Cell Phone Etiquette Reminder

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Originally posted by JiggaJynx
[br]Ah, Tri, I envy you. So often I have wanted such a device, but they are denied as illegal to us mere mortals in this country. What's a slug to do? I've considered eating beans at lunch everyday to be loaded for revenge, but I don't want to further distress the poor driver's senses.

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JJ,

You may try to "foul" the air with remenants of your lunchtime repast but you fail to remember that the driver controls the power window function and the heat and cooling controls.

Added to these factors is the normal movement of outside air through the vehicle interior as part of the car moving down the road will move any objectionable odors to the rear of the vehicle.

The driver can expedite the movement of these odors by cracking the rear passenger-side window to draw the odor to the rear of the car thereby "killing" the rear passenger as the smell flows through his/her window. Or if you are sitting in the rear seat, you may just have to sit there and "stew in your own juices" until a whiff makes it way to the driver's nose.

So, eat to your heart's content, but remember that if you get in my car and try to bless me with lunch leftovers, I may repay in kind and I know that my f@arts don't stink.[}:)]

John

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Originally posted by SpongeBob
[br]Funny how everything's reducible to a mundane bodily function. You all are too much!

I'm sad though, because Sponges can only, you know, make bubbles.

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And of course, they absorb odors...[:0]

John

Here's one for you, sans fart stuff: Chick rider in the front seat gets in at Tackett's on Thursday a.m. Her phone rings before we get on Old Bridge to run down to 95. She starts talking to what I could only assume was a boyfriend. She's giggling and whispering (can't hear all in the back seat). When we finally get down to the 123 intersection, she tells who she's cooing to that she has to "let you go now." After a few more giggle-snorts she says, "I love youuuuu - bye!"

I mistakenly thought she would have said to the driver, "I'm so sorry...my boyfriend...he's...you know...tee-hee-hee!" Instead, she just flipped her phone down. THEN she proceeded to cough and blow her nose the rest of the trip!

The driver never did a thing. I was sitting in the back listening to her cough, snort and blow her nose AFTER she got done talking with her boyfriend. All I could think was "THANK YOU! You f'ing B!" I really wasn't worried about getting her germs at the time, as I'd been out of the country and had come down with a head and chest thing on day two while I was there. Took a week to get over, but the thing is: I've talked about this before in another post. If you're sick, stay home if you can. It's unfair to think that just because you feel you have to (or can) haul your ass to work, you can infect the rest of us with your cold or flu. We don't know, when we first come upon the car, that there's a sick person in there - be it rider or driver.

The news people are even saying it now: If you're sick, stay home. PLEASE think of others! We all have family and don't need to be trapped in a car with a sick driver or a sick rider.

I had an emergency last week and had to make a call just as I was pulling up to 14th and NY to pick up some slugs. Unfortunately, since they had seen me on my phone in DC, I suppose they thought it was a free-for all. BOTH slugs got out their phones and proceeded to talk the whole way home. Now the one in the back just called to check on her kids, and that was fine, but the one in front was oud and obnoxious, and the fact that I hung up and turned my radio up just made him talk louder. The conversation had to do with "how he do" and he kept calling the woman "Baby" so I know it wasn't urgent, but I felt like I couldn't say anything since he had seen me on the phone first. I don't feel like I own my car when slugs are in it. :( I was scared to say something to him and have him get snippy. I was already worried and tense about my emergency, I didn't think I could take him on top of that. I was so glad when he got out.

Hopeful: I understand the hesitancy to say something because in the past I have and it is the rare person that apologizes and immediately hangs up. More times than not, the person does get snippy. My take on this is that a rider who enters another person's vehicle and carries on a conversation is inconsiderate to begin with and the likelihood that the offender will all of a sudden understand his/her inconsiderate ways is nil. Plus, who wants to add more stress to the day by having to tell a grown person that he/she is behaving inconsiderately? As a sometimes rider I am totally embarrassed when another rider gets in a vehicle yapping away on the phone. As for you justifying why you were on the phone - not necessary. It is your car and it is a totally different matter to listen to someone you are giving a ride to carry on a non-emergency conversation. Because it is never pleasant dealing with such people, I really like the idea about having a sign in the window (or wherever) stating that no chit-chatting on cells phones is to take place in the car. It is too bad that the few clueless have to be tolerated (or educated) to avoid a confrontation, however, if the majority of us are on the same page (and if it works), the chatterers will go by the wayside, and to me the sign seems "gentler" (gentler for me, not the chatterer), than trying to verbally tell these "civilized" people to HANG UP ALREADY!