Re: OT - "Teen Ringtone" can other adults hear it?


"Cathy Weeks" <kathyspam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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xkatx wrote:
I heard it fine, it annoyed me more than I thought a cell phone ring
could,
and I really would break someone's phone if I heard it while out and
about.

I wouldn't break someone's phone, but I would start shouting at them if
they didn't answer it quickly. I am shocked at how uncomfortable that
ring makes me.

In the long run, no, I probably wouldn't just break someone's phone, but I
also know it would take all of me to hold back - that ring, for some reason,
really bothers me. I'd probably end up just giving someone a dirty look or
something LOL

Speaking of cell-violence, I witnessed a near-miss at a restaurant a
couple of years ago.

Three tables in close proximity, in a triangle-shaped configuration.
Table one had a young woman (I'm guessing in her late teens or early
20s) and her parents. Table two had my husband and I and then
2-year-old daughter. Table three had a couple that looked to be on a
date. They looked to be in their mid to late 20s.

The girl at table one's cell phone rang. It was a fairly annoying ring,
but she answered it promptly, and proceeded to have a conversation,
though it wasn't long. It was enough that it made my husband and I
roll our eyes slightly and wish she'd talk a little more quietly.

In short, her cell-ettiquette (or lackthereof) was roughly average.
I've seen far worse cell behavior, and far better.

The guy at the next table waited for her to put her cellphone away,
then told her that if it rang again, he'd smash it for her. I don't
remember the whole thing, but the girl's dad told him to back off, and
the young man basically told him that he'd think nothing of attacking
them over it. Things calmed down soon. The couple at table 3 looked
quite sour for the rest of their meal. The family at table 1 looked
ill-at-ease as well. And my husband and I were... flabbergasted. The
girl hadn't been *that* bad. My husband, though he hadn't appreciate
the cell-phone conversation either, told me later that he would have
stepped in - on the side of the girl's father, because he felt that the
young man was obnoxious - and crossed the line in threatening violence
without at least having *asked* her to turn it down, or off, of
whatever.

Ah, well...

Cathy Weeks

My phone, when out and about in certain places, is off or on vibrate only.
I know I have a few VERY annoying rings - when my mom calls from work or her
cell, it's set to ring like an annoying car alarm (my mom has issues with
her own car's alarm constantly going off and she has no clue how to turn it
off once it gets going - she tends to forget about the alarm being on and
just opens to door, sending the alarm screeching, so I figured no other ring
would be more appropriate to warn me my mother is calling...) When my dad
calls from work or his cell, it's Green Day's Boulevard of Broken Dreams
that plays - my dad, for some reason, is obsessed with this song... I have
the Hockey Night in Canada song for my youngest brother, for obvious
reasons, Diamonds from Sierra Leone when DH calls, a quick babbling about
sex when my one girl friend calls, Buzz Lightyear letting me know I have a
new text message and Pooh announcing I have voice mail... Yes, most all of
my normal songs or sounds are so annoying, but it is turned off or volume is
off at times - restaurants are one of those places where the volume is off.
Movie theatre is a place where the phone is turned off as well.
I witnessed a similar ordeal at the movie theatre a few years ago... It
started with a group of obnoxious teenagers - about 14-15 years old -
playing with one of those laser pointers on the screen during the movie.
Someone shouted out to knock it off. Kids kept doing that, and then had
decided to act like idiots with it, pointing the laser on noses, eyes,
random things on the screen and then making loud comments about it. Someone
else had yelled for them to cut it out, and then one started playing with a
cell phone. What I think was the original guy then told them to knock it
off before he knocks their heads off, and the theatre security was called in
after the guy got up and went to the kids, grabbed the laser pointer, threw
it on the ground and stomped on it. I, personally, was totally with the guy
as far as the group of kids went.
The security guy was on the man's side as well, as the kids were removed
from the theatre and the man stayed to obviously enjoy the show with the
rest of the people in there.
I wouldn't have gone over the edge with your case and the girl on the phone.
Again, I'd probably give a kind of dirty look and let it go with nothing
said or anything. If she had sat and talked on the phone at the table for a
while, talking about the cute guy in her math class, how sweet her new
boyfriend is, how fantastic that movie was the other night or started making
plans on the phone to head off to the mall, I might have said something, but
I probably wouldn't have caused a huge scene.


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