Pet Peeve: Locker Room and Cell Phone Rant

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I don't generally let things get to me. Generally, I'm usually pretty mellow.
Some here know that my wife and I have been going to the YWCA. My peeve's about the locker room.
It seems that more often I'll go to my locker and there's some young fellow there with his (expletive deleted) spread out all over the bench and floor, sittin' there staring at one of those (expletive deleted) cell phones.
When I go to my locker, I get done and I split. If there's somebody else there, I move over and give him room.
 
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What really twists my wad is people that have the cell phone ear piece and carry on a loud conversation. Especially when standing in the check out lane. A guy was a couple of lanes over but I'm sure he could be heard at the back of the store. It was that loud!

Everybody around was looking at him then each other as if begging for someone to say something. If I was closer, I would have joined the guy's phone conversation just to irritate him. :D
 
Our local Y banned cell phones in the locker room last year after an incident with a voyeuristic employee. He's still working his way through the legal system, and you can't walk in the locker now with a phone in your hand. Probably wouldn't really help your problem, though. I've never been in a locker room anywhere that had enough bench space. Luckily, I'm two minutes away from the Y, so I go dressed and shower when I get home . . .
 
One night a friend and I went fishing, we fished all night and left about 7 am the next morning, we had been up for two day's without any sleep, on the way home we stopped for breakfast, a guy came in and sat at the table next to us, the first thing he did was put his phone on the table, I said to my friend, if that phone rings, i'm going to stick it where the sun don't shine, a minute later he reached over and shut it off, these people think the whole world wants to hear there conversation, when I go out to eat I always leave my phone in the truck, when I'm eating I don't want to be bothered.
 
I'm just not important enough to have my phone glued to my ear all day long and I'm too stupid to play the games it has and so very few people even have my number that the chance it's gonna ring are somewhere right up there with winning the lottery.... But the wife can reach me if she needs that all important loaf of bread or quart of milk....
 
Sorta Similar Situation:
One fine summer day I was driving the truck through town with my windows rolled down, not a care in the world. I stop at a red light and suddenly hear a string of expletives, practically shouted in my ear!


I thought what could I possibly have done? I didn't cut anyone off, or the like. I know you're not supposed to look at a road rager, but I thought I had to or get blindsided with a crushing punch.


A girl was driving, and the guy in the passenger seat was slightly turned toward her, continuing to shout a string of profanities. That actually made me feel even worse! I was raised different. I started to yell at him "You can't talk to a girl like that!"


But I noticed that she sat there calm and collected, no problem. That was when I noticed he had his left hand (concealed from my view) up to his ear. Yep, he was reading some guy the riot act from the safety of his cell phone. Tough guy for sure! :rolleyes:
 
It's an issue at our Y as well. Not unusual for a special person to sit on a weight bench, put his water bottle on the adjoining one while his fat girl friend sits on one on the other side. Both of them texting.

I'm guilty of checking my phone in the locker room after a workout, but I do keep my stuff consolidated and never make or take calls there.
 
I was in a hardware store and had picked up a box of 4' fluorescent bulbs. As I was standing in line the guy in front of me got a call while he was writing a check for his purchase. He just turned his back on the register and proceeded to talk on the phone. I stood there for awhile then slid my bulbs up on the counter accidentally shoving his abandoned check book off to the floor. I told the lady at the register, "You need to move your phone booth." He looked a little put out.

I think when some of these folks are on the phone it turns everyone around them invisible.
 
I have almost the opposite at my gym. The main problem there is the older gentlemen taking their things out of a locker, spreading them all out on a bench, walk naked to the shower, walk back naked, and have a naked conversation with their friend for 5 minutes with all of their things still spread everywhere. Usually no phones, but, like mentioned above, bench space is sparce and lockers abound. I try to be courteous, so I use two lockers because I have work uniforms and such that takes up a lot of space and I can use them for storage and only take up half of a 4 foot long bench.

I feel like I should make a disclaimer since I'm new here. I'm 37, so I'm definitely not young but not that old, either (trust me, it sounds better than it is). I agree with everything said about cell phones. Unfortunately, I'm active duty military in charge of a maintenance shop, so I don't have the luxury of leaving my phone in the car. I do, however, flip it over, see the number, and ignore it at dinner or anywhere I can whenever possible. I'd love to just not have a cell phone when I retire, but I don't know if I could just go untethered at this point.
 
bigwheelzip said:
Hubby blames cell phones for most of the world's ill's, but his pet peeve is sidewalk hogger's, who walk shoulder to shoulder expecting all they approach to clear a path.
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Even worse in a building corridors, and they stop in the middle of the corridor to have a chat blocking everyone!
 
Where I worked people would be in line at the counter to get their parts. Often when someone got to the counter their cell phone would ring and of course the customer "HAD" to answer it.
The counter salesperson just asked the next person in line what he needed. You want to be rude then back away from the counter.

What I think is so darn funny is how people say they wouldn't want to wear a hearing aid yet now people have a miniature dolphin hanging on their ear. Just proves people can be lead to do about anything. Including being rude to other people.
 
Manners. Some folks are so important and so well educated that they just don't have them. I had some arrogant Birkenstock wearing gray haired ponytail guy in John Lennon glasses try to correct me last month at an airport Immigration line. He didn't know I'd been waved through by the agent, but he got so perturbed a couple of agents asked HIM to "step out of line, sir". I hope he missed his connection. :cool:
 
Lockers at work arranged in a "U" around a six foot bench in a 6x10 area. Good for three people, four will fit. Problem is 6, 8 or 10 people rotate through at shift change. Someone always leave their folded clothes, cell phone, watch or such on the bench. If there's room I'll scooch a bit if not I'll park my sweaty, skivvie clad butt right on top.
Love the look on the face when someone asks "Where's my phone" and I dig it out.
 
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