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1 Geek Out: Do You Listen To Others' Cell Phone Conversations?
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2 Cell Phone Rant: The Old Ignore
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3 New geeksugar Group: Cell Phone Rant!
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4 Cell Phone Rant: Potty Talk
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5 Confession: I am a Cell Phone Rant Offender
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6 Cell Phone Rant: Drive-Thru Revenge
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8 Cell Phone Rant: Express Your Movie Theater Phone Rage!
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9 Cell Phone Rant: Is It OK to Talk in a Taxi?
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10 Cell Phone Rant: Why Texting Is Just As Bad
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11 Cell Phone Rant: On the Phone at the Pharmacy
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12 Cell Phone Rant: Your Cell Is Not a Boom Box!
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13 Cell Phone Rant: Get Off Your Phone For Service Sake!
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14 Have You Ever Been Caught With Your Ringer On?
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15 Cell Phone Rant: Unplugging Etiquette
This post comes to us from Elfyn, who let it all hang out in our Cell Phone Rant group: I own a mail and parcel shipping store in Southern California. A customer comes in wanting to make a copy, but the copier doesn't seem to be working. I go to help him and find my copier unplugged and a mysterious charger plugged in in its place. Note, the person who plugged in their charger had to physically Read more
As I settled in for the Back to the Mac event yesterday, I made sure to turn off my cell phone ringer, as you do when you head into a movie, presentation, or theater experience. However, a number of other people either forgot, or disregarded this courtesy, as I noticed a lot of ringers, buzzers, and mobile notifications going off while Steve Jobs and co. were on stage. But I wasn't the only one Read more
This cell phone rant comes from GeekSugar community member exchequette: I've worked in a couple of different coffee shops in the past and had the experience of trying to take an order from someone who's on the phone gabbing away. "Oh, yes, Honey, please don't forget — Oh! yes I'll have a coffee — Honey, don't forget to put the kids' — What? Oh! Um, a small, I guess — Ok Honey, sorry, I'm Read more
This post comes from Community member kristyrk in our Cell Phone Rant group: I take public transportation to and from work each day, and normally it's a quiet and easy-going experience. However, earlier this week I was heading home and ran into a bit of a snag. It all began when a woman got on the train talking quite loudly on her cell phone. After a few minutes, we headed into a tunnel (which Read more
Today's geek out comes to you courtesy of an anecdote posted by SilverFang9899 in the Cell Phone Rant Group. It wasn't so much the cell phone story itself, about a woman screaming and crying on her cell phone — "It sounded as though her boyfriend were breaking up with her" — but a bit that SilverFang wrote about her own reaction. She wrote: "It didn't really bother me, as I take perverse Read more
Usually our cell phone rants have to do with people being on their cell phones at the wrong time and place, like while you're in the ladies' room, ordering food, etc., but here's an offense many of us do at some point, even if you're totally texting in the right time and place: The Ignore. Have you ever been hanging out with someone when they're text messaging or on their cell phone, and it's Read more
Spending an hour waiting for a prescription to be filled is not anyone's idea of fun, but it happens to all of us once in a while. It happened to me recently, and as I sat in the small waiting area, I people-watched the pharmacy line (and read People, of course). What had me surprised on this day, other than the length of time it takes Walgreens to get a prescription ready, was the amount of Read more
I suppose it would be OK to text in certain places that it's not appropriate to be using a cell phone; while you're in a drive-thru, or happily tapping away in the backseat of a taxi cab, but in most scenarios, it is just as rude to be clicking your thumbs through texts as it is to be flapping your lips on your phone. I don't mean to be ageist, but there's a younger demographic that I've Read more
OK, Cell Phone Rant group members, I've got a sticky subject on cell phone etiquette. It's pretty cut and dry where not to be on your cell phone, lest you're judged as rude or worse, icky — the drive-thru, ordering food, and yes, the bathroom — but are there places where you're receiving a service that it's OK? I'm talking specifically about taxi cabs. Live in a city, and you're bound to take Read more
TeamSugar user Foofie recently shared some advice in the Cell Phone Rant Group for those of us who are bothered when people talk on the phone or text in movie theaters: speak up! Foofie says: If I tell the cellphone user to put it away and they don't, I simply go to the usher and tell them that I saw that person trying to record the movie with their cellphone and I get them booted out. Yes, it's Read more
