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Originally Posted by Trisk
However, in the hands of the wrong person, cell phones give a whole new meaning to the term "annoying". I hate people who talk on their phone in the gym, in a nice resturaunt, on a bus/train, or when you are hanging out with them one on one. IMO, they need to make those cell-phone blockers (I'm not sure what these things are called, but they block the radio waves within a certain radius so that you can't get service where they put it) legal in the US, just to make things for peaceful for the rest of us.
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I hear this a lot, so when i say "you" in this, I don't mean YOU, Trisk.
So... if you and I were standing near each other on a train... and we were talking... and then some other person standing right next to us started talking to me, and I carried on a conversation with that person right there and then, that's somehow ok... but if that person is on a phone i'm talking into, you feel the need to bother yourself with paying attention to the fact i'm having a conversation that doesn't involve you? That makes no sense. And if it's because they're talking loud, then they're a loud talker or need to learn they do not need to yell into a cell phone to be heard perfectly fine. Either way, it's a quick fix on their part to not have to listen to you (again, the infinite "you") whine and bitch about something we use as a tool for communication. I like staying in touch. If I don't want to be bothered, i ignore it. Simple as that.
Oh, and i forgot to mention... if you think cell phones are mostly for the young crowd, and not marketed for professionals, then you're shopping for cell phones in 3rd-party stores... stores that already exist and just happen to also sell some cellular phone service(s). If you go to an actual store for that company, most have a decent amount of business solutions (I know about half of my company's phones are), and not just the "hip" teen stuff, although we have that too.