Freedom!!!

[Saulbadguy]

Originally Posted by Lzen

That isn't a bad idea. While they're at it, they can kindly remove parents with noisy children (if it's not a kids flick). Maybe not necessarily remove them from the premesis but remove them from the theater.

Kindly?

[Otter]

Count me in on the "install the jammers" crowd. Too many stupid/ignorant people to give everyone the benefit of the doubt when it comes to using cell phones with etiquette.

While were at it, install them in cars.

If your wife is about to go into labor why are you at the theatre?

If you think you need to be in contact 24/7, get over yourself. Any one of us can get run over by a bus and life will go on for everyone else.

[CosmicPal]

Originally Posted by Otter

Any one of us can get run over by a bus and life will go on for everyone else.

What? Otter, man if you were run over by a bus I'd be profoundly devastated. My life would come to a complete halt and I would never be able to post on the Planet again....

[Otter]

Originally Posted by CosmicPal

What? Otter, man if you were run over by a bus I'd be profoundly devastated. My life would come to a complete halt and I would never be able to post on the Planet again....

No, no...I insist that you continue to pursue a happy life with the planet being a part of it.

Actually, once again I didn't convey out my statement as well as I should have.

I'm not referring to people who are on call for work that actually need a phone but the people who think they need to be accessable to everyone in their social circle.

Either way, cell phones are still going to be abused. A minor annoyance when it happens ever once in awhile, unfortunatly its the norm for any public area today. It's not a minor annoyance, it's a royal pain in the ass.

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by Saulbadguy

Kindly?

You know, ushers say something like "excuse me but I'm going to have to ask you to step out of the theater and turn off your phone before re-entering". No need to alienate your customers. Sooner or later, people will understand that it's unnacceptable behavior and most will change their ways, IMO.

[CosmicPal]

I recall a couple of years ago, I went on a date with this gal I met at a bar a few nights before. Since the very moment I picked her up at her place- she would take and make phone calls, one right after the other. We maybe said but two words to each other the entire time I was driving to the restaurant.

Anyways, so we get to the restaurant, and I’m thinking to myself- “Good…now, maybe we can start talking to each other since she ought to put the damn phone away in a restaurant.”

Not.

She took a phone call as soon as we sat down. After that, excused herself to make another one, and blah, blah, blah.

By that time- I had had it. I ordered a drink for myself and contemplated my next move. I then turned to my date and told her I’d be going to the restroom. Of course, she just nodded as she continued to hammer the phone.

Well, I went straight up to our waitress and gave her $40 and told her that I was leaving for the evening.

“What ‘bout your girlfriend?”

“She’s my date and she’s been on that damn phone ever since I picked her up. So, I’m leaving. Here’s forty for the dinner I actually ordered, but I’m not going to eat. Give my date ten dollars for a cab ride home or you may pocket it yourself. I don’t care. The rest is your tip.”

She laughed and said she understood.

I got into my car, drove over to a friend’s house and drank the rest of the night. I never did hear back from my date. And I sure the hell never called her.