Cell phone use should be banned on buses.

[Darth_Kitten]

Just sayin'.....yelling into a phone about asinine topics in an enclosed space is a terrible thing.

I don't care to know you have to report to somebody telling them you are going to be home in 2 minutes.

[Maineiac]

1. The two commercial lines here

Grayhound and Concord Trailways both ban cell phones. I don't ride the city bus so I can't say what their policy is.

[Little Wing]

2. No, cell phones while ordering takeout should be banned

They don't have kung po, honey, what else

Do you have orange chicken

yes, they have orange chicken

:nuke:

[bigwillq]

3. Not unless you're going

to pay the bill for those people.

If not, you have no right when and where to tell a person to use their phone.

[Darth_Kitten]

5. I have EVERY right to express my opinions about people acting....

like assholes.

I like the cell phone idiot who got off the bus so engrossed in his conversation he nearly forgot his little kid.

Why would I want to pay their bill? Let them buy ME a buspass......

[bigwillq]

6. You're right

you do have every reason to express your opinion and I have every reason to express mine. :)

[Darth_Kitten]

8. You would have to agree that cell phone use is getting beyond...

ridiculous? Like, come on!! :)

I'm on the phone all day at work, I don't want to listen to annoying people with GRATING voices talking about stupid things on the bus!!!

[bigwillq]

10. I don't think it is.

It's just the natural progression of that type of technology.

A bit different situation but I feel it's like that with laptops. People bring those everywhere too.

I have no problem with them or with cell phones.
If a person owns it, then they should use them wherever and whenever they want to.

[Kutjara]

12. Sure, let them use them wherever they want to,

like cinemas, theatres, hospitals, libraries, churches, right? I mean, the rights of cellphone users trumps those of everyone else in the world, right? Nobody else has anything better to do than listen to some asshole bellow bullshit, because the simple act of buying a cellphone makes the purchaser a superior human being with greater rights than anyone else, right?

Wrong.

[bigwillq]

13. It doesn't bother me.

I am guilty of it at times.

I don't mind it. I see I am in the minority here.

That doesn't bother me either.

[Kutjara]

17. So, when you go to the movies,...

...you have no interest in hearing the dialog? You're perfectly happy to listen to the conversation of the person sitting next to you rather than the film you've paid ten bucks to see? Or if you're at a play, it's just dandy for members of the audience to compete with the cast members on stage?

I'd say you're in a minority of one.

[bigwillq]

19. I normally don't do it in a movie theater.

Unless, I forget to turn off my phone and someone calls and then I answer and tell them I need to call them back.

I've never been in a movie where a person has carried on a conversation, heck you're right, we paid our money and we better damn well watch the movie.

But if someone needs to be on the phone for a few brief seconds then I am cool with it.

My b/f does that sometimes if his daughter is over someone's house or home alone and she calls to check in. Then I don't mind if the man does that because he is checking up on what his daughter is doing.

Ok, I am logging off now. I am about to go get myself ready for a night on the town. I am sure you will miss me.

:P

:)

[Kutjara]

21. For an example of cellphone hell, visit China.

There, people routinely use cellphones everywhere (movies, plays, libraries, restaurants). You can barely hear the dialog in movies because half the audience is babbling on the phone. Everywhere you go, it's chatter chatter chatter. After a week of that libertarian hell, I'd defy you to still believe what you wrote.

[Darth_Kitten]

14. No, people shouldn't be able to use whatever they want......

when they want to....... What's wrong with people putting some simple consideration before their right to use things?

I'm tired also of nearly being picked off on the road because some stupid driver is chatting on their cell phone. But they have some gadget and they have a right to use it?

Uh-uh.......

[bigwillq]

15. Yes because they are still legal.

In some states, it is illegal to be on the phone and driving at the same time unless you use the hands free devise, which I always use.

Don't blame the consumers.

Blame the big corporations and the lawmakers.

[Kutjara]

18. So anything that is legal we should do?

Consideration, manners and common sense are irrelevant. If it's legal, do it. Well, I guess I know why we live in a country full of idiotic laws and regulations aimed at preventing the kind of boorish and idiotic behavior that any sensible person wouldn't consider undertaking in the first place.

Just because something is legal, it doesn't mean it's right.

[bigwillq]

20. You are right about that.

Just because something is legal, it doesn't mean it's right.
(That part anyway)

But if it is legal...then yes we have the right to do it.

[Deja Q]

4. Maybe when driving, while shopping & at work when the coworker does nothing but chatter & whispering

But on the bus? Isn't that why they made portable game systems?

[greatauntoftriplets]

7. Years ago, when cell phones were pretty new...

and I had one.

My mother was in the cardiac intensive care unit...I'd spent the previous evening at the hospital in the ER with her. And was heading to work the next morning...tired as hell.

I had car trouble on the way to the commuter train station. Finally got there, and called the CICU from the train to find out if she was still alive or what. People on the train bitched at me for making the phone call to the nurses' station. Which was totally not deserved. My mother was doing well and had had a cardiac pacemaker put in during the night.

I no longer commute by train, but if I had to use my cell phone to make a call like that again, I would not hesitate for a moment. I don't use the phone unless I have to.

But there are times....

[Darth_Kitten]

11. I don't have any problem with people using them for valid reasons.....

:)

[greatauntoftriplets]

16. What pissed me off...

was that I WAS using the damn phone for a very valid reason. And that they were pissed off at me for some stupid reason.

Now the same people are probably using their cell phones for reasons that are a lot less valid.

The reaction blew me away.

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

9. Well, I call when I get on to let my dad to know that I'll need picked up.

I don't always make the same bus after school, so I need to call him when I get on so he can get me at the stop. If I didn't have to call him, I wouldn't.

[Orangepeel]

22. is it worse than people talking to each other on buses?

cell phone use should be banned where ever people aren't supposed to be talking (libraries, movie theaters, etc.), but I don't think most people are much louder on cell phones than in person anymore.