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I understand why cell phone users in a theatre or concert would be annoying but I do not understand why someone using a cellphone in a restaurant bothers anyone. People normally have conversations during meals.
What difference does it make if if you are on a cellphone and the people at tables around you can't listen to both sides of your conversation? I think it just annoys nosy people that can't hear both sides of your conversation.
For the sake of discussion, let's ignore the dumb ass ring tone that most fools have on their cell phones. Sometimes I think I've wandered back into that bar you went to in college at about 1:30a because the chicks you were with wanted to go dancing.
Regardless, it has been my experience that people who feel compelled to carry on cell phone conversations in restaurants squawk into that stinking phone like they are talking to their 87 year old half-deaf grandmother. Due to the volume, everyone in the restaurant can quickly determine the typically very, very important nature of the call.
Since we're speculating, I think these cell phone types have a desparate need to seem important and wanted. They squawk on these phones all day long because they can't stand to have a moment's quiet. If it's that bad (or if the call if really that important), they should get either get a burger from a window somewhere or walk their very important butt out of the restaurant to take their very important call.
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I understand why cell phone users in a theatre or concert would be annoying but I do not understand why someone using a cellphone in a restaurant bothers anyone. People normally have conversations during meals.
What difference does it make if if you are on a cellphone and the people at tables around you can't listen to both sides of your conversation? I think it just annoys nosy people that can't hear both sides of your conversation.
For the sake of discussion, let's ignore the dumb ass ring tone that most fools have on their cell phones. Sometimes I think I've wandered back into that bar you went to in college at about 1:30a because the chicks you were with wanted to go dancing.
Regardless, it has been my experience that people who feel compelled to carry on cell phone conversations in restaurants squawk into that stinking phone like they are talking to their 87 year old half-deaf grandmother. Due to the volume, everyone in the restaurant can quickly determine the typically very, very important nature of the call.
Since we're speculating, I think these cell phone types have a desparate need to seem important and wanted. They squawk on these phones all day long because they can't stand to have a moment's quiet. If it's that bad (or if the call if really that important), they should get either get a burger from a window somewhere or walk their very important butt out of the restaurant to take their very important call.
If its so noisy in the restaurant that they have to speak loudly in the phone I don't see how its any worse than the noise the rest of the restaurant patrons are making with their noisy talk.
As to ring tones that could be a problem but I get the feeling you wouldn't like it even if they set their phones on vibrate.
If I need to talk on the phone and I don't speak any louder than the rest of the restaurant patrons I don't see how anybody should be offended.
If I need to talk on the phone and I don't speak any louder than the rest of the restaurant patrons I don't see how anybody should be offended.
I think it boils down to what I consider to be bad manners and inappropriate behavior. If your voice isn't louder than other patrons, it probably would still annoy me because I think it's bad manners. Oddly, a screaming baby doesn't really bother me. I know that drives some people crazy.
This apparent need people have to talk on the phone constantly, and in any situtation, annoys me. I know, there are kids starving in Africa and this annoys me.
At our swim club, I see scores of parents yapping away on their cell phones (on a Saturday mind you) while they are there with their kids. They aren't making any more noise than the screaming kids, but it annoys me.
I understand some people have a business need to be available at all times, believe me. I just think there are times and places that you shouldn't talk on your cell phone. Sitting in a restaurant is one of them.
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Do you guys really find it necessary to overhear what everyone around you in a reataurant is saying?
I think it just bothers you that you cannot hear both sides of the conversation. That is nosy and rude.
I will talk (in normal tones) on my cell phone in a resaturant when I feel like it. If you are paying that much attention to my personal conversations.... tough.
I don't think anyone losing sleep over someone else's bad manners. Some people don't understand that it's polite to say thank you, hold the door for a lady or use sir or ma'am when appropriate. It's a shame really, but what can you do.
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I don't think anyone losing sleep over someone else's bad manners. Some people don't understand that it's polite to say thank you, hold the door for a lady or use sir or ma'am when appropriate. It's a shame really, but what can you do.
I am very polite. My old southern grandmother was very picky about manners. I just do not see how talking in normal tones on a cellphone in a restaurant is in any way impolite.
Have you looked into the new home cell towers? some work over a basic phone line and some over broadband internet connections but allows you to use your cell phone in your home and does not count against your minutes. Although new to the market, it does seem like a good option especially if you already pay for broadband internet access.
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I think poorly supervised children are MUCH more of a problem.
Parents who can not keep their kids quiet and seated in a nice
restaurant infringe on the experience of others.
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I don't think anyone losing sleep over someone else's bad manners. Some people don't understand that it's polite to say thank you, hold the door for a lady or use sir or ma'am when appropriate. It's a shame really, but what can you do.
I am very polite. My old southern grandmother was very picky about manners. I just do not see how talking in normal tones on a cellphone in a restaurant is in any way impolite.
It is supposed to be a dining room, not a boiler room.
Do you always enjoy listening to the diners at other tables private conversations?
Do you always enjoy listening to the diners at other tables private conversations?
Given some of the explanations you have received, why do you think this has anything to do with the content of your private, as you call it, conversation?
__________________ "You have to, everyone is."
"That's why I don't want to."
I think poorly supervised children are MUCH more of a problem.
Parents who can not keep their kids quiet and seated in a nice
restaurant infringe on the experience of others.
I couldn't agree more. I'd purposely go to a "no children allowed" restaurant, but I'm not sure a "no cell phones allowed" version would have any particular draw for me whatsoever.
The problem with screaming children is that often the parents have learned to not even hear the oral assault that is going on to anyone within earshot. Everyone elses ears are bleeding, while the parents yell over the little bundle of joy's blood curdling screams in an attempt to have a normal conversation.
And before anyone says it...I'm sure it's not your child. It's never your child.
I think poorly supervised children are MUCH more of a problem.
Parents who can not keep their kids quiet and seated in a nice
restaurant infringe on the experience of others.
I couldn't agree more. I'd purposely go to a "no children allowed" restaurant, but I'm not sure a "no cell phones allowed" version would have any particular draw for me whatsoever.
The problem with screaming children is that often the parents have learned to not even hear the oral assault that is going on to anyone within earshot. Everyone elses ears are bleeding, while the parents yell over the little bundle of joy's blood curdling screams in an attempt to have a normal conversation.
And before anyone says it...I'm sure it's not your child. It's never your child.
It's not your child.
__________________ "You have to, everyone is."
"That's why I don't want to."
Do you always enjoy listening to the diners at other tables private conversations?
Given some of the explanations you have received, why do you think this has anything to do with the content of your private, as you call it, conversation?
How could you tell I was having a cell phone conversation at the next table ?
Do you always enjoy listening to the diners at other tables private conversations?
Given some of the explanations you have received, why do you think this has anything to do with the content of your private, as you call it, conversation?
How could you tell I was having a cell phone conversation at the next table ?
Again, I don't care if you're at the next table or across the restaurant. However, could it be the cell phone stuck to your ear? What about this is difficult for you to understand? Some people think yapping on a cell phone in a restaurant is bad manners, inappropriate and otherwise just plain foolish. Some people, including yourself, don't. Just don't fool yourself into think anyone cares what you are yapping about.
__________________ "You have to, everyone is."
"That's why I don't want to."
Do you always enjoy listening to the diners at other tables private conversations?
Given some of the explanations you have received, why do you think this has anything to do with the content of your private, as you call it, conversation?
How could you tell I was having a cell phone conversation at the next table ?
Again, I don't care if you're at the next table or across the restaurant. However, could it be the cell phone stuck to your ear? What about this is difficult for you to understand? Some people think yapping on a cell phone in a restaurant is bad manners, inappropriate and otherwise just plain foolish. Some people, including yourself, don't. Just don't fool yourself into think anyone cares what you are yapping about.
How could it possibly bother anyone if I am sitting at the next table talking on a cell phone in normal conversational tones?
If you weren't being nosy about the people at the next table you would not notice if they were on a cellphone or not.
If people are talking to loud it doesn't matter if they are on a cellphone or not, that is rude.
If I am at the next table using my Bluetooth headset or holding the phone to my head it could not bother anyone but a boorish nosy asshole.
Lighten up Francis. I think it's tacky, rude and inappropriate to talk on a cell phone (much less your super cool Bluetooth headset - that's laughable in an entirely different thread way) in a restaurant. If you can calm down and process the three or so times I've said it, I don't care where you are sitting or what your are saying. Your cute little theory is debunked. If you yap on your phone in a restaurant, I think you're silly. Tough.
__________________ "You have to, everyone is."
"That's why I don't want to."
You must be obsessed with what others are doing around you. It none of your business if someone talks on a cellphone in a restaurant you happen to be in.
Re: How many do not have home phones anymore? 
