That's just rude!

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I saw this picture at the post office today:
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Seriously? This is such a problem they had to put up a sign? If I had been so rude as to talk on the phone while conducting business with a person, my father would have drug me outside by my ear and made me understand just how rude and unacceptable this behavior was.

Understand, I have nothing against cell phones. What bothers me is how people use them.
 
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We have to have signs in the high school bathrooms that say
"Please flush"

Why is this necessary?

The one stall missing the sign is often the one found unflushed!

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I had to put up a sign at work that say's the same. People can be stupid and inconsiderate. If you walk in the door talking on your phone, you get ignored until you're done. If the conversation is loud and obnoxious I will tell the person to take it outside.

Some understand and some get mad. I don't care either way.
 
If I am talking to someone and they answer their cell phone I simply walk away. Nice day future ex-wife and I were out for a drive and she started talking to her sister on the phone after about 20 minutes I tossed her cell phone out in the sage brush.

I do not have one, feel they are rude, obnoxious and dangerous when you are horseback and someone's cell phone squawks.
 
When I retired from the telephone company, for some insane reason I thought it would be a good idea to buy a dry cleaners (it wasn't.) I came to my senses after about a year and sold it, but in that year, I learned a LOT of ways that customers can be rude. I didn't put up a sign, but when a customer would come in to drop off their clothes and just dropped them on the counter while continuing to talk on their phone, I just shoved the clothes aside and asked the next customer in line to come forward. (If their wasn't another customer waiting, I just did something else.) I wasn't trying to be obnoxious, we really did need to talk to the customer about their clothes: how they wanted them done, how much starch, when they needed them back, etc.

A few days ago, I went in to a cell phone store to buy a new phone. I was talking to a salesman and a very good looking, "hot" young lady comes in. The salesman literally stopped in mid-sentence and asks her if he could help her. Turns out that she only needed directions. Now, I know I'm not close to young, and I'm definitely not a lady of any age, and I'm certainly not hot, so in one sense I can't blame him...BUT at 65 I no longer feel like putting up with stuff like this, so when he turned back to me and started talking again, I interrupted him and told him that I didn't appreciate his rudeness one bit! He apologized profusely, but I left the store anyway and went to Best Buy, where I bought the same phone and actually saved $30.
 
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Rude and Callous People

Poor cell phone manners are legion, especially those people who think that strangers around them are actually interested in what they're saying.

There are also the people who talk too loud in restaurants,
take two parking spots or allow themselves to become grossly obese but only buy one airline seat in coach, partially sitting on those next to them.
 
If my cell should ring when I am doing business or talking to someone. I simply ignore it until the conversation is complete. If it is important they will leave a message and I can always call back.

Now if something critical is going on, like a family member that I know is in distress and may be calling, I would just say excuse me, I have been waiting for a critical call, step away and check the number, respond if necessary. But, then I would take the time to explain to the person who I had to interrupt. These circumstances are very rare as I am not a Dr or the like. The is actually very little you can ever do to fix something right away on the phone. To many people think that their phone conversations are all critical.
 
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federali said:
Poor cell phone manners are legion, especially those people who think that strangers around them are actually interested in what they're saying.

There are also the people who talk too loud in restaurants,

take two parking spots or allow themselves to become grossly obese but only buy one airline seat in coach, partially sitting on those next to them.
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Folks talking on a cell phone in a restaurant, talking loud, and
just being obnoxious to the 10th power....

I do believe the art of the whisper is forever lost.



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I've noticed signs in doctor's offices about cellphone usage. On several occasions I've been in said offices when people make and take calls. Always fun to hear someone's personal business.

Also have seen people in the checkout line talk on the phone through the entire transaction. It does make the transaction take longer.
 
If we put up signs that say, "Pull up your pants", will they work? Let's put up ones that say "Love your country", and "Obey the law".
I've seen lots of rudeness with phone behavior. I say when they are in a place that has a sign, that everyone should stare at them, and maybe act like you're listening to them.
 
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Rastoff said:
I saw this picture at the post office today:
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Seriously? This is such a problem they had to put up a sign? If I had been so rude as to talk on the phone while conducting business with a person, my father would have drug me outside by my ear and made me understand just how rude and unacceptable this behavior was.

Understand, I have nothing against cell phones. What bothers me is how people use them.
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The signs don't help. People are texting or talking and never see the sign.
You will see this on the highway at 65mph also. Love it when they change lanes into the spot I am occupying.
 
Sitting at a red light one day... the neanderthal in the jacked-up, big-tired truck next to me was holding a cell phone up to his left ear; his 10-or-so year old daughter was in the passenger seat. He was turning left and I, right.

The light was red; I heard, then saw, a big pumper fire truck coming from the left. Joe Neanderthal continued talking and looking straight ahead. The light turned green, and he hit the gas. I laid on the horn. He stopped and looked at me. I pointed to his left. The pumper was just coming into the intersection at about 40mph and would have t-boned him. Brilliant.
 
I have found that a lot of People,Mostly Women and young Girls have no concept that they are holding up a line when They are yacking on the Phone about something as trivial as where They want to have lunch.
I have had to lay on the Horn more than once because some Person is not paying attention to the Traffic Light and would sit through it if not woken up by the Horn Blast.
One I almost had a accident because some Moron just had to stop and answer Her Phone at the end of a On Ramp to the Highway.
Maybe Banks and such should have a Policy that states We will not serve You until You shut off Your Phone.
 
Walked in a restaurant restroom two weeks ago and a guy was taking a leak at a urinal while talking on the phone.:eek:

Can't help but wonder the logistics of that maneuver.

Also was really hoping he doesn't leave his phone on the table when he got back to dinner.
 
Sign in a "unisex" restroom at some dumb overpriced coffeeshop my girl towed me into ( the coffeeshop, not the restroom;) )
"Men, Please lower seat after using".
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I suggested to the management that they also, in the name of "fairness", add a sign asking women to "Please raise seat after using".

No response was the stern reply :rolleyes:
 
Maddog 521 said:
Young people have no idea what rude is. Their cellphone is THE MOST IMPORTANT thing that they have/do. Nothing even comes close to it. Everything else is unimportant.
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That and face book. Not long ago I gave my son money so he could travel and set him up with a place to stay for his eye surgery. I hear nothing from him after the surgery. Call him up a couple days later and ask. His reply was I posted all about it on facebook. Like many he thinks posting on facebook is all he needs to do to stay in touch with the world. Maybe I am the jerk because I think facebook is a waste of time and don't feel the need to open my life to everyone with a computer., but, that's the way I and many other of the senior class are.

The art and courtesy of face to face or even voice conversation is getting lost. I swear that some of the young people I see walking down the street must be texting each other instead of heaven forbid actually talking and looking at whats going on around them.

Three years ago I took a 18 year old grandson up the inside passage from Washington to Ketchican AK on a 58' seine boat. He spend the trip messing with his phone instead of looking out the window. Very disappointing. At 18 I would have died for a trip like that. Total failure at actually working at fishing, could have made some great cash, instead I spend the money to send him back home.
 
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paplinker said:
Walked in a restaurant restroom two weeks ago and a guy was taking a leak at a urinal while talking on the phone.:eek:

Can't help but wonder the logistics of that maneuver.

Also was really hoping he doesn't leave his phone on the table when he got back to dinner.
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What could possibly be that important??
 
standing in front of a urinal, doing my thing, when a guy walked into the restroom and loudly proclaimed, HELLO SWEETIE!

Now, since there was no one else there, I got a bit nervous...

That is, til I snuk a peek sideways to see him in front of his urinal, talking with his girl friend on his cell phone.

Phew, he was addressing HER and not me, when he entered the room
 
Are they expecting you to take your phone out and turn it off or just hang up?
I don't turn my phone off but I will put it on mute.
Can I expect the people working there to turn their phones off too?
 
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