we live in a society!!

seconded.
Why do people insist on yelling into cell phones? I'm not sure if that is more annoying when you are just around them, or when you are trying to talk on the phone to them and it sounds like they are telling you where you subway is about to stop.

I'm reminded of George Costanza

"You know we're living in a SOCIETY!!!!

I have a question, what if a person comes up to the counter in a store, and is having a converstion with their friend. What if someone is on a bus having a conversation with the person next to them, and it's too loud. I rarely hear people rant about this stuff without indiciting the cellphone as the root cause. But as long as you modulate your damn voice I don't see what the cellphone has to do with anything.

Indeed. I hate the people who yell into their cell phones and the ones who keep talking while they are at a register. Where's my army of kill-bots when I need it?

yeah I had no idea george costanza had such nice juggs

When someone comes up to the counter while talking to their friend, they generally stop talking to them while they talk to you, instead of just expecting you to know what they want or gesturing at you, like many people will do while on a cell phone. A lot of people seem to sort of lose touch with the world around them while they have a cell phone to their ear.

admit it honey you wear a manzere

It's a BRO.

Exactly. Person #2 who is not making a counter transaction knows that you have stopped talking to them for a minute while you talk to the counter person.

Most of the problems with people using cell phones in general has to do with the person giving too much attention to the person on the phone, and little or none to the rest of the world going on around them. So they talk to loud, walk into busy intersections, or crash their car because they were too busy talking on the phone instead of paying attention to high speed traffic.

Its the modern equivalent of not being able to walk and chew gum at the same time.

so the people are the problem, not the device.

people are always the problem.

Yeah, except guns. Because we all know they are satan tools that run down small children and pistol whip them while simultaneously shooting the family dog, and jumping into the hands of a convicted felony drug dealer.

not just people are the problem, but the acceptance of negative and selfish behavior is the real problem. when you ask someone to not talk on the phone ( say at a bank line or a gas station - which is a serious fucking hazard due to gas pumps blowing up beacuse of electrical shortages caused by cell phones) they get offended and pissed off at you instead of having the self awarness to admit they are being fucking rude and disrespectful to everyone around

Here's why I make the distinction. I was on a bus recently talking on my cell phone, and this guy gets on the bus and sits in the back and starts talking about the White Sox to the guy next to him, and he's louder than holy FUCK. I get off the phone and this old lady sitting across from me looks and me and tsk tsk's and says, "They should outlaw those damn phones in public." She then spends the next 20 minutes ranting loudly about how the fucking cell phones should be banned to the grinning dope sitting next to her. And between her and the White Sox douche bag it's cacophony. And of course neither of them are on the phone.

I, the guy who was on the phone, was completely inocuous.

Well, that's what you get for taking the bus.

I just hate that damn ear piece where I can't tell if you're on the phone or just a raving lunatic. I must say that fucking walkie-talkie feature drives me nuts!

Yeah, agreed. On thing that I think we'll both agree on is that people who have the latest Ludacris tune as their ringtone, turned up as loud as it will go, should pretty much be shot on sight.