Phriggen Phones!

[Mottom24]

after reading some movie going gems I remembered a few moments were technology was the bane of my exsistance. Cell phones... they are amazing. I feel naked when I don't have mine on me, and find landlines pointless because of them... but then there are the people who use them when they shouldn't.

Bank backup

I went to my local TD bank (say that name fast and you'll see why I think it's a real stupid name) and I was third in line. I always go to this one so they know what I am there for, take my check, deposit it, and I'm out of there. the gentlman up at the counter had a more complex thing in mind, and decided to do it with his phone to his ear.

SC: phone guy
Me: meee
BC: bank clerk

SC: I know! and he didn't even file it blah blah blah
BC: sir I need your signature on this.
SC: and he didn't... wait what?
Bc: you're signature
SC: oh ok *as he signs* anyway! he didn't even bother to tell anyone this and there was chaos blah blah blah
BC: and your cash sir?
SC: so he... wait.. what?
BC: your cash deposit?
SC: oh yea. *hands it over* so he blah blah blah

everyone in line was getting tired of this. every question she had she had to repeat because he wasn't listening. so i snapped at one point.

BC: and your checks?
SC: blah blah .... what?
ME: get off you're damn phone you rude asshole!
SC: huh uh... *he looks around back at me... too many people to tell who it was and a couple people nodded and clapped. so he turned back to her and made one last comment to the phone* I'll call you back...

he desposited and cashed whatever it was he was doing and left. the BC laughed when it was my turn and I told her she had more patience than me.

in a movie theatre

its been done a billion times. and you'll have a few culprits to this...

1. people who don't turn off or silence their phone... it goes off... and they scramble to shut it off.
2. people who answer their phone! then tell them their in the movies.
3. people who answer their phone... and then have a long conversation.
4. people who leave their ringtone on... don't scramble to turn it off... nor do they answer it (was at a movie where this ladies phone rang 3 f'ing times!)

driving a car

we're all guilty of this at one point or another. I only do it if the road is either really straight, or very empty. but if their is traffic I ignore it until i can either put in an ear piece or put on the speaker. but I have seen people do it and nearly hit folks in the city. I can't count the amount of times I got almost hit by a car... which reminds me of one time I did...

I was on my bike, and I am very anal about following cars and keeping with the road laws. I find the more crazy cyclists get hit more, so i keep in plain site and do no such zig zagging. so I am behind a septa bus, not moving because it's a red light, and tightening my gloves before it turns green when... BUMP!... I get hit. not bad. as if someone came up to the back of my bike and kicked it with an iron boot as hard as they could.

So I turn around to see a guy in his car, on his phone, and waving a "sorry" my way... I just look at him and get off my bike to check my tire. it was ok, but I continued to give him the "wtf" expression.... I wasn't moving... the next thing infront of me was a bus... HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO HIT ME!?

yelling makes it all better

and final one that irks me is the folks who try to make calls in a building/subway they know they have no service in. so instead of waiting, they continue to call the person and they always manage to "kind of" get through. but when it breaks up... they yell... they yell really loud. listen... I don't know much about cell signals, but I know from experience with others yelling when they break up on me... it doesn't help. yelling won't make the signal suddenly go through all that metal and earth... and stop doing it so close to my head!

[HawaiianShirts]

1. people who don't turn off or silence their phone... it goes off... and they scramble to shut it off.

I've done that once. I was really embarrassed by it, too, because I did theater stuff in high school. I thought I knew better, but I guess I just forgot to silence my phone. I keep the ringer pretty low, though, and the movie was loud, so I don't think I disturbed too many people. Still, because of that, I find that one kind of movie-going-cell-phone-user acceptable, only for the scramble to shut it off. The scramble itself tells me, "Oops! Sorry, everybody!"

yelling makes it all better

and final one that irks me is the folks who try to make calls in a building/subway they know they have no service in. so instead of waiting, they continue to call the person and they always manage to "kind of" get through. but when it breaks up... they yell... they yell really loud. listen... I don't know much about cell signals, but I know from experience with others yelling when they break up on me... it doesn't help. yelling won't make the signal suddenly go through all that metal and earth... and stop doing it so close to my head!

Y'know, I've never thought much about it before, but you're right. Poor cell signals don't result in either person's voice being carried more quietly. They result in broken words and sentences. "Meet me at the car wash" becomes "Mee -- t the c -- sh." Making that louder doesn't make it any more understandable. I wonder why people think that way...

Similarly, when I did church work a few years ago, one of my partners was from Mongolia and was still learning English. I asked people to speak more slowly so he could better understand them. They agreed, and then they raised their volume. He's foreign, not deaf! I never quite understood that either.

[mikoyan29]

People who say they are in the movies and still continue to talk....loudly to boot.

[ArcticChicken]

So I turn around to see a guy in his car, on his phone, and waving a "sorry" my way...

I have a friend who keeps threatening to write a book Waving Your Hand Like That Doesn't Mean You Weren't Just an Asshole.

[greensinestro]

I'm surprised you didn't mention texting as another issue. Sure, it's not loud talking, but I've been in lines behind people who were doing it, like at the grocery store, and the cashier having to repeat things due to the customer's flying fingers on their keypad. And let's not forget the assholes that are now out there texting while they drive!

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I'm surprised you didn't mention texting as another issue. Sure, it's not loud talking, but I've been in lines behind people who were doing it, like at the grocery store, and the cashier having to repeat things due to the customer's flying fingers on their keypad. And let's not forget the assholes that are now out there texting while they drive!

I'm growing to hate the texting as much as the yapping on the phones when attempting to multi-task. I've seen people walking and texting everywhere . . . and they don't even look up to take a look at their surroundings or if they're about to walk into someone or something.

Happened at Chick-Fil-A about 3 weeks ago . . . I went in after working a half day to pick up lunch to take home and as I was leaving with a large bag and a drink carrier, this young girl almost wanders into me while texting away. Luckily she looked up at the last second or we'd have had a collison.

How she even made it into the building at lunchtime when it's insanely busy and the drive-thru line is WRAPPED around the building without getting creamed by a car heading for the drive-thru line I'll never know.

[Nohbody]

How she even made it into the building at lunchtime when it's insanely busy and the drive-thru line is WRAPPED around the building without getting creamed by a car heading for the drive-thru line I'll never know.

Lady Luck has a perverse sense of humor?

[Bloodsoul]

I've stopped counting the number of times I've nearly been runover by drivers chatting on their phone, either outside the home or at work in the parking garage. Had one that not only nearly ran me down, but had made a turn on red despite the "no turn on red" sign (granted, I can only assume such because the crosswalk had the little green guy glowing on it).

[Iced Coffee Man]

There was a news story a few weeks ago about some girl who fell down a manhole because she was texting.