The Battle for Silence and I have become an old man

I am proud to say I am a number 1 and seeing me talk on my cell or any phone for that matter is about as common as seeing a midget ride a llama in your back yard. Although I am a bit of a text whore but that’s cool right?

[quote comment="1328"]I am proud to say I am a number 1 and seeing me talk on my cell or any phone for that matter is about as common as seeing a midget ride a llama in your back yard. Although I am a bit of a text whore but that’s cool right?[/quote]

the texting or the whore the part?

She deserved it. I hate when people go somewhere and act like they own the place. I’m more of a conscientious user. Or at least i try to be…

my cell stays on vibrate 24/7. i do more texting on my cell then talking. you should have choke the bitch lol

everyone thinks they are a number 1, but most people are a number 2. my biggest peeve is people driving shitty because they are on the phone. i will pick up the phone while driving to find out if it’s important. if it’s not, i fucking hang up. what did these people do before they had cell phones? my car is my sanctuary where i can relax with my thoughts, or rock out to my music. i do not need to be in constant contact with people to feel okay.

I consider myself a #1. However like Tarah, I am texting obsessed. I have been told it is rude to be hanging out with one person and secretly texting another under the table. Who knew?

I rarely answer my cell in public.Unless it’s my kids school that’s calling then I go outside away from people. It’s rude and tasteless to go anywhere, shopping, restuarant, any place and talk on your phone the entire time. No one really cares, people!!

I am #1. Without question. I even turn my phone off when my friends come over to watch the OU game. Much applause needed for “classless bitch”. I would have gone overboard. Wait, did you say a library? Oh, I live in Oklahoma, we don’t frequent those places.

I hardly use my cell phone and forget to charge it most of the time, so I guess I would be type number one.

Yes, you are now and old man. How does it feel Grandpa?

[quote comment="1331"]my cell stays on vibrate 24/7. i do more texting on my cell then talking. you should have choke the bitch lol[/quote]

women like the vibrate

I rarely use a cellphone. No one calls me…lol Great Blog Kevin. I would have done the same but much louder.

[quote comment="1332"]everyone thinks they are a number 1, but most people are a number 2. my biggest peeve is people driving shitty because they are on the phone. i will pick up the phone while driving to find out if it’s important. if it’s not, i fucking hang up. what did these people do before they had cell phones? my car is my sanctuary where i can relax with my thoughts, or rock out to my music. i do not need to be in constant contact with people to feel okay.[/quote]

I agree with ya. I get the women who are talking on their phone, reading their mail, doing their hair and make-up all while driving 80 mph down the interstate.

I feel your pain Kevin…..I found myself yelling at my 14 y/o daughter the other day to “Turn that crap DOWN!! What the Hell is that…how can you listen to that garbage??!!In my defense it WAS Kenny Chesney…what have I spawned?! But I felt just like my mother..it was horrible.

[quote comment="1336"]I hardly use my cell phone and forget to charge it most of the time, so I guess I would be type number one.

Yes, you are now and old man. How does it feel Grandpa?[/quote]

want to change my depends?

I also forgot to mention that nobody calls me anyways, so it’s a moot point.

[quote comment="1330"]She deserved it. I hate when people go somewhere and act like they own the place. I’m more of a conscientious user. Or at least i try to be…[/quote]

that bitch did deserve it… Power to the people

[quote comment="1341"][quote comment="1336"]I hardly use my cell phone and forget to charge it most of the time, so I guess I would be type number one.

Yes, you are now and old man. How does it feel Grandpa?[/quote]

want to change my depends?[/quote]

Uhhh, did you do number one or number two?

Classic Kevin moment .. 45-year old man? well that kinda sounded like an 75 year-old woman … either way, you were right, no matter where one is, there has to be some freaking respect … at a movie theater there was these annoying 16 year olds with their cell phones telling their friends about the movie Hostel and how gross it was. Argh, and the little bitches were right in front of me, everyone kept telling them to shut the fuck up and they started to bitch on the phone to their friends about the old people telling them to shut it. Without a word, everyone around them picked up their popcorn and poured it on them, and I think someone threw their drink at them as well. We all cheered as they ran out of the theater.

I’m new to this whole cell phone shit ~ having been a hold out until a short while ago, but yes, you ARE right…some people think that the world revolves around them and to hell with you or anybody else. The scariest thing for me (I do a lot a driving), is seeing a car weaving inbetween lanes, usually 10 miles slower then surrounding traffic only to see when you go to pass them that they are more involved with their phone/ talking then the actual act of driving…see that shit everyday…good post my friend!
(a FOUR Paw rating to ya!)

[quote comment="1332"]everyone thinks they are a number 1, but most people are a number 2. my biggest peeve is people driving shitty because they are on the phone. i will pick up the phone while driving to find out if it’s important. if it’s not, i fucking hang up. what did these people do before they had cell phones? my car is my sanctuary where i can relax with my thoughts, or rock out to my music. i do not need to be in constant contact with people to feel okay.[/quote]

I have to say I thought the hands free law in New York State was rough but after driving out here it should be a nationwide law.

[quote comment="1333"]I consider myself a #1. However like Tarah, I am texting obsessed. I have been told it is rude to be hanging out with one person and secretly texting another under the table. Who knew?[/quote]

look at you work it… you need to keep your options open

[quote comment="1338"]I rarely use a cellphone. No one calls me…lol Great Blog Kevin. I would have done the same but much louder.[/quote]

But you could buy a blue tooth headset and make it look like people do.

[quote comment="1340"]I feel your pain Kevin…..I found myself yelling at my 14 y/o daughter the other day to “Turn that crap DOWN!! What the Hell is that…how can you listen to that garbage??!!In my defense it WAS Kenny Chesney…what have I spawned?! But I felt just like my mother..it was horrible.[/quote]

You should have shot her stereo

Great blog. We need to print this and distribute it to the masses. As far as feeling old, it happens to all of us at some point. Oh, and I will change your depends if you will wash my ass.

Kudos, Kev. I hate inconsiderate people. Instead of doing the mature thing and apologize for being rude when it’s brought to their attention, they have to be dickheads and argue with you. Try respect, people!!
I try to be a #1, but catch myself doing the second if I’m in Walmart or something. I use my bluetooth while I’m driving and forget to take it off sometimes, but I don’t think that really makes me part #3, does it?

For a long fucking time I didn’t even own a cell phone as I was avoiding brain cancer, but as the forces are against me in every other way, I began to think … why not?
But I am in the first category … because this is funny, I only have one person who ever calls me, and only then is it to tell me they’ve arrived at a several level warehouse and don’t want to go through every floor trying to find me.

I would say there is one category you forgot, and it is a rising trend apparentely. The people who talk on their cell phones - but there’s no one on the other line! Technically you could put this in status, but I just think it’s crazy.

Shit then you’ve got your - “How the hell does that person pay for a cell phone?” Seriously, I’m driving and there’s a guy who looks like a homeless lumberjack standing there with the latest flipphone.

The incident in the library was not an isolated one, which is unfortunate. It seems everytime I go to a public library there’s someone having a loud obnoxious conversation.

I’m most definately a conciencious user, and I rag on people who aren’t

I turn it off in the Library

I turn it off in the movie thater, i dont just put it on silent and txt with the phone glow that’s so annoying

I have it on vibrate at work and sitting on my desk, and I leave the general office area to take my calls, not that i get many

I dont like holding a conversation with an audience - so generally, I will try to find somewhere less populated it my phone rings and i’m in public.

I will not carry on a conversation on my cell while placing an order at a food counter, or doing my shopping. It’s rude to the person you’re transacting with.

Aside from the fact that I rarely get calls, I fall into the number one category. I’ve had many friends talk on their phone while we’re out to lunch or something and it just irritates the piss out of me that I’m left sitting there looking like a retard while my friend is carrying on about whatever with someone else. I have to quell the urge to strangle those who walk around screaming into their phone because they think everyone in the world needs to hear their conversation.

Good job standing up to that bitch… I think a slap across the face would have been appropriate in this situation as well

[quote comment="1344"][quote comment="1341"][quote comment="1336"]I hardly use my cell phone and forget to charge it most of the time, so I guess I would be type number one.

Yes, you are now and old man. How does it feel Grandpa?[/quote]

want to change my depends?[/quote]

Uhhh, did you do number one or number two?[/quote]

a mixture

[quote comment="1355"]Aside from the fact that I rarely get calls, I fall into the number one category. I’ve had many friends talk on their phone while we’re out to lunch or something and it just irritates the piss out of me that I’m left sitting there looking like a retard while my friend is carrying on about whatever with someone else. I have to quell the urge to strangle those who walk around screaming into their phone because they think everyone in the world needs to hear their conversation.

Good job standing up to that bitch… I think a slap across the face would have been appropriate in this situation as well :)[/quote]

oh i hate that

when I was in Oregon my boyfriend at the time took me out for an evening meal, and his cell went off and he had a twenty minute conversation with his family while sitting at the dinner table. Our meals went cold, and I was furious.
His excuse was that it was his family, and they were interstate, so he had to take it. I said that it’s not that hard to ask them to call back in an hour when we’re done with dinner. Apparently, his family came first, and he just couldnt see why it was rude or what my problem was.

Not only was I pissed off, but people around us were too.

[quote comment="1345"]Classic Kevin moment .. 45-year old man? well that kinda sounded like an 75 year-old woman … either way, you were right, no matter where one is, there has to be some freaking respect … at a movie theater there was these annoying 16 year olds with their cell phones telling their friends about the movie Hostel and how gross it was. Argh, and the little bitches were right in front of me, everyone kept telling them to shut the fuck up and they started to bitch on the phone to their friends about the old people telling them to shut it. Without a word, everyone around them picked up their popcorn and poured it on them, and I think someone threw their drink at them as well. We all cheered as they ran out of the theater.[/quote]

I would have fucking lost it… LOST IT… there is nothing that drives me nuts more than people talking in the movies.

[quote comment="1352"]Kudos, Kev. I hate inconsiderate people. Instead of doing the mature thing and apologize for being rude when it’s brought to their attention, they have to be dickheads and argue with you. Try respect, people!!
I try to be a #1, but catch myself doing the second if I’m in Walmart or something. I use my bluetooth while I’m driving and forget to take it off sometimes, but I don’t think that really makes me part #3, does it?[/quote]

Bluetooth is great while driving… but if you start to walk around everywhere with it. (I have seen people wearing it into the movies and shit… I mean come on…. at that point you become a number three.

[quote comment="1353"]

Shit then you’ve got your - “How the hell does that person pay for a cell phone?” Seriously, I’m driving and there’s a guy who looks like a homeless lumberjack standing there with the latest flipphone.

[/quote]

This is a great category…. I totally forgot to put that in… Great call.

I wonder if she’s on MySpace…. hmmmm.

[quote comment="1354"]

I will not carry on a conversation on my cell while placing an order at a food counter, or doing my shopping. It’s rude to the person you’re transacting with.[/quote]

I have been guilty of talking while ordering and I hated being that guy for that minute.

[quote comment="1355"]
Good job standing up to that bitch… I think a slap across the face would have been appropriate in this situation as well :)[/quote]

I knew I should have taken her out.

[quote comment="1361"]I wonder if she’s on MySpace…. hmmmm.[/quote]

I love the name Randy.

this has nothing to do with you blog Kev, but I’m blogging it anyway - sorry hunnie, I’ll make it up to you I promise.

My great Grand Daddy was Conyard Randal, a rather cool, if not old fashioned, name, and I’ve always ALWAYS since I was a little girl maintained that if I ever have a baby boy, he’d be called Randal, Randy for short.

So thanks, for making me think of my most awsome grand dad, and that sweet smelling aroma of pipe tabaco.

[quote comment="1351"]Great blog. We need to print this and distribute it to the masses. As far as feeling old, it happens to all of us at some point. Oh, and I will change your depends if you will wash my ass.[/quote]

I guess we can make a deal

[quote comment="1361"]I wonder if she’s on MySpace…. hmmmm.[/quote]

Oh my… she has to be … isn’t everyone?

[quote comment="1362"][quote comment="1354"]

I will not carry on a conversation on my cell while placing an order at a food counter, or doing my shopping. It’s rude to the person you’re transacting with.[/quote]

I have been guilty of talking while ordering and I hated being that guy for that minute.[/quote]

I’m more likely to ask the person on the phone to please hold just a for a second. The person you’re stood infront of deserves your attention, not the person glued to your ear, they can just wait.

[quote comment="1335"]I am #1. Without question. I even turn my phone off when my friends come over to watch the OU game. Much applause needed for “classless bitch”. I would have gone overboard. Wait, did you say a library? Oh, I live in Oklahoma, we don’t frequent those places.[/quote]

I don’t even want to know what you guys do there.

I’m numero uno mostly, unless I’m really expecting an important call but even then, I walk out of the room so not to disturb anyone.

Wait, scratch that - I never have important calls, unless I’m just trying to get out of a conversation with someone..

Oh, excuse me - my phone is ringing..

I may speak up next time so I can blog about the experience…should be fun. I am have most of the conscentious characteristics with my cell phone.

You forgot my kind of user. I’m the one who hates cell phones so much I neglect to bring mine anywhere with me.

I hope I am number1 on this scale when it comes to my cell. Answering in the movies or while out to dinner and in a library IS just classless. I was going to give the lady in front of me hell for answering her phone during a movie until I realized she was one of the OR nurses from the hospital and she was oncall for the weekend….she made no noise while talking not did the phone ring…so I guess in some instances its ok but still I get to thinking now….WHY did you go to a movie knowing you were oncall?

Generally I am a #1, however if I’m drunk I am a #2 talker. I can’t help it sometimes. But never in a library. We don’t have those in Oklahoma.

Yes, you forgot one. The super annoying either “ghetto fabulous” or suburban teenager with the most God awful ring tone set to 200 decibels, insert whatever catchy, pop tune makes you vomit now. I have heard “Don’t Cha” (wish your girlfriend was hot like me) on so many overweight, poorly dressed hookers phones, I could seriously scream. It makes me want to throw their phone and commence the worst verbal cut down imaginable. “Great you have a cell phone, super, thanks for joining the rest of the upright world. Get over yourself.”

well, i’ll let you decide what type of user i am…
cell is on vibrate at work, movie theater, etc. and i really only leave it on to make sure i know if i missed calls as my father and boyfriend don’t quite have the “leave a message” thing down yet. when in public and my phone actually rings i rarely answer it because i’m too busy dancing and singing to the ringtone. and i’ve even had people around me begin dancing, too! i get so involved i don’t answer in time and end up having to call the person back.

Well, there is another type of Bluetooth user. A cross between 1 and 3. They aren’t using if for status as much as they use it out of necessity because they’re on the phone ALL the DAMN TIME.

That person that shows up at your house talking on the phone and remains on the phone until after they leave. So you know they have that thing on all the time, even when they shit.

Unacceptable, really.

“my car is my sanctuary where i can relax with my thoughts, or rock out to my music. i do not need to be in constant contact with people to feel okay.”

AMEN to that! I refused to answer my phone in the car or while driving! My car is my personal concert hall damnit and that’s just rude!

As a matter of fact, just yesterday I dropped our cell phone plan! I have four teenagers who USED to hang out together, play board games, they were close…now, they never talk to each other, but sit there and TEXT people all freaking day! So, I gave it another month to see what the text bill ALONE was going to be and guess what kiddies? No more cell phones!

[quote comment="1335"]I am #1. Without question. I even turn my phone off when my friends come over to watch the OU game. Much applause needed for “classless bitch”. I would have gone overboard. Wait, did you say a library? Oh, I live in Oklahoma, we don’t frequent those places.[/quote]

I guess literacy and baseball must go hand in hand…

I hate it when people are on the phone in the library or movie theatre, but the worst is the “status user” having the blue tooth headset in at a restaurant while eating with their family. Get a life douche!

After working as a barrista in a franchise health food store frequented by granola yuppies, I learned the value of cell-phone politeness. I can’t even begin to count the number of times that someone would walk up to my counter mid-call, then after telling whoever they were talking to to hold on a moment, they would fire off their order to me and go back to their conversation before I had the opportunity to ask them various important questions (that they would later berate me if I didn’t pick up the telepathic hint that they wanted their small latte to be made with soy, and decaffinated).
Not only was it frustrating, work wise, but it was just…rude. I got in the habit of ignoring them if they were on their cell phones, then if I got attitude, explaining that it looked like they were in the middle of a very important call that I was loathe to interrupt. Most of them didn’t get it.
Since working there, however, if I’m in a store, talking on my cell, and I approach the register, I tell whoever I’m on with that I’ll call them back.

And I’m with you…since WHEN is talking in a library ok? I think you should have slapped that bitch. Seriously…sometimes I act silly and goofy in public, and people think I’m…special…but I really hate people who act in a way that compromises the enjoyment of others…those people who act like it’s their right to screw around however they like, even if it’s screwing other people over.
Ok…ramble ramble ramble I’m done.

My husband was a status user, the blue tooth headset thingy. He got tired of the constant jokes I made to him about how no one ever calls him but me and his mom…

and then I told him he looked like a cyborg with that thing sticking out of his ear.

Now it is sitting at the bottom of our twins toy box.

Can’t imagine why.

My phone sits at the bottom of my purse for weeks and then i realize i have 17 voicemails of my mom and husband saying

“bj, do you ever answer your phone?” call me back.

fuck those little library hoes!

Doesn’t your library have librarians to bitch-slap these people?

When I had my day in court last Friday, some idiot didn’t pay attention to the ‘ABSOLUTELY NO CELL PHONES IN THE COURTROOM’ sign and got a $100 fine from the judge for contempt! Would that the rest of us have that power.

Rules of cell phones:

1)If I’m talking with someone first, they take presidence over a phone call. If I need to take the call, I ask ‘would you please excuse me, I need to take this call’. Dissing someone in front of me for a person on the phone is highly rude.

2) If I’m on the phone, and I receive another call, I do the same thing.

3) The phone is primarily for my convenience calling out. Incoming calls are generally considered incidental in my book (unless it’s APQ cuz that bitch gets everything).

4) I don’t even take the phone with me in a movie theater (not that I go often, but still), library, or place of business where I need to interact with someone who works there. Grocery stores, though, are okay.

We get customers who come into our store and are talking on the phone. I don’t help them. If they ask me for help, I tell them I’ll be happy to when they finish their conversation. I train my employees the same way. Why? Because there is no point in my telling them something when I know they’ll not listen and I’ll have to repeat myself, even once.

Good post, Kevin, kudos.

You suck, Palmer!

Actually, how the bloody hell did you score Sid Haig? You need to give Trista your anus.

this was beyond disturbing your references to sex and what not amused me but I like the blog yesterday about porno movies

I went to lunch with a friend one day. She spent the entire time talking to her boyfriend on her phone loudly (”can you hear me”, etc.). Eventually, she got up and went outside leaving me to sit and eat my lunch alone. When she finally came back to the table, I was done. I paid for my meal and said, “Thanks for having lunch with me.” She said, “No problem.” Needless to say, I won’t accept a lunch invite from her again.

I work in a store and it drives me nuts when people have their earphones in or are on the phone and can’t stop being on the phone long enough to answer a couple of simple questions. Ugh.

I don’t own a cell phone because I don’t need a fucking security blanket and if I’m not home to take your call, there is probably a good reason for it - like I’m in a theatre or library or hiding from your sorry ass. I loved the invention of the answering machine, but used to think screening calls was rude until I had unpaid bills… Now I understand the answering machine is a gift to those of us who hate to waste time talking to morons after we chose not to date them again.

[quote comment="1375"]Well, there is another type of Bluetooth user. A cross between 1 and 3. They aren’t using if for status as much as they use it out of necessity because they’re on the phone ALL the DAMN TIME.

That person that shows up at your house talking on the phone and remains on the phone until after they leave. So you know they have that thing on all the time, even when they shit.

Unacceptable, really.[/quote]

I do that when people call to bitch about something truly stupid and won’t shut up for an hour - I take the phone in the bathroom with me. If they are particularly annoying I don’t cover the receiver.

[quote comment="1384"]this was beyond disturbing your references to sex and what not amused me but I like the blog yesterday about porno movies[/quote]

wait you didn’t like this because of my references to sex but you liked a blog about porno? wha?

[quote comment="1386"]I went to lunch with a friend one day. She spent the entire time talking to her boyfriend on her phone loudly (”can you hear me”, etc.). Eventually, she got up and went outside leaving me to sit and eat my lunch alone. When she finally came back to the table, I was done. I paid for my meal and said, “Thanks for having lunch with me.” She said, “No problem.” Needless to say, I won’t accept a lunch invite from her again.[/quote]

damn are you guys even friends anymore?