5 Ways To Cheese Off Your Fellow Planet Dwellers With A Cell Phone
What a wonderfully therapeutic topic Brad Shorr at Word Sell has provided us with… a legitimate and deliciously wicked opportunity to vent about cell phone abuse. (We call them mobile phones in Australia, but the annoyances are the same).
5 Tips For Cheesing Off Your Fellow Planet Dwellers With A Cell Phone
- Talk loudly so you don’t deprive the strangers around you of being up to date with the latest happenings in your life.
- In a restaurant, make sure you always have the cell phone on, so everyone knows you’re too important to be out of contact for even a millisecond.
- When you answer, make sure you speak loudly so that other diners know how busy and important you are.
- Take your cell phone with you when bushwalking or camping out. If you can’t have peace and quiet, why should others?
- If the bus driver has an announcement, make sure you raise your voice so that fellow passengers will know who is the most important.
Ah… that feels better. Thanks Brad. Good luck with the launch of Cell Hell: 55 Cell Phone Users You’d Like To Silence
Yvonne, How are you? Haven’t talked to you in the longest time. Thank you for venting - this has turned into a very cathartic contest. Reading your post, I wonder if we should rename mobiles “ego amplifiers”?
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Ego amplifiers… very apt. I like it. This contest is a lot of fun.
Great to see you posting again Yvonne, and this was a great way to get back into the swing.
Brad, I like “ego amplifiers”—a very accurate description for many.
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Welcome back! And great post. I would add the people who keep their Bluetooth earsets on at all times, especially during family meals, reading their kids to sleep, and sex. Then there’s the slightly less annoying (but still aggravating) placement of the phone on the dinner table. Just in case your companions didn’t know that they can be easily forgotten in the case of a ring.
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What a great way to get back into the swing of things!
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Yvonne, LOL! I feel better reading this post! It felt like my own personal little rant. I also know people so connected to their Blackberry that they never have an uninterrupted conversation with you. It is annoying when someone cannot even talk to you for 10 minutes without texting or taking a call. Grrrr!
Hi Lillie & Joanna
Yes, this was a fun challenge Brad set us.
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Hi Karen
It’s interesting that a phone call or message often seems to take precedence over a person who is actually there, and yet people are reluctant to turn off those devices. It’s ironic when it’s all about people connections.
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