Cell Phones

**Sniper** · 28th September 2005, 16:15

Originally Posted by Lou Girardin

That would be greatly satisfying.

Would it what. Except some people think they are better than us!

*sic · 28th September 2005, 17:06

cell phones make you awesome, and those around who dont agree are wrong.

**strayjuliet** · 28th September 2005, 17:15

I would be lost without my cell phone, but that being said it becomes something of a pain in the butt at times. Like when I'm wondering around the supermaket doing my shopping and next minute the phone rings so I answer it and forget half of the stuff I really needed to get in the shopping, so I end up making 2 trips to the supermaket when I could have done it all at once. If my phone hadn't botherd me.

**jrandom** · 28th September 2005, 17:18

Originally Posted by strayjuliet

I answer it and forget half of the stuff I really needed to get in the shopping...

rule number 1, learned from many hard years of arriving home and emitting loud noises of annoyance - write a shopping list.

rule number 2 I can't remember; I didn't write it down.

**ManDownUnder** · 28th September 2005, 17:28

Originally Posted by strayjuliet

I would be lost without my cell phone, but that being said it becomes something of a pain in the butt at times.

I prefer to keep mine in my pocket...

**Hitcher** · 28th September 2005, 17:30

Originally Posted by strayjuliet

I would be lost without my cell phone, but that being said it becomes something of a pain in the butt at times.

Maybe you should get one of those belt clips for it?

**Phurrball** · 28th September 2005, 17:37

Originally Posted by crashe

Nah its NOT the governments fault at all....

Its the cell phone owners fault - some have bad manners.

I was in at my local BP garage this morning and there was this man yakking on the phone right beside the petrol pump while his car was refueling...
Well its written in big bold letters to NOT use a cell phone by the petrol pumps. The attendee went over and asked him to turn it off.... cos of the garage policies... This dude said back with one finger in the air "One minute ok?" He got told 'NO turn it off" He looked at her and I thought he was gonna abuse her but instead he walked over to where the road was.... Like WTF... is he blind or what.

I hate it when you go to the movies and someone cell phone goes off...
Thats bad enough but when it rings a few times and the man answers it each time real loud.. Everyone yelled at him to get the fuck out of the cinema...

Or when in a meeting/conference...

Like there is a time and place to turn the things off.

Height of bad manners and ignorance...

Surprising how many people look at you funny when you inform them of that little fact. Used to be a regular occurrence in my petrol-pump-person days.

I wouldn't be without my phone...but it's on silent 90% of the time, and I go outside/to an appropriate place should I need to talk on it (not very often.)

**DevoDave** · 28th September 2005, 18:02

as someone once said, "I was driving to work the other day when the phone rang, I got such a fright I dropped my razor in the cereal"

**Skyryder** · 28th September 2005, 18:46

Originally Posted by Storm

I'm with you- its all those Labour bastards fault.

Me too. Just can't have the plebs poncing about like yuppies and high rollers. Just too many people rising above their station in life.

Skyryder

**Karma** · 28th September 2005, 19:41

Re: Phones in petrol garages, if we ever saw a guy talking on the phone we'd cut off his pump, then he'd look at us funny, so we'd tell him the rules... pump never went on again until he put the phone down.

Phones don't technically cause problems when fueling, only a few rare instances where someone has dropped it and the battery causes a spark, thereby sending the entire place up.

Insurance companies said that if you identified that it's a problem, no matter how small the risk, you had to eliminate it... personally I'd have thought it was more dangerous leaving the radio on when you're filling up...

**SlowHand** · 28th September 2005, 21:03

on "mythbusters" on disco channel they did a test on this. Phones causing explosions is an incredibly rare case. The static from rubbing on ur seat etc, followed by contact with gas first normally does the trick.

Scary stuff