Cell Phone Pet Peeve

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  • juscallmeb
    juscallmeb Posts: 369 Member
    I have a friend who will spend the entire time we are hanging out - even at dinner, on her cell phone.
    I took her out to dinner for her birthday and she was texting all night. Finally I said, excuse me, but i am here with you, can you tell those people you are busy or that you're hanging with me or better yet, talk to them later. Note it was the day before her birthday.

    she does this to me all the time... dinner, coffee, when we go for walks once in a while, when she comes over to pick up something, she'll ring the doorbell and still be on the phone. -- really, please finish your call and talk to me when you're done.
    I had a friend who, over coffee, took 4 phone calls and several text messages. An hour of my life I won't get back.

    I would've just got up and left.

    i've learned from that and now i don't really hang out with her, sad but oh well.
  • juscallmeb
    juscallmeb Posts: 369 Member
    I have a friend who will spend the entire time we are hanging out - even at dinner, on her cell phone.
    I took her out to dinner for her birthday and she was texting all night. Finally I said, excuse me, but i am here with you, can you tell those people you are busy or that you're hanging with me or better yet, talk to them later. Note it was the day before her birthday.

    she does this to me all the time... dinner, coffee, when we go for walks once in a while, when she comes over to pick up something, she'll ring the doorbell and still be on the phone. -- really, please finish your call and talk to me when you're done.

    yikes. i would probably disown her eventually. my sister does this too, but unfortunately i can't disown her...:tongue:

    but she's getting better - mostly due to my apocolyptic b1tching on the matter and ignoring her while i read so she can see how it feels a bit...

    LOL
    I actually just don't hang out with her much anymore.. lol
  • chanstriste13
    chanstriste13 Posts: 3,277 Member
    I am so sick and tired of people that think they have to be accessible 24/7. Constantly texting.

    I will walk away from someone I am conversing with if they start texting.

    If someon comes into my man cave and starts texting while we are watching sports or a movie, I'll tell them to put their phone away.

    I spend a lot of time alone.

    we are like-minded this way!

    i don't favor dividing my time spent with people into fractions of minutes...boo! come spend time when you actually want to do so. it drives me nuts when i see people that *have* to answer their phone or respond to a text no matter what. now, if your wife is about to deliver, or your boyfriend is in surgery or something, sure, but when some random acquaintance texts, 'whatsup?', there's really no hurry is there?
  • chanstriste13
    chanstriste13 Posts: 3,277 Member
    I eventually turned around and said "Excuse me, but this isn't your living room."

    She looked pretty shocked, but she did hang up. Might have been one of my more b*tchy moments, but I got a lot of 'thank yous'.

    i'm adopting that phrase - great way to get your point across!
  • jls1661
    jls1661 Posts: 586 Member
    I have a friend who will spend the entire time we are hanging out - even at dinner, on her cell phone.
    I took her out to dinner for her birthday and she was texting all night. Finally I said, excuse me, but i am here with you, can you tell those people you are busy or that you're hanging with me or better yet, talk to them later. Note it was the day before her birthday.

    she does this to me all the time... dinner, coffee, when we go for walks once in a while, when she comes over to pick up something, she'll ring the doorbell and still be on the phone. -- really, please finish your call and talk to me when you're done.
    I had a friend who, over coffee, took 4 phone calls and several text messages. An hour of my life I won't get back.


    I hate this! I have a friend like this, except it's texting. I start calling her Hollywood and appologize for interupting her, she usually gets the hint. When she doesn't I steal her phone lol.
  • juscallmeb
    juscallmeb Posts: 369 Member
    I have a friend who will spend the entire time we are hanging out - even at dinner, on her cell phone.
    I took her out to dinner for her birthday and she was texting all night. Finally I said, excuse me, but i am here with you, can you tell those people you are busy or that you're hanging with me or better yet, talk to them later. Note it was the day before her birthday.

    she does this to me all the time... dinner, coffee, when we go for walks once in a while, when she comes over to pick up something, she'll ring the doorbell and still be on the phone. -- really, please finish your call and talk to me when you're done.
    I had a friend who, over coffee, took 4 phone calls and several text messages. An hour of my life I won't get back.


    I hate this! I have a friend like this, except it's texting. I start calling her Hollywood and appologize for interupting her, she usually gets the hint. When she doesn't I steal her phone lol.

    Hollywood. HAHA Love it. I'm going to use that. ;)
  • H_Factor
    H_Factor Posts: 1,722 Member
    yes.

    it also pisses me off when folks go up to the teller window at the bank without having first endorsed the back of their checks and filled out a deposit slip at the handy dandy counter for one to do that (before getting in line for the teller). and, yes, I do sneer at those folks.
  • jlzrdking
    jlzrdking Posts: 501 Member
    When I was working my second job at Linens and Things and people would come to the register on their phones I would always be extra chatty with them.

    Push credit cards

    Ask them how their day is

    Did you find everything OK?

    Oh you're going to love this..... towel your buying it's great!!!!

    The whole time they giving me that, can't you see I'm on the phone look.

    Sooo much fun
  • darklord48
    darklord48 Posts: 114 Member
    It irritates me more when I go in to the bathroom at work and there's someone in the stall, going to the bathroom, and talking on their phone. I think it's rude for the rest of us who aren't exactly public pee-ers!

    If it's a public restroom and not work I yell "Shut up, I'm trying to S***!"
  • ImKindOfABigDeal40
    ImKindOfABigDeal40 Posts: 807 Member
    It irritates me more when I go in to the bathroom at work and there's someone in the stall, going to the bathroom, and talking on their phone. I think it's rude for the rest of us who aren't exactly public pee-ers!

    The general manager at my last job used to talk to customers on his blue tooth headset while he was taking a dump. No lie!
  • mea9
    mea9 Posts: 561 Member
    I am so sick and tired of people that think they have to be accessible 24/7. Constantly texting.

    I will walk away from someone I am conversing with if they start texting.

    If someon comes into my man cave and starts texting while we are watching sports or a movie, I'll tell them to put their phone away.

    I spend a lot of time alone.
    Your own company's probably better:wink:
  • bregalad5
    bregalad5 Posts: 3,965 Member
    I have a friend who will spend the entire time we are hanging out - even at dinner, on her cell phone.
    I took her out to dinner for her birthday and she was texting all night. Finally I said, excuse me, but i am here with you, can you tell those people you are busy or that you're hanging with me or better yet, talk to them later. Note it was the day before her birthday.

    she does this to me all the time... dinner, coffee, when we go for walks once in a while, when she comes over to pick up something, she'll ring the doorbell and still be on the phone. -- really, please finish your call and talk to me when you're done.
    I had a friend who, over coffee, took 4 phone calls and several text messages. An hour of my life I won't get back.


    I hate this! I have a friend like this, except it's texting. I start calling her Hollywood and appologize for interupting her, she usually gets the hint. When she doesn't I steal her phone lol.

    My ex did that, well, still does it, only it's with Twitter. He rarely tweets, but he follows sports/news/politics on it like it's his job. Also emails on his cell... it's so annoying. Go for a walk, he will lag behind because he's reading or typing. Try to talk or have dinner? "Sorry, what was that? I was reading" Yet when I do it to get back at him, he gets pissed off. :explode:

    One of many reasons we're no longer together. Glad I'm not alone in getting frustrated about these things!
  • ImKindOfABigDeal40
    ImKindOfABigDeal40 Posts: 807 Member
    My ex did that, well, still does it, only it's with Twitter. He rarely tweets, but he follows sports/news/politics on it like it's his job. Also emails on his cell... it's so annoying. Go for a walk, he will lag behind because he's reading or typing. Try to talk or have dinner? "Sorry, what was that? I was reading" Yet when I do it to get back at him, he gets pissed off. :explode:

    One of many reasons we're no longer together. Glad I'm not alone in getting frustrated about these things!

    I swear my ex will accept the chip/cell implant once they allow it to be an acceptable surgery.
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