestimating the American public. (And he said that nearly 90 years ago!)
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