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Most Annoying Travel Habits
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: DavidinIndy on January 06, 2009, 08:59:29 pm ---Quite frankly I couldn't care less if someone is talking on the cell phone within earshot of me. It's really no different than two people talking to each other in conversation except in this case somebody is talking into a phone. Big deal.
I DO find it rude though in those situations like the one Clarissa described - when someone in my group suddenly starts talking on their phone and everyone else is expected to remain quiet until the phone call is terminated.
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I agree. I have a freind who has that weakness. When he pulls his phone out of his pocket and starts talking, then we "dangling" friends start whispering together and concocting fun things to do, and then, if the phone conversation is protracted, the two of us go off together and leave him talking on the phone! That'll teach him!!
Katie77:
I know we have gone off topic with this mobile phone thing....but I just wanted to tell you what happened with my nephew today.
He is a mechanic, and two days a week, he works behind the counter at the service centre of a car dealership.
Today, a bloke came in to pick his car up after a service, and Ryan was telling him what work they had done, and was explaining something to him, when the bloke's mobile phone rang, and the bloke answered it, and started talking on the phone, completely ignoring Ryan, who was only half way through talking to him about his car.
So, the phone on the desk rang, and Ryan answered it, and started taking details on phone from someone who wanted to book their car in.....Meanwhile, the bloke had finished his conversation on the mobile phone, and then stood there getting irritated because Ryan was now on the phone.
When Ryan hung up, the customer said he was rude, and had bad customer service..to which Ryan answsered, "well you were rude too, and I would not have taken phone call if you had not been on your mobile phone"......
These dam dang fangled things, they do create problems, thats for sure, and cause people who usually are not rude or ignorent to be so.
LauraGigs:
--- Quote ---These dam dang fangled things, they do create problems, thats for sure, and cause people who usually are not rude or ignorent to be so.
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Totally!
Kerry:
When I wasn't sardined into the 190 bus, the alternative city-bound commuter journey available to me was the equally crowded 150 bus to Manly wharf, from where I would make the half-hour ferry trip across Sydney Harbour to the city. I wish I had a hot dinner for every time I've had someone fall asleep on my shoulder on the ferry. I seemed to attract sleepers, like moths to a flame, on the ferry home at night. ::)
Katie77:
Oh Kerry, that reminds me of a story of a woman I used to work with......
SHE fell asleep on a communter train one time, and woke up on someone's shoulder......
She woke up with a startle and apologised to the bloke, and then saw that she had dribbled on his suit....
She never travelled in that same train carriage again.
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