There need to be Cell Phone booths ASAP
@lookatdesktop (27156)
Dallas, Texas
December 22, 2016 3:11pm CST
The desire to talk is a human impulse.
But talking to that other person on the cell phone is bothersome to many around you because they keep hearing this one-sided conversation between that person with the phone in hand or bluetooth on the ear and wonder what is the other person saying?
This and the fact that a shared public place is being used as cell phone users' private domain that literally turns the public place into a crowded private place and it is irritating for a reason. Nobody likes to listen to jabber jabber by strangers talking to other strangers when trying to just think their own thoughts but are being overtaken by the sound of a loud mouth cell phone addict.
Read this article below and you will get what I am saying, I mean, texting. lol
From Observer online:
Cellboors everywhere are doing unarmed takeovers of the restaurant environment with their hee-hawing into their phones — effectively privatizing a shared space and hijacking the attention of …
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@lookatdesktop (27156)
• Dallas, Texas
23 Dec 16
That sounds like talk therapy might be the best thing for that person. lol but by a psychiatrist, not his inner voice. lol
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
23 Dec 16
@lookatdesktop I mean when they put the phone on speaker and they all yell. A woman next door used to sit under my window with the phone on speaker. I had to turn the TV on loud to drown it out.
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.@lookatdesktop (27156)
• Dallas, Texas
23 Dec 16
Very clever. How I wish I still had my old trusty CB radio. lol
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@snowy22315 (209143)
• United States
23 Dec 16
Yes, I like the idea of cellphone booths.
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@lookatdesktop (27156)
• Dallas, Texas
23 Dec 16
It in fact is. The public transportation people should designate the rear end two pairs of seats exclusively for jabber jabber Cell Phone Zombies.
@LeaPea2417 (40058)
• Toccoa, Georgia
23 Dec 16
That would be a good idea to bring those back.
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@moffittjc (128840)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Dec 16
They should not only bring back phone booths, but also pass a law that gives citizens the right to yank a cell phone out of someone's hand and throw it in the nearest body of water, if the person is yacking away too loudly on their phone.
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@RasmaSandra (98106)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
22 Dec 16
There are so many times that I think it sounds and looks absolutely silly seeing a person walking down the street seemingly talking to themselves but they are talking to someone on the phone.
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