Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Cell phone etiquette: what's it going to take?

The 7:47 was actually on-time this morning out of Framingham and once past West Natick it was clear sailing on the express to Back Bay. The train was humming along the rails, people were settled in, mostly dozing, one or two were working quietly on laptops and paperwork at the center tables. Then...

...one seat behind the tables some guy gets on his phone. He's excited. He's agitated. He's got one of those voices that needs modulating. Who knows what he's upset about because he talkng away in a foreign language, but that's not the point. In English it would have been just as annoying, it's just that his fellow passengers would have known probably how trivial the conversation was.

We are long past the point of people not knowing that loud conversations in public places on cell phones are rude and annoying. We get a reminder every time we see a movie. Blogs like this are pandemic. What the heck is it going to take?

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