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Andrew was born in London, UK, raised in Toronto, Canada, and cavorted in Ohtawara, Japan for three years. He is married, has a son, a cat named Freddy and a dog named Shaggy (after the dudes in Scooby-Doo). He has over 35,000 comic books and a plethora of pioneer aviation-related tobacco and sports cards and likes to build LEGO dioramas. Along with writing for a monthly industrial magazine, he also writes comic books and hates writing in the 3rd person. He also hates having to write this crap that no one will ever read. He also writes an aviation blog: Pioneers Of Aviation ( https://av8rblog.wordpress.com/ ) - a cool blog on early fliers. He also wants to do more writing - for money, though. Help him out so he can stop talking in the 3rd person.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Talking On The Cell Phone While With A Friend

Do you know what  I hate?

I hate it when I see friends walking together but ignoring each other while they talk to other people on their cell phones.

How bloody rude is that? When did we become a society where the person we are with isn't worth talking to? And I'm not talking about married couples!

Seriously... take a good look the next time you are at the mall... or are people watching on the street. Check out how many times you will spot, for example, two women walking side by side - friends - who are on their cell phone chatting with someone else.

Too often.

I've had the displeasure of walking behind such 'friends', and listening to the most inane conversations going on between each woman talking to someone else on the phone.   

Why even bother hanging out with your friends if you are going to ignore them?

Think about it... you are showing the person you are with that they do not matter as much as the person you are chatting with on the phone. It's like call-waiting. Excuse me, I'm going to see who is calling me. Screw that... you have voice-mail.  

This whole ignoring of the person you are with is wrong. And people who do that are incredibly rude. It's as rude as being stuck in the middle seat on a bus, train or plane and having the two outside people carry on a conversation with each other as though you do not exist.

People! Turn off your damn cell phones and talk to the person you are with. Chances are pretty good you won't bump into other people (me) or get hit by a bus.

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Do you know what I hate?

I hate people talking on the cell phone while with a friend. 
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 15, 2012 at 12:04 AM

    That's why I will always find cellphones useless. Just makes people more disconnected with each other despite being "connected". They may as well slap a BFF tag on that contraption honestly.

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  2. diego.aAugust 1, 2012 at 8:53 AM

    I completely agree w/ Anonymouse. The cellphone is the BFF of the Moron Majority. They honestly think they are "keeping in touch" and feel more "connected".

    Which is why the situation is going to get even worse. Vietnam and Japan are examples of this: people going around, constantly texting each other WHILE hanging out w/ each other. So at least they will shut up. But, only because they are such big blabbermouths, they outgrew vocal comm. and used something more scalable, like texting. That is their heaven: 10-20 diff. conversations at the same time.

    People want huge quantity, w/ little quality. Food, news, friends, etc.

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 10, 2013 at 9:37 AM

    No!!!!!

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