Does this bother anybody else?

[angel_luv]

But is that really the expectation in a retail store? I have never been to a bookstore expecting it to be a quiet place to read. They even have music playing in there so it's not set up for serious concentration or study. I go there to shop. Then, I take my book someplace that is quiet to read it. If I expect a quiet place to read for free, I go to an academic library and find a quiet spot upstairs in a corner away from activity.

As I said, I don't like cell phones, but I don't think one can expect any lower level of cell phone activity simply by virtue of what is being sold in that store. I think a bubble bath is relaxing, but I don't expect a quiet place to take one in Bath and Body Works where I shop for my bubble bath.

You are absolutely right, Ploto. While I greatly wish people would leave their cell phones out of Barnes and Nobles ( and out of lot of places actually.), I know it is an unreasonable expectation.

So I have learned to go to Barnes and Nobles at odd hours when it is most likey to be quiet in there. Also, I browse a lot in the store so it is easy for me to navigate away from undesirable noise in most cir stances.

I think though that cell phones are a sad testament to how busy our society has become. I don't like in my life how I feel obligated to be available every moment of the day. ( It is not as if I have kids or am so important to my job that issues could not be resolved without me. )
That is why I have gotten into the habit of purposefully ignoring my cell phone for a few hours at least every day.

The one exception to this is that I have a special ring tone for my husband, Bo, so that I can always be available to him.

[Bigzax]

if you can't handle the public without losing it, then stay home.

[Gino]

I'm in a Barnes and Noble with a big-ass pile of magazines in their sitting sections, as is my wont. And this asshole in the chair next to me is jabbering away on his cellphone for well over 5 minutes. Finally I can't take it anymore so I get up, say "GOD INGDAMMIT, NOBODY WANTS TO LISTEN TO YOUR PHONE CONVERSATION!" and storm out. I realize that I have a bit of a temper, but I consider his behavior anti-social and rude.

Totally! Its like those people who dont stand for the national anthem. Some people just have zero class.

[BadOdor]

Totally! Its like those people who dont stand for the national anthem. Some people just have zero class.

lol gino's vagina still hurts about that.

[PM5K]

Please don't ever come to a GTG.....

[Blake]

Hey, all you cellphoners, I'm going to sit on the hood of your car and read...after all, there's no sign there that says not too.

funny, I just came out of BnN today to find some dude sitting on the hood of my car drinking dr. pepper.

As the cops were hauling him off, he kept screaming that there was no sign saying he couldn't sit there.

what a ing idiot.

[z0sa]

You ass clown.

you're a .

whoever called me an e-tough guy should refer to this guy's previous response for a textbook example.

[z0sa]

What a dried up piece of turd you are. You actually edited your post a day later to tell us that you work out 3 days a week. Feel free to try you?

um, no i didn't. i added way more information that was needed, so i edited it out. and i haven't edited it since this morning. go look on the page 3 you idiot "Last edited by z0sa; Today at 04:18 AM.."
you're all frazzled now because reality is, I wouldn't get close to "losing my cell phone against the wall" because you're a dumbass. you wouldn't even say a goddamn word no matter how loud I was talking.

and I will clarify that the guy was totally in the wrong for being loud and incessant for a long period of time, but I find that the exception to the rule because everyone does it (talk on their cell phone) and most like myself, are pretty quiet about going about our business.

[z0sa]

Well you better keep it to a minimum around me, cause I would check you real quick, and if you gave me any lip, you'd lose that phone.

[Tenacious D]

[koriwhat]

it's destiny... you know?