apocalypsos | To the lady in line in front of me at Target ...

To the lady in line in front of me at Target ...

PUT YOUR FUCKING CELL PHONE DOWN.

Oh, my God, what the hell is wrong with you? You just went through an entire transaction with the cashier without acknowledging her, without even looking at her, and all so you could ramble on about your daughter's stupid gymnastics class? Just in case you were wondering, when I rolled my eyes for the cashier and said, "Boy, that's not rude at ALL," I was gesturing towards you.

I just ... I don't even get it. I can't remember who it was on ye olde friends list who was saying pretty much exactly this same thing the other day, but do you really need to use a phone ALL the damn time? I don't know -- I have a cell phone for emergencies and nothing else. I have no desire to call anybody with it. I mean, I barely call anyone on my land line, but still. My best friend at work checks her voicemail every night during our lunch break (at one in the morning, mind you) and then calls them back. And it's never anything important enough to warrant a phone call in the middle of the night. The other day she spent the entire lunch break on the phone with someone about absolutely nothing, drove us to Dunkin Donuts and back again, and the entire time she was on the phone didn't bother to acknowledge my existence at ALL.

Sometimes I feel like I was the only one raised to believe that any phone call made after nine o'clock at night had better be because you are on fire and the other person is the closest person you know with an extinguisher. There's so much about cell phone usage that's so rude and selfish I just can't even get into them. The only reason I really want one is because I'm dreadfully addicted to constant email updates, but you know what? I WAIT.

*hands in air*

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In less rage-inducing news, Mona and Rachel are horrible, terrible influences.

To translate, I now own Pulse and The Covenant.

Expect drunken recaps. Really, what else am I going to do with them? (I made up for it by buying the second season of Project Runway. That does count as making up for it, yes *hopeful eyes*)

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people using cell phones ALL THE DAMNED TIME is one of my biggest pet peeves. People calling me after 9pm...or before 10am...get no cookies. okay I've taken to turning off my cell phone in the evenings because people would jsut call at the oddest hours. I don't call anyone after 9pm unless it's important.

WHEE THE GAY CRAFT WHEE.

*snickers*

I'm justifying it by telling myself Steven Strait is a hotass and if it gets really bad I can just pause it and think, "Hot DAMN, that man is pretty."

\o/

It's almost BETTER with the sound off the entire time. Scratch that, it IS better. *nods*

I hate the phone. URGH.

My roommate does the same fucking thing. We'll be driving somewhere and she'll get on her phone and talk the entire drive. It's the most annoying thing in the fucking WORLD. I used to be all polite and turn down the music because I thought maybe she was talking about something important, but now I know she just likes to hear her ex-boyfriend tell her to shut up and where the hell is she and why aren't we THERE yet, so I don't turn it down. Ha.

The most annoying is that she'll do it on long car trips. Where she is DRIVING. Driving MY CAR. And I'm all, "Dude, don't drive my car and talk on the phone at the same time, you're going to get us killed, and hurt my car!" I should make a new rule. No phone calls in my car.

Oh, the worst is when my friend from work will do this in her car, which doesn't have a working radio. So now we're sitting in her silent car and I'm stuck listening to her one-sided conversation about absolutely nothing. "Yeah. I know. HA! Well, of course. No. I'm on break. Yeah. Why? HA! Okay. No."

ARGH. *bangs head against dash*

I hate phones in general anyway but that's what six months as a telemarketer will do to a person. *bitchface*

Okay, I have an awful cellphone story to share! We were dropping off the girl I babysit at her brother's school so they could both be picked up by their mother. The classes that had just gotten out were first and second grades, I think, so you've got a bunch of little kids running around. This mother pulled into the parking lot on a cellphone, went over to pick up her son, came back, and drove off without getting off the cellphone. She's damn lucky she didn't hit anybody, and I feel bad for the kid, who probably didn't get much more than a hello.

I'm a cashier in a grocery store, and let me tell you. The only thing more annoying than a person, on their cellphone, completely ignoring you, is when they're ignoring you AND reaching around the register to try and scan their own discount card. Or, OR! When they give you dirty looks when you ask them questions, as if to say "How dare you interrupt this life-altering phone call. Ring up my cheetos, peon." Well ya know what? Next time, go to self-scan and RING UP YOUR OWN CHEETOS, LADY. Is it that hard to put the phone down for two freakin seconds and act like a human being instead of the trained ape that you look like? No, wait. Apes are smarter than that.

UGH.

And hi. I forgot to mention I'm a lurker. Sorry for ranting in you comments.

Oh, no need to apologize for ranting about this. Seriously, this is one of my biggest pet peeves on the planet.

Those self-scan lines, on the other hand, are my favorites. It's like the entire grocery store is a big vending machine. *bounces* :)

Yes! And they never have any lines. I think some people are oddly intimidated by them. Then again, huge, talking computers ARE sort of scary. It's like the first evolution of cylons or something. Oh my God.

Aaaand now I've just freaked myself out :)

Yeah, the only time I don't use them is when I have produce, if only because for some reason that's the thing I usually screw up. I skipped them today because I had baking potatoes with me. I was almost tempted to take them back because, YAY TOY! :)

This morning, one of my coworkers called her sister and talked for fifteen minutes ... and then ended by telling her that she'll be on jury duty next week so she'll only be able to talk to her on lunch breaks.

::headdesk::

I support and endorse this rant.

Ditto on the entirety of cell phone usage. I often leave my cell off for days and days because I've forgotten and don't need it.

Heeee at The Covenant. Um, enjoy yourself?

Mine is off and in the well between the driver's and passenger's seat in my car. ALWAYS.

Heeee at The Covenant. Um, enjoy yourself?

*beams*

Steven Strait is pretty!

*thumbs up*

(I will keep saying that because it will keep being a good reason for buying the damn thing. Heh.)

I won't even get into line to checkout if I'm on the phone. I'll finish my conversation or call them back later because it's rude. And I'm attached to my phone at the hip to keep in contact with my boyfriend, it literally does not get more than a step away from me, ever. Granted that will change after he moves in.

I'll take late phone calls all the time, my friends know to call if they need a place to crash from drinking too much and my brother randomly calls me at midnight or later, then again, I'm usually up anyhow.

(For the record, I too am a lurker, but had to share.)

I work in a pharmacy. People come to me to get their medications, which are pretty important in the grand scheme of things. So someone, anyone, please explain to me why these morons feel it necessary to gab away on the cell phone when trying to drop off and pick up prescriptions! I need to know if you've ever filled prescriptions with us before, if you're allergic to any medications, and who you are, because believe it or not, I might just have 2 John Smiths in the system and the only way I can tell them apart is the date of birth, which your doctor didn't put on the script. So hang up the freaking phone!

Sorry, just had to get that off my chest!

Me too! Fortunately, I live in a country town where most people still have manners and it's pretty rare that people will *endanger their own lives by talking on the phone and ignoring medical advice*!

If you call me after 10 and it's not because a) someone died, b) someone is in the hospital about to die, or c) I'm supposed to pick you up at the airport if four hours and you missed your connection, I am going to be so pissed it's not even funny.

Especially if it's after 12. That's just beyond rude. If it's not vital that I know it right now, for crying out loud wait until morning.

My best friend is a night owl, doesn't have a girlfriend, and lives in California, so I do tend to talk to him after 10 pm (my time) a lot. It can be a necessity, especially when I'm on above-ground subway platforms and it's after 11 pm. If I'm talking on the phone, that means that someone knows I'm alive and there's also a slimmer chance that I'll be attacked. (At least this is what I believe. Please do not disabuse me of this notion.)

I do try and call people back if/when they call when I'm in line for a cashier or a teller. But I'll also talk on the phone on the bus to my boyfriend's because I try not to answer the phone when I'm at his place.

You know, I don't even own a cell phone. And by golly, I get along JUST FINE. For those who own them (I'll use you as an example) and know when to use them and when NOT to use them, I applaud you.

My friends would shoot me if I called late at night to talk about nothing.

I don't understand people and there phones, ya know?

Eh, I have no landline (none of my family does) so I use my cell phone a bit. But if I *have* to take a call, I get out of line. I never use it while trying to interact with people, and if I need to talk to someone on it while interacting, I always excuse myself to do so. Hi, common sense folks. I HATE PEOPLE who talk on their cell through the transaction at work (starbucks). I hate it. I'm like, hi, here, let me spit in your coffee, did you even notice?

I agree on the phones,totally. I had someone behind me tonight telling someone they were in the supermarket, and then held the phone to the wheels so they could hear the wonky wheel on the trolley.

The Covenant? Will there be Taylor Kitsch squeeage? I swear that boy is finer than anything ghost hunters in Vancouver have to offer

UGH YES. You know what's worse? The people who wear those stupid fucking headset thingies all the damn time and TALK ON THEM CONSTANTLY and you know what they look like? SCHIZOPHRENIC PEOPLE WHO TALK TO THEMSELVES. Seriously, it's only b/c these bastards are wearing multi-thousand dollar suits that I can tell them from the homeless lady on the corner in Georgetown who rants about how Al Gore will eat my children. I know I live in Washington, DC and all but NO ONE IS THAT IMPORTANT. HANG UP THE PHONE.

*rages*

In less rage-inducing news, Mona and Rachel are horrible, terrible influences.

To translate, I now own Pulse and The Covenant.

OMG YAY!!! I could literally cry in this moment from gleeful anticipation. YOU HAVE NO IDEA.

OMG YES. If two years in DC taught me anything it was that those headphone thingies make me want to punch the people wearing them.

And, heh. You're lucky I picked up a case of Smirnoff Grape. I have a feeling I'm going to need the whoooooole thing. ;)

Heh. My dad has one of those little headset things, but he only uses it in the car.

I tried to hold out without a cell phone for a few years after all my peers got them, but eventually the pay phone in my high school broke down, and I was there until 8pm so I needed a way to call home. And that's pretty much been my calling philosophy ever since- I use the cell phone when I need to get a ride or check on a meeting with someone, and that's about it.

The problem is that most people don't remember life before cell phones, which is why they'll never let go of them or turn them off. (What if I get a call? What if there's an emergency?!) Dude, there were emergencies before cell phones, and people got along somehow.

-blue, who, not coincidentally, is a regular theatergoer

I hate rude people on cell phones. My biggest peeve is people gabbing while driving. I almost got nailed this morning while driving to work because some woman was on her cell and ran the red light.

A close second is when people in the office drop everything because OMG MY CELL IS RINGING! I had someone try to do this while I was giving them an assignment.

I don't have a land line. I don't use my cell all that much. I'm not a phone person. I shut it off at work. If it's after 11pm; I answer the phone with "What's wrong?" The answer had better not be "Nothing."

I have a friend who used to constantly call me late at night during the week for no real reason. It drove me nuts. I retalliated by calling her at 8am on Sundays. Thankfully, since she got a boy toy; it's stopped.

I never turn mine off, but that's because I always forget to turn it on again, and it is also my landline/only way to get in touch with me save email.

But what I want to beat into people's heads -- starting with my mother -- is that just because it rings doesn't mean you have to answer!

I mean, seriously. If you have a landline, you almost surely have an answering machine/service. Remember these? We all grew up with them after all. Don't tell me you don't let it ring through when you're busy with something. And that's at home!

On a cell you're almost always out doing something. So, unless you're waiting for news that someone finally just went into labor or are expecting to have to talk someone down off a ledge, let it ring! When you next get a spare minute, you can check the ID/number. If it's someone/something important, you can then stop what you're doing and make time to call them back. If not, leave it until you're free.

If it's really a gawdawful unexpected emergency, they'll call right back. Sometimes more than once. Then you can answer immediately. And if it turns out not to be an actual emergency, you can keep them on the line until you track them down and beat them about the head and shoulders with their own phone.

See? Simple.

i only use my cell phone and I am aaallways awake at night, so late night calls are fine and i receive them a lot. You know... for some people, they know their friends will be up, so it's not as big a deal. As far as talking in lines.. or at RESTAURANTS! That gets me... a lot.

Seconded on the friends-up-late issue -- but I know who I can do this with and who I can't. And I let people know what my hours are. I used to work 1pm-gawdawful, so I'd be dead asleep before noon and would kill anyone who woke me up at 8am.

Argh, that makes me punchy. For all the suckiness of my job, if people stand there talking on their phone in the hospital (there's signs everywhere saying "please don't") they don't get served by the ward receptionists. Simple as that.

This hairdresser I once visited (no longer, tho) had this thing where she wouldn't shut up ever, and so when she was driving home she had to have her cellphone on and talking to one of the other hairdressers on the train on in their car or whatever. I don't even want to think about how many car crashes that's going to cause.

Well, you could alawys write Covenant fic for me starring Pogue. *Bats eyelashes innocently* What? I had to try.

So much WORD to your rant. I have a friend who sounds very much like your coworker. Last Saturday, we were out at dinner and a cell phone started ringing somewhere in the restaurant, and she had the nerve to complain about people who don't follow proper cell phone etiquette (ie, silence the phone). Of course, since we had just spent the previous 20 minutes with me sitting in silence while she gabbed on her phone on the drive over, my response was more "WTF" than "right on!"

Ah, self-absorption. All you can do is laugh. Or punch people in the head.

Sometimes I feel like I was the only one raised to believe that any phone call made after nine o'clock at night had better be because you are on fire and the other person is the closest person you know with an extinguisher.

God, yes. My mom would get SO PISSED if anyone called after nine. So much so that now I get pissed if people call late. It amazes me how much people feel the need to communicate the most innane things via phone JUST BECAUSE THEY CAN. 10 years ago it wasn't that bad. Hell, FIVE years ago it wasn't that bad. Well, maybe then. But STILL.

Nathan Fillion just had a post about this in his myspace blog (http://www.myspace.com/nathanfillion). (it's flocked though)

could not agree more,
so has any of you read Stephen King´s the Cell?

Dude, I had a problem with my coworker last week where I ended up calling him "rude" and he got mad at me. It's like all common manners fly out the window when it comes to cellphones.

Season 2 of Project Runway is my fave. Daniel V!!!

Man, I love The Covenant in all its Craft-like cheesy, hot boy, BAD lines goodness!

And dude, Before 9/After 9 - DONT CALL FOLKS LESS ITS AN EMERGENCY. *shrugs* Thats what I was taught ...

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