There's a Time and a Place!

Someone did a post about this - whether people took their cell phones into their loos with them. I am still without one but thinking maybe I should get one for emergencies. Vince has one and that's bad enough.

Whenever I hear someone having a conversation in a place like that (and yes I have often overheard conversations from the next cubicle) I'm always really tempted to join in and offer my opinion (on their choice of flooring for example!) Haven't quite had the nerve yet though.

a female passenger got on the jeepney yesterday while talking to her friend on the phone and didn't stop even when she got off. while onboard, she was also rummaging through her bag to pay her fare while talking about the job post, training, benefits, her operations that broke the bank, its effects on her weight, skin, her medications, etc. i agree about the light and dark combination!

@wordazza Don’t you just hate it when you’re on the phone with someone and you hear a chain being pulled in the background? If you ever call me, please don’t do it while enthroned.

Some years ago I was in a commuter train from Milan, Italy, to smaller towns in the north of the city. I was in a compartment for six people. Five of them shouted into their phones. It was a pandemonium. What did they tell the other side? They informed them where the train was and when they'd probably arrive (they did this trip every day) and that they'd call again when they had arrived so that the pasta could be put into the boiling water and would be ready when they arrived at their homes, etc, etc. In German trains, one also hears the occasional conversation but it's the exception. In Italy, the person who does not use his or their phone is the exception. @LadyDuck Am I exaggerating?

Good advice indeed.

Smartphones are OK but, yes, they (and other devices/technology) have their place and time. I've noticed recently that there are often a lot of people staring into their phones while walking through the busy city centre where I work. Now, I understand if they might want to make a call while walking or even send a quick text or change the music if they're listening on a phone. What I don't get is why they're staring at the phone for far longer than it takes to do any of those things. If I'm using my phone, I'll still manage to look where I'm going. My colleague has a particularly hard time as he's blind. So people who should be looking where they're going but are staring at a screen instead are constantly bumping into him. It must be very hard for him as I find it difficult to keep trying to avoid these people, especially as they seem to walk really slowly, never in a straight line, and take up the entire walkway! Saying that, it's not just people on phones who do that. I know I walk fast sometimes but I can't fathom how so many people can walk so slowly nor how a person can somehow take up a whole 12 feet of pavement. Sorry, that got a bit ranty! Have a good day.

LOL I thought I was they only one who gets mad when people use their phones in the wrong places and at the wrong times. My sons feel I am too conservative. I am glad to have read your post, I feel better already.

You might consider it this way, WorDazza... If the gentleman was in the closed stall, you were very lucky! Men here think nothing of using their cell phones while using the urinal while other men are using the urinals next to them. I always hope they aren't taking photos and posting them online or worse, keeping the photos of the well-endowed gentleman using the next urinal for uhh... his own purposes at home later! It's been a long time since I've come across your avatar on myLot. I hope you've been doing well and thinking of us kindly in the meantime.

Phones have become a nuisance for sure. My granddaughter came to visit over the weekend and all I saw was the top of her head. She was so busy on her phone I wondered why she came over.

I wouldn't want to touch his phone after he uses it, even if I were stranded and desperate!

@WorDazza haha! This was classic! Only time I cringe is when people are using a lot of swears in their conversation for the world to hear. Even in front of little children. I don't really mind people talking on their phones but I don't really like how loudly some can speak. But the thing that really gets me is how mobiles completely take over. I can not tell you how many times I've seen a group of friends or family sitting together and instead of enjoying each other's company, they are too busy looking down at their bloody phones. I don't see the point in getting together if their phones gets all the attention.

lol. Yes. Cell phones. Ugh.

Unbelievable!

Visitors coming with them in tow is what annoys me. The signal sometimes does not work indoors and they will get up and go outside to continue with their conversation leaving us high and dry.

I see so many on their phones even in areas that have signs forbidding them. When I worked for the Gov, we had signs they were not allowed on and yet, they would get angry if we asked them to step out when they answered, text'd or just thumbed through their internet. Some businesses are now posting signs if people are on their phones when being served, they will be asked to step away and not be helped. I'm tired of walking in stores, on sidewalks and other locations to be ran into from those who have their noses in their phones.

Young people see their phone as a limb. Take it away and they are broken. They will die in a world with no weefee. My bugbears are phones at the cinema and people looking at their phone as they walk along. I like to walk straight at them, just to see if they notice in time. Also, in the loo when someone suddenly says, Hello! and there's that pause as they listen to the other person respond. Are they talking to me?

lol My mother is guilty of this too. She sometimes calls me from a bathroom.

Yuck. Please don't call me from the bathroom. And never get dark laminate or hardwood no matter what colour your furniture is. Shows every speck of dust. My next floor will be dust coloured.

People drive and text, drive with one hand and they other is always on that phone, people have went crazy.