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...
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...
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.
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Re: Cell phones are *evil*
Date: 2002-02-13 01:35 pm (UTC)Re: Cell phones are *evil*
Date: 2002-02-13 01:50 pm (UTC)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*
Date: 2002-02-13 04:15 pm (UTC)