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DEL.ICIO.USWireless etiquette
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Cartoon by Jim Sizemore, cartoonstock.com
It would be great if we didn’t need to be reminded that “libraries, theaters, museums and houses of worship are no place for a ringing phone.”
But how many times have you been privy to someone’s conversation against your will at a place where cell phones should be silenced or turned off?
With buzzing Blackberries and chirping cell phones threatening to erode what’s left of our collective civility, here to save us from ourselves is AT&T’s Be Sensible campaign.
At a glance, the campaign’s advice, like leaving the table to answer a phone call or speaking quietly when others are around, seems like such common sense that no one would need to hear it.
And yet … we all have a story to tell about a worship service or live performance being interrupted by someone’s ringing or yapping.
What’s yours?
Comments
By cara
October 1, 2008 8:48 AM | Link to this
I walked into the front of Steinmart and could here a woman on the phone in the back of the store. When I finally made it to the back of the store I told her that I thought her flight to Canada would probably be delayed and that she had no chance in hell of getting an aisle seat. Then I said that it sounded like her husband was a complete idiot and that her daughter wasn’t really going to study at a friend’s house. She would probably going to have sex with her boyfriend. the woman looked stunned because she felt that I was eavesdropping on her phone conversation. She immediatley hung up the phone and left the store.