Mobile phone etiquette
From Slashdot Mobile Story | The Cell Phone Has Changed — New Etiquette Needed
Sometimes, you just gotta get down in the gutter (Score:5, Interesting)
by hyades1 (1149581) <hyades1@hotmail.com> on Monday January 25, @06:47PM (#30897934)
While taking the bus to work, I endured about 10 minutes of non-stop, high-volume chatter about matters far too intimate for public exhibition. I finally reached my limit…couldn’t concentrate to read, had forgotten my headphones, couldn’t ignore the conversation (which was carried on at a near-shout). The offender was clearly a Jerry Springer fugitive, and if she wasn’t a star of that People of WalMart site, her attire was such that it’s only a matter of time. The faces of the other transit riders made it obvious I wasn’t the only one offended by a conversation that included the woman’s current sex life, how she enjoyed suckering her sister into babysitting so she could go clubbing, and some lovely racial stereotyping about her child’s absentee father.
I pulled out my cell phone and began to carry on a fake conversation about the woman. I’ll admit that I was pretty far over the top, but I was also seriously pissed. The other riders caught on pretty fast and started laughing. For at least a couple of minutes the woman was oblivious. Gradually, though, it sunk in…I think it was when I mentioned how lucky she was that the bus came along before that Inuit with a harpoon caught up with her.
She wound up cursing at me, but that was fine. A lot of people were laughing at her, which was exactly what I had in mind. She got off the bus pretty quickly after that. I don’t know if it was her stop; I hope not.
I wouldn’t recommend this course of action except under ideal circumstances, but I don’t regret it.
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