Help me here - - cells, pagers - totally accessible - yet no answers!

No rambling - you are right! Everyone has one so everyone has to have one! I have one cause my daughter got me one and put me on her plan cause I have her child often and she wanted me to have it for emergencies, but as needed too. I have had it ring while I was doing something and didn't answer it and people look at me and say "aren't you going to answer that?" I's say "No, I'm busy right now, I'll call them back".... I do that as I REALLY hate to be dealing with someone and they STOP dealing with me to answer their phone which means dealing with someone else while I was not only there first, but am standing waiting and wasting my time waiting on them to talk to someone else!!! I"ve been trying to get ahold of someone - called and left msg at home phone, cell and work phone....still haven't called me back!

Having a cell phone does not override good manners. It is quite irritating for me when I see people talking and then the cell rings and they pick up the call. Excuse me? Unless it's an emergency or a very important call there is no way someone should do that. Heck I see kids talking and then their cells ring and both are on the cells talking away for a long time and this seems acceptable. Marketing/consumerism at it's best. First they picked on a perfectly sensible product that was to be used for special reasons - an emergency, to be able to make/receive a call where no phone was available, to be able to make a quick call to someone to ask for directions or something, etc. Then they turned it into a must for everyone - it isn't, really. They went further and turned it into a social and status tool. " you're not cool, if you dont' have one" ANd they kept making it more and more ludicrous: music player, camera, game player,downloadable ring tones email, internet, tv..... is this really needed on a..... phone? I am not against technology. I am not close minded. I am not against progress. I just view things clearly, and clearly they're making cell phones an essential gadget in people's lives for their own profit and people can't seem to see it. They're blinded by features :):) My son downloaded a ring tone by mistake - he says LOL - it's was about $3. But do people need their phones to announce a call with some crazy music? Doesn't ring-ring work? Isn't that what phones do? People are getting tricked into all this stuff and they don't even notice how much they're paying for these -non-essential things. Am I rambling again????? LOL

You're singing my song! I agree with you whole heartedly! I was in the bank the other day - long line, 2 tellers, and this guy gets up to the teller and his phone rings - loudly with a song screaming something or another. He answers it and as I watch I see the teller waiting on him to finish she she can ask him a question, he tells the perons "hold on" and talks to the teller, back to his cell and then I see the teller holding the money shewas giving to him, waiting for him to stop talking and pay attention while she counts out the money like they are required to do. So here I am waiting in line amongst many others, while this guy is yaking on the phone instead of taking care of business. I hate the most.

Yeah, I know what you are saying. If I am doing something and my cell rings, I don't answer it until I am done - I mean, I am busy right now, I have business to attend to - catch ya later. There have been times that I was doing something with another person involved, like at the bank or talking to someone - and it rang and I let it ring and that person asked me "aren't you going to answer it?" I said, "are we done here?", they'd say "no", and I'd say "then I am not going to answer it - I am busy". They looked at me like a calf looking at a new fence! Ther is just simply a time and place for everything. I particularly HATE it when the person in front of me stops what they are doing to yak on the phone nad that makes me have to stand and wait till they are done with their call and then finish their "in line" business. This happens at cash registers and in the bank line all the time!