Cell Phone annoyance...

[Patriotic Kaz]

OK I am starting a thread about people who abuse cell phones (texting in class, too loud ring tone, inappropriate ring tone, whatever the problem is) list your complaints below....

Ex. a person from Detroit was speaking far too loudly to his buddy telling him how he misses it so much and that Dallas is a bunch of dolts and can't even make chili fires (what an idiot he probably likes bad chili and chili is the state food of Texas of course we make good stuff i don't eat chili fries so he might have a small point) anyways he proceeds to call us more or less dumb hicks like W. and the funny thing was his grammar was pitiful!

[ryos]

Look at it this way: cell phones have made it that much easier for you to detect idiocy at a distance. Hooray cell phones!

[Miyabi]

I used to always text in class when I was in high school.  My teachers never said anything about it though, because they could ask me a question at any given time and I was able to answer without having to have the question repeated or what-not

[benvolio3]

I've always been disapproving of cell phone use during school hours. Granted, I've used my phone to text once or twice or three times this year, but I really try to refrain. But what really gets me upset is when people are text-ing instead of paying attention to the real world! Your text can wait!!! well... that's my stand on text-ing.

besides, I would probably text more and be less hostile towards text-ers if I had a higher monthly message allotment, because at the moment I only have around 150...


@ Champion Kaz: I like how you talk about that Dallas kids horrible grammar while you make your whole second paragraph a run-on... just saying. 

[Miyabi]

I would die.  I easily send 300 in a day.

[kevinpii]

Last fall I was driving behind a guy who was texting while riding his goldwing right downtown. I mean come on, texting while driving is bad, texting while riding your motorcycle down a busy street is just stupid.

[Eerongal]

I used to always text in class when I was in high school.  My teachers never said anything about it though, because they could ask me a question at any given time and I was able to answer without having to have the question repeated or what-not

replace "text" with "Sleep" and you have what *I* did in highschool. one of my teachers commented on it before, he asked how i could be sleeping, but as soon as he asks a question, pop up, give the answer, then lie back down. My reply was "Because I know the answer"

Last fall I was driving behind a guy who was texting while riding his goldwing right downtown. I mean come on, texting while driving is bad, texting while riding your motorcycle down a busy street is just stupid.

i saw someone driving down the road texting before. She had *BOTH* hands off the wheel, and was driving with her elbows on the wheel, and was leaning her face and phone against the window to be steady and type (i assume). It looked like the most dangerous thing i had ever seen someone do while driving

[Patriotic Kaz]

@benvolio i speak somewhat differently than i type and he isn't a dallasite i am...run-ons don't really bother me either but using me instead of I or vice versa or are instead of is and vice versa annoys me...

[Miyabi]

@Eerongal.  I could only do that in a few classes.

[The Jade Knight]

I just told my students about how one teacher would drop cell phones used in class in a fishbowl filled with water.  That helped to keep them in line...

Anyway, I'd just like to say "Tractors is so dumb."

[Patriotic Kaz]

@Jade nice one...

[benvolio3]

@ Kaz: alright, fair enough...
But I'm a comma freak, meaning, I'd rather see an overextensive use of commas than see no comma use at all. I guess grammer is turning into a subjective thing these days...

Oh... and I meant Detroit, of course. 

@ everyone else: I'm saddened, my phone got a crack in the screen the other day... 

[Eerongal]

@Anyone: I just wanna be cool and use the @ symbol like everyone else.
also, interesting link my friend sent me about a cell phone
http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/04/16/kyocera-unveils-kinetic-flexible-oled-cell-phone/

[readerMom]

I used to think it was really funny and pathetic to see all the people in the grocery stores (especially men) calling home to see what kind of cereal to get.  Until I got a cell phone and my husband does it every time he goes.  I have even done it.  That easy and immediate access to information is irresistible.

[benvolio3]

At the speed in which industrialization and technology (flattening) is moving these days I think the cellphone is a most necessary thing one might have. Twenty years ago it might have been accepted to guess and check, but these days guessing is so... unnecessary.

total tangent: Can you imagine twenty years ago is almost the 90's?