I was reading the gas pump/ cell phone thread and was wondering does wanyone else think that talking on cell phones in public is rude?

I don't mean, calling home for a quick, " what did you need at the store" or " can you see how much toilet paper we have" sort of call, but more like the person you passed in every aisle at Shoprite and they talked the entire time on their phone? I was at the store today and I felt like I was intruding on a women on her phone, she got all quiet when I came around the corner. I feel like that is just rude of her to expect privacy while I am trying to shop.


What do you think?

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I think it's weird to be on a cell phone for a long length of time while shopping. Also dislike cell phones ringing while in a restaurant. I cannot stand when people are on the cell phone in their cars and are unable to keep the vehicle under control (in their lane). I only use the cell phone for emergency use, or for directions if I'm lost.

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I have problems when people are wearing a wireless headset, and are going back forth, talking on the phone and talking to you.....it gets to complicated! I don't think it's necessarily rude to be on a phone in public, but if you are in public, then you shouldn't be expecting privacy......

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I was in line behind a lady on her cell phone - she was being waited on at a coffee shop. She was talking on her phone, and my DD asked me a loud question, and I automatically tried to quiet my DD, so that the lady could hear her caller.

HELLO!!! I immediately realized the error of my ways - my DD wasn't the one who should have been shushed, it was the cell phone lady, taking a call while she was being waited on at the front of the line who could have used a shush-ing.

I wanted to take it back, but what do you do? Say to DD: "Oh - DD, I just realized that actually YOU have the right to talk freely, SHE is the one who should find a more appropriate place to have her phone one-on-one time."

Next time I'll be ready...

It is annoying I think. I have a friend who calls me constantly when she is out, maybe she is bored, I don't know...but she calls when she is in the car running to the store, and then keeps me on the phone while she is shopping. I know when I am in the store and someone is on the phone, I am just amazed that they can do so many things at once!

Me, I cannot concentrate on talking and shopping. When I get to the store, I have to get off, cause I don't personally like to "chit chat" on the phone and shop at the same time, or should I say, I just can't do it. I would rather wait until I can concentrate on what my caller is saying, than try to concentrate on them, and get done shopping.

I do think it's rude though, when they are trying to check out, and continue their conversation and not pay attention, and is holding up the line.

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I personally love it when, at our local stores, if you are on your cell phone they won't talk to you or interact with you in anyway other than to ring up your purchases.. if you are on your cell and then notice they didn't give you a total they will only point at the regirster, not saying anything. At first there was only one store doing that but now there are at least 5.. and there is a note on the front doors stating if you are engaged in a cell phone conversation you will not be interrupted by our services and will only be pointed to. I LOVE that!

The Dunkin Donuts near me has a sign at the register to refrain from cell phone use at their counter.

If it's not interfering with other people (as it would in a check-out line sometimes), I don't see what the big deal is. IMO, it's not any different from talking with a friend as you walk down the aisles. Just not a big deal.

Devinsmom, the lady didn't ask you to quiet your daughter, did she? That would be rude. If not, though, I don't think she was doing anything wrong, any more than your daughter was.

I was in line the other day at the bank and a lady was talking on the cell phone and made the teller wait until she was done with her call! The teller should have had her step aside and waited on the people who were ready! Instead we all listen to her talk to her friend about her car problems...rude!

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I have problems with the girl who was on the cell phone while using the bathroom. Ummm, hello! I am in there too. I really wanted to say something but decided to just let it go.

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i find it very rude except for incidental and emergency use. Sometimes it even startles me for a moment when I think I'm just with another person somewhere and they start talking.....I'm like "are you talking to me?" until I see the headset...

Two experiences that blow my mind:

1 - Boston Logan airport. Father putting his daughter on a plane to return to her mother was at the gate attending a minor. Talked on the phone the whole time including handing her over to the flight attendant and giving a quick kiss goodbye. The look on the girl's face was just so sad....

2 - Cedar Point Amusement park waiting in line for a coaster ride. Not one, but many instances of teenagers and young adults there with either family or friends as groups and still talking on the phone the whole time to other people. How disrespectful is that!

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If just walking down the isle that's fine, if paying or in a resturant then yes they should stop the call and call them back

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Wow, Flipper you must have been reading my mind. I was at the ShopRite on Sunday and turned the corner to go down the soup aisle and nearly crashed into a woman who was having a screaming match on hers. I could actually hear the other person yelling! She stood her ground and looked at me as if I were intruding. Umm, scuse me, this is a public place. I said to her, "pardon me, can I get around you?" She replied with "can't you see I'm on the phone?" So I said, "tell him I said hi and get out of my way."

What is it with people and their selfish ways? When did people suddenly get these feelings of grandeur and entitlement? Drives me nuts and I don't even own a cell phone.

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At times the conversations I hear are very rude. There is a woman on the bus each morning talking in that "street" style to her man. Hey if I'm not at home with my man I don't want to hear that conversation at 6:45 am.

Phones ringing in a restaurant very rude.

Saturday my son took me to run soem errands and someone was texting him the whole time. My reply was "Hello its Mommy time leave us alone!"

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I cannot stand it. On my 9 yr old's bus, rather than have convesations, the kids are texting each other! She and one of her friends, neither of whom has a phone, feel pretty left out. It is ridiculous. (But she's not getting one!) It is terrible to see parents talking on the phone while their children trail after them.

I don't want to hear about Aunt Sally's colonoscopy results, how much of an a**hole Barb's husband is, why you can't make Thursday's meeting in Albany, or how funny it was when little Johnny chased the kittycat. I just want to pay for my pack of gum.

I can't stand the ones that are just on the phone for just talking. If it is important or business I try to have more patience.
DH is on call on some weekends. So he has to have his cell phone and pager with him at all times if we go out. So sometimes it does ring in restaurants/stores but he trys to go keep it short until he can go elsewhere and talk. He has to answer it..because some people do not leave a message. with a telephone number included and if they are calling from the mill it only shows the main number not the individual's office number.

[quote=nanci39;2893182]So I said, "tell him I said hi and get out of my way."

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I was with my dd the other day in Kohls and when she was trying on clothes, there were 2 people in the dressing rooms on the phone. Each talking in a loud normal voice. I was trying to talk to my dd and kept having to repeat myself because she couldn't hear me!

I can't stand the people walking around with the ear phones in (DH & I call them "butt phones"). We used to live next to a neighbor who ALWAYS has his in. He is so arrogant and just acted as though he was so important that he must always be available.

I've been out to dinner before and have seen parents with their kids, but the parents are on the phone. I always think they've made the effort to eat dinner out with their kid, they should be talking to them - not someone on the phone.

Lisa

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I hate it. It is different than two friends talking together in person. People on cell phones use a much louder and intrusive voice. If you need to talk on a cell phone in public, go to a semi-private place, like outside a store and away from the entrance. If you need to talk while in the car, pull over.

My brother used to call me on his cell phone while he was driving home from work. He had a long drive and it was just a means to pass the time, I guess. After a couple minutes, I'd keep asking, "what?" and tell him he was breaking up. If he kept talking anyway, I'd just hang up. Yup - I'm passive-aggressive that way.

Is a friend gets a "call waiting" click while we're talking and puts me on hold for longer than it should take for someone to say, "I'll call you back, I'm talking to someone else," I just hang up.

Can you tell I'm not a huge phone fan?

LOLOLOL!!

I think my words would have been a bit more...ummm...four-letterish... ...but I would have said something too.

I'm so sick of people having LONG conversations on their phones while in a check out line, perusing aisles, whatever. It takes them a lot longer to get anything done which interferes with others around them and it's SELFISH. It's called "out in public" for a reason!

I can't imagine being on the phone while dealing with a cashier at ANY store. I know not every cashier is personable or even nice, but me being rude on top of it would make me a jerk, too.

I don't know...seems like more and more of the world is so self-absorbed and the heck with everyone else.

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I think it's quite rude, actually. It's one thing to be quiet and discreet about it, but, the ones who are loud and oblivious to everyone and everything around them...UH, don't like that at all. I've had to tap people on the shoulder to get their attention while they were on the phone in the store, and in my way. I carry my phone with me all the time, in case the kids need me, or family members need me, but, I about DIE when it rings in public. When I go in to an establishment that says "no cell phones" or I don't want it to go off, I'll turn it off and on periodically to see if anyone called.

I like the idea of outlawing it while driving....or making it that you need to be "hands-free" although, I have to say, in NJ I saw more people with the phone to their ear while driving than I care to remember. People just don't seem to care, sadly.

Another peeve of mine is people who don't say excuse me when they want to get by in the store, and just stand there, like you are a mind reader.

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What I can't stand is when you are out anywhere and you see someone talking on the phone and not to the people they are with. Why go out with someone if you are going to ignore them and talk on your phone the whole time.

LOL! I love it!

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me and the hubby was at very nice restruant for our ann. and there was a man there with his 3 kids what was sitting at our table also. ( they fill up the table before they start cooking on the grill that is in the middle of the table) anyways, this jerk was either texting or talking on his cell the whole time. we over heard him tell whoever he was talking to that he had the kids for a few hrs and had taken them to kobe's cause kids eat free. while he was totally ignoring his kids, his son was licking the tops of all the salt shakers he could reach. finally the chef took all the shakers off the end of the table that they were at. Then the dad said soemthing to whoever he was talking to about the chef taking them and the chef told him to get off the phone and watch his children . didnt do any good. he stopped talking but then started texting. Never did he pay those kids any attention. The little girl didnt eat much and he never noticed until it was time for the table to be cleared.

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I know I am in the minority here but I am just not a phone person at all. Friends are amazed at my ability to ignore a ringing phone.
Yes I have an electronic leash(cell phone) but I really feel it is for my convienence, no one else's.
I have seen people become "cell stalkers". They get irrate if you don't answer your cell. How dare you not take their call.

Also I have been having dinner with friends and they just have to answer that phone. And carry on a non emergency conversation. Boy that really makes me feel like they care about my company.
And some of the conversations I have been forced to overhear in public were just bizarre.

I think manners would go a long way toward cell phone use being ok with me, but as we know manners aren't all that common any more.

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If someone is on the phone in the bathroom, I will continually flush the toilet until they shutup.
If someone is talking loudly while shopping, I will talk loudly with my friends about something equally disgusting. This is pure common courtesy. I have heard them ring in movies. I have heard them ring at funerals. Unless it is an extreme emergency that phone should be off in those 2 places. Somehow we managed to survive fine without being "oncall" 24-7. Marriages survived, kids lived. I don't want to know what illness your cat has, who is sleeping with the boss or what is for dinner. Some people can't drive well when they have total concentration. Now they are trying to do it while talking on the phone. We are setting examples for our kids. Do you really feel your kid is driving safe while talking/texting at 55 mph? They see us do it , it must be okay. America really needs to hang up

That's a good one!

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A young couple was next to us in a restaurant last week. It looked like they were on a date. The girl sat there and texted on her cell phone the whole time while her date sat there and watched her. They never talked to each other.

I work in a pharmacy and it amazes me with the amount of people that think it is horrible for me to interrupt them to make sure I ring up the right person's rx, make sure they do not have allergies to any medications and just plain awful to ask them what their address is if they are picking up an rx while they are on the phone.

I absolutely hate the part when they are in the drive-thru and they hold their hand up to me to signal that they will be one minute. EXCUSE ME??? You are in MY drive thru with people behind you waiting to get rx's filled and you want me to wait on YOU??? I just walk away and tell them to ring the bell when they are finished or I continually ask them question after question until they get the hint. I especially like the latter b/c that really ticks them off. I will ask every possible question just to make them mad.

I was at the post office yesterday, and they also have a sign up indicating that they will gladly wait on you when you are finished with your phone call.

One of the only times I've ever started a thread that got locked on this very forum was about, oh, 5 or 6 years ago I posted about cell phone use. During a school function where my son, elementary age, was participating in an award ceremony. When they were announcing a child's name, as the child walked up to get his award, it was quiet then suddenly, a cell phone rang and a parent answered, got up and walked through the auditorium and you could hear her saying "oh Im over here on xxx highway, what are you up to?" It absolutely burned me up, everyone was looking to see who it was, it was one of the rudest things I've ever seen. And when I posted that people need to use a little cell phone etiquette there were a few people who said it was there right to carry a cell phone, and if someone wanted to get in touch with them it was their right regardless of where they were.

My problem then, and it's the same now, is if you are so important that you can't get through a 45 minute ceremony for fifth graders without taking a phone call, then stay home.

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