Woe is me! I slept late this morning because of my bloody cold. I've just finished my daily research which included reading the entire Atlanta Urinal and Constipation and checking out the many blogs I read. I've finished reading my mail. Now I have to write sumpin'. I have to write now because (Oh poor pitiful me!) I have to go to a free dinner and wine tasting tonight with the owner of Boony Doon winery. 'Tis a sad, sad life I sometimes lead.
So what can make me happy? Why don't I write about cellphones on planes. Don't we all look forward to that day?
Some organization did some research and asked people what modern invention was most essential to them. It turned out it was the cellphone. Arrrrggghhhh! I don't know about you, but I don't really like listening to other peoples' telephone conversations. I enjoyed that Superbowl commercial where the guy was on the phone in the convenience store and was using his cellphone and said, "You're being robbed!". The asshole deserved exactly what he got.
I almost got hit by some dipshit (and he was male) driving a ten ton SUV who blissfully ran a red light while talking on his cellphone. I was in a BMW Z3 so he would probably have crushed me.
Last year I was in a grocery line behind a father and his three unruly kids. He was on his cellphone. The kids were running wild. I wanted to snatch the phone out of his hands, throw it across the store, and tell him to pay attention to what he was doing.
I think restaurants should have cellphone sections. Put them in with the smokers. That way they could piss each other off.
Let's see. Now when we fly we have to put up with cramped seating, screaming babies, and little kids kicking the backs of our seats. As if that isn't bad enough, they're thinking of allowing people to talk on cellphones too? That's all I want on a long flight: some buttmunch sitting next to me talking on his cellphone for the entire flight.
If the airlines really want to give us customers a break, I have a solution. Do what they used to do with smokers. Let's have a cellphone section and a no cellphone section. And while they're at it, add to the cellphone section the screaming babies and the kids kicking the backs of our seats.
I'd pay a premium to fly on that airline.
Posted by denny at February 10, 2005 03:41 PMYo Denny, check for typos BEFORE the wine tasting.
There will never be cellphones on flights. Never. Security risk, doncha know.
Posted by: Steel Turman on February 10, 2005 06:07 PMI'm thinking this post must have been written after the wine tasting!
Posted by: Michele on February 10, 2005 08:38 PMI was wondering about that too. But typos or not, it's always a hoot to visit here. Never mind, Denny. We can read around the typos!! LOL
Posted by: Indigo on February 10, 2005 09:00 PMI think I fixed all the typos. Sorry.
Posted by: denny on February 10, 2005 10:17 PMCan't wait for the next wine-tasting post! *rubs hands gleefully, cracks knuckles*
--TwoDragons
Posted by: Denita TwoDragons on February 10, 2005 11:38 PMI agree with you on the phone in the car ,if I do talk on my phone I tell the person to wait till I can park my car, how hard is that? and I know people cant pull over if there on 85 or something like that so I dont even talk on phone on 85 or 78
Posted by: Pharaoh on February 11, 2005 04:31 AMAnd the airlines wonder why they're having so much financial trouble. Remember when flying was enjoyable, and you actually looked forward to a plane ride? These days, its just mass transit, and with the masses comes all their rude behavior. Ask the crew.
So instead of worrying about the 98 people on the plane who dont want to be bothered by the asshole on the phone, they're focused on how much money they can make off those 2 people who'll pay to use their cell phone. Another profit center thatwe all pay for in the end.
Posted by: daniel on February 11, 2005 12:40 PMI packed a pager for 20 years, hated it, only bought cell phones for the spouse and I to keep in touch and for security. Both of us use the phones sparingly and usually they are kept in conservative mode (off) unless we pre-arrainge their use. This annoys the rest of the tribe, but they can call us at home on the land line, leave messages etc. The cell phones are for our convenience not theirs. As for cell phones on aircraft, they already offer phone service, cell phones would only be an annoyance and a security risk.
Posted by: Jack on February 11, 2005 02:08 PMIf they allow use of cell phones on planes, I may have to buy an iPod, so I can sing along with my tunes. Loudly.
Posted by: oldcontroller on February 11, 2005 03:54 PMCell phone users on airplanes should be treated like cell phone users in hospitals.
They should be asked to go use the phone outside.
And I've run across two things even worse than a cell phone in a restaurant. People who have these two way radio things. Yeah, I wanna hear your expensive walkie-talkie blare out your entire conversation while I've trying to read or talk to my guest.
Posted by: Wayne on February 16, 2005 03:52 PM