attn: loud talking cell phone user in the elevator

[minxnim]

when i say "could you talk louder? my ears aren't bleeding yet." i'm being, indeed, a sarcastic fucking bitch.

xoxo
ME

 

[xfer]

you should carry around a little air horn and let loose when someone's on their cell talking louder than is necessary. WWWEEEEENNNNGHHHH! WEEENNNNNGHHHH!!!!

 

[minxnim]

haha omg that'd be so funny. but still it'd be mean to the other innocent bystanders!

 

[Baliset]

i would just rip the guy's phone away and smash it on the ground.

 

[minxnim]

she was so loud. seriously. and it was 7 long floors down while she talked really self importantly. so i had to be like "hey ... scuze me" and start in on her. it's not in my nature to not protect my more sensitive natured clients in the building that she might distress with her blabbering.

p.s. if it were outside of work i would have just stabbed her to death.

 

[TheNewChupe]

you know, my gf talks loud on her cell phone - i believe it's a combination of her thinking the other person can't hear her and just getting carried away with her conversations. i bring it up sometimes, but haven't stabbed her in the mouth yet. it's one thing when i'm in the car with her and it's just kinda loud and gives me a little headache, but when we're in public, i'm normally a non-disturbing, quiet person anyway, so talking on a phone at all in public annoys me. we're just kind of different that way- not a big deal. but i do try and reign her in sometimes to avoid bugging people. as for myself, i often lose track of my cell phone partly because i hate carrying it and the above hated public use thing. and i just like not being able to be contacted sometimes.

 

[xfer]

i do because i don't own a cell-phone and i don't understand exactly how loud i need to talk, so when i've borrowed it, i've certainly shouted too loud here and there. but i think if i owned it for more than a week i would catch on.

 

[The Dope]

I've got nothing but hate for cell phones in general, and I refuse to own one until some job requires that I own one.

 

[minxnim]

i didnt get one until my mom insisted. but either way, you do NOT have to yell. and i just feel like, especially in a fucking elevator, your call is NOT THAT IMPORTANT. or else take the fuckin stairs.

 

[avi]

I feel embarassed whenever I have to answer my cell in public

 

[minxnim]

i am a perpetual quiet talker/mumbler so sometimes i will be hanging out with someone and they won't even REALIZE when i've answered my phone because i am so quiet and/or stealth about it.
my goal in life is to draw as little attention to my physical self in public as humanly possible.

 

[minxnim]

for some reason my post up there gave me this mental image of telling a client in a wheelchair on a cellphone to TAKE THE FUCKIN STAIRS and for like, 1/2 a second i laughed and that's so messed up.

 

[mindspell]

I usually find a quiet place to talk where I won't bother anyone.

 

[minxnim]

also, today a client here for custody stuff who is blind said 'i just want to see my kids' and mary and i sat there silently for a second and he said 'you know what i mean!'.

 

[xfer]

haha ok that made me laugh aloud.

 

[minxnim]

it was really funny but totally not funny at the same time.

 

[Steve]

you should carry around a little air horn and let loose when someone's on their cell talking louder than is necessary. WWWEEEEENNNNGHHHH! WEEENNNNNGHHHH!!!!

I did that
in a store...

 

[tar]

i would have loved this thread in the past but i think i've crossed to the other side. =[

preppz maybe she was talking to her mother or was having dumb relationship problems. actually this happened to ME on the elevator today, some girl was talking to her boyfriend and she was like "ok luv u bye" in a get-it-over-with sort of way, and, in the most annoying whining voice he said "bye. i love you honey?" After I realized that her phone was loud enough for me to here, i secretly predicted that the tone implied some sort of annoying trait of the person on the other end. when she hung up she turned to her friend and said "god, relationships." in any case i don't know where the line between curiousity and creepiness comes in here, or where that line gets placed when you insist on carrying on such a conversation in a quiet, crowded elevator.

 

[FuSoYa]

Avi, perhaps you remember Alex calling you from my cel phone in San Francisco as we walked down the street. I interrupted him in mid-sentence and said "hey alex you don't have to yell"

 

[kleo706]

Tutoring center = reason I advocate for destruction of cellphones that function as walkie talkies.