10 Things I hate about YOUR cell phone
We all know how popular cell phones are, I mean look at the line ups whenever Apple releases its latest version of the iPhone. Or just look around you… everyone has one.
And it's easy to see why. Cell phones let us stay connected to our friends and family. They have all sorts of neat features, like calendars and notes to keep us organized. We can check our email, or use Google maps when we're lost, and we can even play a game or two while we're waiting for our appointments.
Face it, we love OUR phones.
What we don't love, however, is anyone else's phone.
In fact, what we have is an all-out, perpetual grudge against other people's cell phones. What makes us hate them so much? I wandered around asking people this question and here is a list of the top ten cell phone behaviours that drive us up the wall:
1. Drivers who obliviously swerve into our lanes, while happily chatting on their cells. – Illegal or not, they're still doing it.
2. Diners who text while eating out with us. — Yes, we can see the light streaming from the screen, even when they hide their phones on their laps, just under their napkins.
3. Loud talkers who carry on long, tedious, one-sided conversations on their phones right behind us on crowded buses.
4. Shoppers who call home for help when making the simplest decisions. – We've all seen them blocking the aisle at the grocery store, hand to ear, while they make their emergency call home to ask if they need more Hamburger Helper.
5. Fast food eaters who stand in front of us at McDonald's but when it's finally their turn are too busy talking on their phone to actually place their order.
6. Cell phone users who have all-out, no holds barred, emotional outbursts in public.— Most likely,if they're a guy, they sit right behind us on the bus and scream things like, "That's not my fault, you @%$#@!!." Or if they're a woman, they stand in line at the bank and sob hysterically into their phone, "Why does this always happen to me?"
7. Movie goers who turn on their phones in the theatre so that their screens shine brighter than a lighthouse on a dark November night.
8. Distracted walkers who bump into us while they're walking because they're too busy texting to see what's right in front of them.
9. Phones that beep every thirty seconds with incoming texts until the cell phone user starts to sound like a defective carbon monoxide detector.
10. And worse of all… Bluetooth users who make it impossible to tell the crazy from the sane. — Before when someone was carrying on a conversation with himself as he walked down Yonge Street, we thought, "Okay, this guy needs some room," and we moved aside. Now, we just assume the person is talking to someone through their Bluetooth device…but are they really?
Seriously, we'd never do any of those things with OUR phone. Right?
9 thoughts on “10 Things I hate about YOUR cell phone”
I love this post!! Made me laugh! So very, very true! I would add (along the same lines as #6) highly personal calls with details you don’t want to hear (like discussing details about their health that the average person shouldn’t hear).
So true! There was a lady at Sobey’s yesterday apparen’tly attending a conference call on her phone — really loudly. “OH, I DON’T HAVE TWELVE SILVER? USE SIX WHITE AND SIX SILVER THEN! … CAN YOU TAKE CARE OF THAT? THANKS!” Do you think she was paying proper attention to her shopping OR to her call? No!
If you are so busy with work you can’t even find time to grocery shop, either you need to hire someone or get less busy. It’s the scourge of constant availability.
I’m always amused when I see some guy in the grocery store, on the cell phone, obviously not having any idea what kind of detergent or cereal his wife asked him to pick up. Oh, well, at least it’s better than the old days, when the wife would end up saying “Why did you buy that brand???”
Also annoying is having your dinner companion answer his/her cell while you’re trying to have a conversation.
Too bad they don’t hand out etiquette guidelines with each cell phone purchase!
Add to that cell phones that meow like cats or crow like roosters–anything that doesn’t sound like a phone. I was working in a library once and the tranquility was shattered by a man’s phone playing Jingle Bells. It went on and on because he didn’t realize it was his phone.
This is a great blog. Reporting on Thing #6: I was waiting in line to get a GO Train ticket and this woman in front of me was breaking up with her boyfriend. She spent a good 10 minutes yelling at him while she waited in line, paid for the ticket, and stood by the ticket kiosk continuing her foul tirade in front of us. This happened a couple of years ago but I still remember what she looked like and what she wore that day.
I laughed as well. Point number 8 concerning the distracted texters rings especially true for me as I’ve been plowed into by such a beast. No apology just an exasperated sigh as they had to retype.
Just wanted to add–she was screaming at him through the phone. I have no idea how the poor fella on the other end is taking it but he stayed on the line while she tore strips off him.
Hello,
No doubt the cell phone is one of the fastest communication devices for the people of all over the World. But still I am agree with these 10 demerits of cell phone which you tell us at your article.
Hello,
Like Cell phone, everything in this world has merits and demerits. But we should concentrate on its positive use.