Yak, yak, yak...

moribundman · Sep 8, 2007

... and then some more yakking.

I spent a couple hours in the yard, killin'n chillin.' One of my neighbors was on her balcony talking nonstop on the cell phone. She's apparently skilled in talking and breathing without ever having to pause for even 0.3 seconds. Un-freakin-believable. Talk about getting your ear literally chewed off. How can anybody stand it? The whole neighborhood had to learn about her deadly boring, pathetic little life. I usually just hang up the phone if people rant on more than a minute or so. Just had to get this off my chest.

MarkC · Sep 8, 2007

I was in Starbucks today, and I looked up from my book once, seeing that every single person inside was on their cellphone at the same time. Not counting the employees, of course, but there were still at least 18 people(I got tired of counting) on the phone at once.
Ridiculous.

Gary Allan · Sep 8, 2007

A friend would call her mother every once and a while when she was visiting us (in from out of town). She would merely dial the phone and, after saying hello, remain silent. Every once and a while she would remove the phone from her ear and hold it up so we could hear the constant chatter that required no participation on the other end.

Aldaris · Sep 8, 2007

i'm absolutely starting to hate talking on the phone to people.

97tbird · Sep 8, 2007

a tech in the pharmacy i work at, calls her friends all the time (while at work), and has about 7-8 "mini" conversations per every half hour. all the conversations begin with "what're you doin?"...effin' annoyin'!

Pablo · Sep 8, 2007

Suddenly. This is driving you crazy?

I'm like yeah he knows he's a butthead but yeah she didn't even have to wear those shoes.....oh my gawd did you see her.....I'm whatever like....

Sorry.

Every day when driving and I'm at the head of the line turning left and see about 10-15 people on the cell go by.....all in row. Naturally I assume every one of them is closing a million dollar deal? Their dog is giving birth to possums? No they are all calling the cleaners! Silly me.

moribundman · Sep 8, 2007

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Suddenly. This is driving you crazy?

Suddenly I feel like sharing.

Brogy · Sep 8, 2007

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a tech in the pharmacy i work at, calls her friends all the time (while at work), and has about 7-8 "mini" conversations per every half hour. all the conversations begin with "what're you doin?"...effin' annoyin'!

lol, I work in a pharmacy too, you got our tech, we fired her because she talked non stop on her phone.

huffmuds9320 · Sep 8, 2007

I really like it when people talk on their phone on the bus, keeps other people entertained. Then there are some that talk on their phone in the library and just can't hang up.

"I'll call you back later I'm in the library." Then continue talking for another 10 minutes.

Shannow · Sep 8, 2007

I loathe cell phones.

People keep saying we need to carry our mobile more "so we can get you while you're out"...precisely why it's either home, or off.

Another thought...brother was putting in fire systems at a shopping mall, and there was an asian chap yelling and talking animatedly into his mobile. Brother thought he was giving the person at the other end a severe revving, until the phone rang.

Gary Allan · Sep 8, 2007

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Suddenly. This is driving you crazy?

Suddenly I feel like sharing.

(visions of Kirk after Spock just admitted to "a guess")

Why, mori,..that's amazing!

"Brother thought he was giving the person at the other end a severe revving, until the phone rang."

He wasn't talking to himself. He was rehearsing.

oilyriser · Sep 8, 2007

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Suddenly. This is driving you crazy?

Suddenly I feel like sharing.

(visions of Kirk after Spock just admitted to "a guess")

Why, mori,..that's amazing!

"Brother thought he was giving the person at the other end a severe revving, until the phone rang."

He wasn't talking to himself. He was rehearsing.

Or maybe he has a second line.

Papa Bear · Sep 8, 2007

We don't have cell phones either .....

Actually, Mama Bear and I are thinking about trading in our Admiral B&W television for one of those new-fangled color jobs.

The new van however has 30 mins. of cell phone FREE for the first year with On-Star. We sit in the van waiting for it to ring....

GMGuy · Sep 8, 2007

Answer back if they are talking to loudly. =-) Seems to tone them down a bit when you keep answering after the initial dirty look they throw your way.

Alex.

Gary Allan · Sep 8, 2007

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Quote:

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Suddenly. This is driving you crazy?

Suddenly I feel like sharing.

(visions of Kirk after Spock just admitted to "a guess")

Why, mori,..that's amazing!

"Brother thought he was giving the person at the other end a severe revving, until the phone rang."

He wasn't talking to himself. He was rehearsing.

Click to expand...

Or maybe he has a second line.

I would think that this would result in a tone being heard in the ear piece. Do they make phones that give the full volume ring when your ear is supposed to be right up against it?? When the original "portable" phones came out ..they almost immediately had to put warning stickers/disclaimers on them since people would just put them to their ear and get a 120db blast from the speaker. They had to be trained to push the button/move the switch before putting it to their ear.

It WOULD be kinda funny if he did indeed have a second line. It would kinda be like that scene in Serpico in the bathroom with the light out. He could deny it all he wanted to ..and no one would believe it.

Another oddity that I can't really figure out is text messaging. I have a family plan ..and, for some odd reason, my youngest daughter's best friend decided to text her one day. It mushroomed into 250 text messages in one month ..and 450 the next month.

@ $0.15/text message, you can imagine the conversation that we had about this. WITEF would justify sending an average of 30 text messages a day when a conversation of 2 or 3 minutes would work? I really wonder how much money people waste on totally senseless stuff like this. I got a $5/month (on her phone only) for 250/month. I told her that 8 text messages a day should be enough for any bimbo like activity.

oilyriser · Sep 9, 2007

A text message might use 300 bytes of data vs. a minute of audio which is easily 60kb, yet the text messages are more expensive.

Have you ever experienced unintended voice activated dialing?

Benzadmiral · Sep 9, 2007

These little pocket phones are nothing more than toys. Half the time when someone calls me, he's in a noisy place and the phone picks up every background grunt and squeal and bus roar. The other half, the phone clips off the first syllable in the speaker's sentence and the last word, as if it were too lazy to get with the program and just transmit sounds already like regular phones.

Miss Linda gave me one for Xmas last year. When I found out the minutes expire and have to be renewed every 90 days, for something I'm likely to use once in that time, I stuffed it in a box at home.

moribundman · Sep 9, 2007

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Half the time when someone calls me, he's in a noisy place and the phone picks up every background grunt and squeal and bus roar.

It's called an alibi.

GROUCHO MARX · Sep 9, 2007

I'm in a stall at a public restroom (sorry mori, I HAD to go), and the guy in next stall MAKES a phone call!

This is how bad it's become.

Oldmoparguy1 · Sep 9, 2007

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I'm in a stall at a public restroom (sorry mori, I HAD to go), and the guy in next stall MAKES a phone call!

This is how bad it's become.

It's called multitasking.

At home I can do #2 while reading and doing phone calls.

Ever have someone call, you put in on the speaker and while talking, he flushes?

Yak, yak, yak...

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