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Kerry:
I have absolutely no problem with people chatting on their mobiles in public. After all, that's what they're for, right? What I do object to, however, is people speaking at the tops of their voices in an enclosed public area, where others can't escape. Why oh why do so many people YELL into their mobiles? I wouldn't mind if they were yelling about something interesting, that I want to hear about. But no, it's usually some inane, vapid drivel, such as "I'VE GOT MY PINK TOP ON! WHAT ARE YOU WEARING?" Sheesh!  :-\

Katie77:
Yeah, I dont have a problem with people talking on mobile phones. I dont use public transport so havent come accross it there, but talking on a phone on a train, is no different to having two people near you having a conversation....Only thing is, on the phone, we can only hear one side of the conversation.

And as far as meeting people when travelling.....I'm sure many people meet and continue friendships where they have met on a short journey.

Only last month, when my friend from America was flying back to Sydney, from our local airport, her plane was delayed for three hours, and we got talking to a lady, who only lived ten minutes down the road from me. We exchanged telephone numbers and email addresses and we have since been in contact and met again for a drink.  And I think we will end up having a nice firiendship and catch up from time to time.We have a few things in common,similar age, and both happy to have found a nice local friend.

pnwDUDE:
Kelda, it would have probably made him more mad to simply ignore him. By asking if he had a problem, you gave him the green light to carry on like he did.

I get very annoyed at people who talk on cell phones:

--too loudly

--anytime in restaurants at dining tables

--when they are talking in a public situation instead of paying attention to directions/signs etc., which results in the inconvenience of others

It seems to me, if you are on a commuter train safely in your seat, that is the perfect time to use a cell phone, so long as your not being loud/disruptive.

Brad

Katie77:
Mobile phones in restaurants is so so rude....unless it is important, and the phone user has the manners to walk away to somewhere private to deal with the call.

I was in a theatre the other day, seeing the movie, Benjamin Buitton, and a young girl, just up from me, and sitting in front of an older couple, received a mobile phone text. It didn't ring, but obviously vibrated, but when she opened her phone, the light from it was like a bloody beacon in the darkened theatre. The elderly man behind her, asked her nicely to turn it off, and she looked at him, then turned back to the phone and continued replying to her text.

I had made up my mind, after watching that, that if it happened a second time, I would just reach over and grab the phone and she would be searching for it down the front of the theatre some time later.

Luckily it did not happen again.

Made me think of that bloke that pulled the gun in America, watching the same film.......

Ellemeno:
I think cell phone conversations in public confined spaces can be very irritating.  But sometimes necessary.  When I'm in a restaurant and my phone rings and I have to answer it, I usually start the conversation by saying, "I'm in a restaurant and can only talk a moment..."  then I conduct the key portion of the business and hang up til later.  I partly say that so that the person calling me knows why I'm going to be very brief, but also so that my fellow humans in the restaurant around me know that I intend to be very brief.  Or I say, "I'm in a restaurant.  Let me walk outside and call you back," and then do that.  That one doesn't work on a train or bus, of course.  Txting is good that way (other than in dark theaters).

I really do wonder if the variation in preferred cell phone etiquette is a generational thing.  My niece in her mid-20s will answer her phone sitting in my living room and just start talking with no "excuse me" to me and others sitting there, and no attempt at a short conversation.  Suddenly this invisible, inaudible person has joined our conversation, and we, the people actually in the room with her, usually wind up being the ones who politely shut down.  I've wanted to talk to her about this behavior and how much I hate it for years, but don't trust I'll be pleasant about it, so haven't said anything yet.

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