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Name: MER82

Comment: True, no one wants to overhear private conversations or loud talking in quiet places--but half of the suggestions mentioned negate the purpose of having and using a cell phone!!!!!!!!!!

Name: Gemami

Comment: I've been waiting for this... there needs to be a class on cell phone etiquette because people are just down righ rude. I used to work with a woman who talked loudly, sometimes cursing out her husband, during working hours. We have become a culture of rude individuals.

Name: DOne

Comment: Personally I don't understand why people feel the need to always have their cell phone on. Personally, I don't always want people to have constant access to me. I like my downtime.

Name: cassie811

Comment: I strongly agree! I am so not interested in knowing someone else's personal business or anything they have to say during a telephone conversation. Folk today are just plain ignorant when it comes to cell phone use. If the call is more important than the transaction then take the call and come back to the transaction later.

Name: Kofi

Comment: what she did not mention is the casual carpool. In CA we have casual carpools where I pick up two other people from a bus stop so that we can all get to work faster on the highway carpool lane. There is an unwritten rule that people don't have conversations becasuse it distracts the driver and no cell phone use for the same reason. If one does receive a call, it is very short and to the point. Invariable there is always a young Black person who wants to violate the rule by having a long drawn out conversation that always includes major drama in my car. I have to remind them they are in close quarters in a car and we don't want to hear the intimate details of their lives. It seems there are some social protocols and equitticate(sp) that some of our black people don't get.

Name: Lolly

Comment: DOne, you took the words right out of my fingers! lol :o) People fuss at me for not being able to contact me sometimes and say "Why do you have a cell phone if you hardly ever turn it on?!!" My response is that I have it for emergencies and convenience. I don't have it so you can watch me leave the office and then call me 3 minutes later to tell me how these *()&@&%@(*&%(*& got on your nerves all day and spoil my "detox" ride home. It's also rude to service personnel and I hate that. Was in a grocery store with my sister and she was talking on her phone the whole time the lady was waiting on her. I told her that was really rude and stank of her. She walked away and the clerk thanked me for saying that and told me that she has occasionally short changed someone because they were talking and not paying attention. So then I had to minister to her about the foulness of that, but that's another story. lol Anyhoo, you haven't lived until you hear a young girl (looked about 18 or 19) talking about how "Keshawn put it on me good last night" while sitting behind me in the movie theatre. What were we there to see? The Passion Of The Christ. Now how's THAT for stank?!

Name: MrsPhoenix

Comment: LOL @ Lolly; girl that is jacked up!

Name: Samo_samo

Comment: This is an excellent column. Everyone with a cell phone should read this column. Most of it is common sense and common courtesy, but a lot of people don't have either one.

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