Curses -- foiled again

[cellio]

Maybe I should get a cell phone. Today it would have saved me most of a trip to Squirrel Hill for an appointment that got bumped by an emergency. :-(

Comments

Re: Cell phones are *evil*

[indigodove.livejournal.com]

I think it *is* possible to have a cell phone without rudeness -- I did for years (or at least I like to think so...):-)

And, just because you have a cell phone doesn't mean it has to be on...most have free voice mail, so you can leave it off and periodically check messages.

I am contemplating getting one too -- mostly so Ralph and I can reach each other while I'm at school.

Re: Cell phones are *evil*

[goljerp]

Ok, I will accept that theoretically, one can avoid having ones manners dissapear while one owns a cellphone. Perhaps the people who I see every day being incredibly rude were that way all along, and I just don't notice the people using cellphones politely, because they're not in my face. But I'm not totally convinced about this...

Re: Cell phones are *evil*

[cellio]

Well, polite people who use cell phones unobtrusively fade out of view pretty much by definition, yes? You'd have to make a conscious effort to pay attention to everyone around you in order to tally up what proportion of users are rude about it (at least when you're watching).

Mind, I suspect that the results of such a study would be depressing. I think I'd rather not actually know...

Re: Cell phones are *evil*

[indigodove.livejournal.com]

And I will agree that there are many, many rude people with cell phones. Like my classmates (I'm in grad school) who are so important that they can't turn their phones off in class, folks who answer their phones in the library computer lab and proceed to have a conversation...it's very frustrating.