This story http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/201...ell-phone/ made it into the German online news http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,763575,00.html. She is a real global talker...

Ugh, the stereotypes! they make me cry.


The things that really annoy me about this sort of story, is how does that woman claim she was "disrepected" for having to be escorted off the train, when she talked 16 hours straight through the night, from 10PM through to 2 PM the next day.

How about respecting my right to sleep! This is why I sometimes consider becoming a hermit or buying my own desert island, because there are irrational crazy people like this all over the place and somehow by extreme luck, i don't get caught up in their nonsense.


.....with the added benefit of more train space.... but thats another story.

" She is a real global talker... "

Ahhh, yes--------The "mouth that roared"

I am quite pleased that she was removed from the train by police, and charged with disorderly conduct.

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Cellphones create disrespect by their nature. People feel a compulsion to discuss their most personal issues out loud in the presence of strangers while in restaurants, theaters and public places everywhere.

The question in my mind is why it took 16 hours to shut this person up.

MountainMan Wrote:The question in my mind is why it took 16 hours to shut this person up.

I respectfully decline to answer on the grounds that it may tend to incriminate me.

Ahhh yes. Don't those silly Amtrak Passengers know that we live in the Age of Intitlement!

The "I can do what-ever I want, when-ever I want, to whom-ever I want, regardless of how it may annoy others, inconvenience them, or other wise interfere with their right to enjoy a public or other wise common area in relative peace."

I have found the best way to combat this level of insolence from others is to call them on it. I've been pushed, stepped on and shoved out of the way so many times by rude and ignorant people that whenever I feel slighted by these clowns, I simply yell out, "EXCUSE ME?!, Was I in your way?" 9/10 they look like a deer caught in headlights and meekly reply, "sorry" as they sulk back to their place in line.

The real sociopaths will flip me the bird or yell an explicitive back. Because of course they have every right to trod on me and disrepect me as a human being, so who am I to call them on their bad behaviour.

Sounds like this woman fell in the later category. :evil:

tetters Wrote:The "I can do what-ever I want, when-ever I want, to whom-ever I want, regardless of how it may annoy others, inconvenience them, or other wise interfere with their right to enjoy a public or other wise common area in relative peace."

That reminds me, I need to figure out who is letting their dog crap in my yard without cleaning it up. And then I need to temper myself to not retaliate in disgusting fashion. As for cell phones, sometimes the best thing to do is make sure you let them know you were listening. For example, when they hang up, say something like "I sure hope your husband gets his medical problem taken care of."

Put up a sign:

FOUND - SEVERAL POUNDS OF DOG CRAP. OWNER MAY CALL TO PICK UP PROPERTY.

We don't have that problem out here in the mountains...

MountainMan Wrote:Put up a sign:

FOUND - SEVERAL POUNDS OF DOG CRAP. OWNER MAY CALL TO PICK UP PROPERTY.

We don't have that problem out here in the mountains...

EXCELLENT!!!!

16 hours I don't talk that much in a month..

nachoman Wrote:

tetters Wrote:The "I can do what-ever I want, when-ever I want, to whom-ever I want, regardless of how it may annoy others, inconvenience them, or other wise interfere with their right to enjoy a public or other wise common area in relative peace."

That reminds me, I need to figure out who is letting their dog crap in my yard without cleaning it up. And then I need to temper myself to not retaliate in disgusting fashion. As for cell phones, sometimes the best thing to do is make sure you let them know you were listening. For example, when they hang up, say something like "I sure hope your husband gets his medical problem taken care of."

I love doing that. Then they want to know why you're listening too.

Mike Kieran Wrote:Then they want to know why you're listening too.

Answer:---- I wasn't "listening", but it was loud enough that I couldn't,.. "not hear".

I still haven't gotten used to people walking down the street, talking to themselves, that's crazy!
( oh, :oops: they're not crazy, they're just "on the phone" )
( or....suffering from AHCDS----- Advanced Hyper- Conversational Dependency Syndrome )

Ignorance is Bliss --- Oh, to once again, be ignorant of everyone Else's phone conversations.

Quick !!!, someone invent a " Portable Personal Instant Phone Booth " !!----- one made of an alloy of GERN Flux, that would be 3% more sound deadening.

People that talk constantly on "fones" need to wear a casket over their heads. They're dead from the neck up.

That appears to be too true to put a smiley with it.

Lynn

Sumpter250 Wrote:

Mike Kieran Wrote:Then they want to know why you're listening too.

Answer:---- I wasn't "listening", but it was loud enough that I couldn't,.. "not hear".

I still haven't gotten used to people walking down the street, talking to themselves, that's crazy!
( oh, :oops: they're not crazy, they're just "on the phone" )
( or....suffering from AHCDS----- Advanced Hyper- Conversational Dependency Syndrome )

Ignorance is Bliss --- Oh, to once again, be ignorant of everyone Else's phone conversations.

Quick !!!, someone invent a " Portable Personal Instant Phone Booth " !!----- one made of an alloy of GERN Flux, that would be 3% more sound deadening.

My uncle used to work for a Swiss company and every once in awhile, he had to travel to Switzerland for business. On one trip, one of his cohorts invited him to take a train over the border into Italy to see something really funny. When they got off the train in Italy, my uncle saw what his friend was talking about. Cell phone companies had just come out with headsets, so seeing a bunch of Italians walking around talking to nobody in particular with their hands moving all over the place reminded my uncle of an insane asylum.

On that note, on my honeymoon in Italy, my wife and I took a tour from Rome to Pompeii (it's only 2 hours by bus). On the trip back to Rome, everyone was taking a nap, including the tour guide. I could hear the bus driver talking to someone, but not with anybody on the bus. I peeked around the seat in front of me to see the rear view mirror only to see that he had the cell phone up to his ear with his left hand while steering, shifting (Italian buses still use stick shift), and conversing Italian Style with his right hand in the air. Now that is skilled driving.

Ok I cant top Mikes story but I do have one related to this theme.

The school where I work [trying to maintain the place] is just near part of the main business district of Melbourne so we have people walking past all the time. Now one day I noticed this older middle aged Asian lady walking up and down beside the school talking on her mobile. I went into the workshop, did some things and headed out again 15 mins later, she is still there walking and talking on her phone. Half an hour later, I come back to see she is still there. One hour later, still there. Two hours later, still there. Finally after about two and a half hours she goes. Thats a lot of talking on a mobile in my book. I mean what the hell do you talk about in all that time? :hey:

Im glad Im not paying her mobile phone bill.

I still see her every week or two, walking slowly up and down and around the area, with the phone to her ear.

I prefer to check out the models coming for auditions over the road and laugh when the boys fall over while drooling at them. It happens. Serious.

Mark