Terminalcoffee discussion

see the topic gus started on behavior. i have a comment on there about proper usage of cell phones, that is actually just common courtesy toward others.

people are so rude with their phones!

My comment for today is...phone bill topped 200 bucks. Bummer.

Gee Rachel there has to be a better plan out there for you.

I just lost my phone. Nobody call me. I'm assuming some teenager has it and is texting his friends in Sir Lanka right now.

Cell phones...EL DIABLO! AY DIOS MIO!!!

Cancel your phone RA.

Rachel wrote: "My comment for today is...phone bill topped 200 bucks. Bummer. "

Rachel you're definitely on the wrong plan. That or you use you phone excessively. I don't know. Don't listen to me.

SO MANY people these days are addicted to using their phones continuously. There is a whole generation of people who are seldom if ever alone with their thoughts, which in my opinion is totaly sad.

Wake up and see what's around you! Listen to the silence at least once a day!

I hate talking on the phone, and I loathe texting. I adore my phone, but I rarely use it to talk, rather I use it as my alarm clock, internet, and mp3 player.

My cell is my alarm clock and emergency contact reacher. Flat tire, GOT PHONE!

Otherwise meh. I dislike overhearing people's cellphone conversations on the train.

I wish I could be without a phone, and I never ever answer it. It's basically a vpice mail receptacle.
That said, I want an iPhone.

I want the internet on my phone, and apps, and games and google maps, and the ability to take pictures and upload them to facebook immediately. I want to text.

If we had a plan like that I'd cancel my internet service. But nooooooooo! We're thrifty and poor graduate students without a dollar to spare, so we're on the in-laws wireless plan, and the MIL canceled text for all of us after one unfortunate ad crossed her phone and charged her 3.95.

Someday, my friends, I'll grow up and have my own cell phone plan. Until then:

*rolls around in pile of student loan bills*

Aw. Sorry.

Yes you will!

I have to keep a cell phone on me at all times for work. I LOATHE cell phones. I loathe everything about them. I loathe texting being used as the ONLY means for communication most especially - several of my friends do that. I loathe getting spam calls. I loathe getting calls from "CALLER UNKNOWN." I hardly ever answer my phone. I always let the call go to vmx. I loathe vmx, too.

I would be happy to live isolated from the world in a valley with no cellphone or television reception and limited internet capability. It's true.

Don't believe you.

Fine. Don't believe me. I don't care. :P

Heidi wrote: "Fine. Don't believe me. I don't care. :P"

Yes you do.

Do they deliver mail to that valley, Heids?

Yes. Well, I might have to drive to the PO box, and I could live with that.

I think I forgot to turn on my cellphone after getting off the plane last week...

Have any of you been in social situations where someone you're with continually glances at his/her phone when he/she thinks you're not looking? I finally just give up, like I did with my friend Ross yesterday, and said, "you gotta text somebody? Go ahead."

I remember being in Italy about 14 years ago, and everyone was using their cell phones, walking down the street, in restaurants, just everywhere all the time. And I thought it was just so bizarre. Yes, folks, only 14 years ago this phenomenon did not yet exist in the US. But like everything European, when the fashion arrives here 2 years later, we Americans take to it way beyond the Europeans. When I was in Paris this last Thanksgiving, I observed far less public cell phone usage than here.

I don't even have internet on my cell. Don't want it, don't need it.

Same here, Lori. Don't want internet on my phone, or a sh***y camera (well, it IS), or anything but phone-ness on my phone, thanks.

My cellphone is my: only telephone (no landline), time-piece, birthday reminder, phone book, alarm clock, practice test timer, digital camera (though a crappy one), pretend-distraction on the elevator saving me from awkward silence or smalltalk with strangers. Until they stopped making models with pre-installed games, it used to function part-time as a diversion when waiting to be picked up after school. Snake II, when the phones were still black-and-white and pixellated-like, back before the phase when flip-phones were cool....


I know there are huge downsides to owning one, and there are plenty of days when I'd like to smash mine against the wall, but I can't begin to list all the ways the cellphone makes my life so much easier.

See, Nools, what you and I are talking about is So Much More than a cell phone.

And Lori is right, Americans take something good and inflate it until it's an unsightly, rude, mess. Like the quasi teenagers I sometimes have to work with, who can't do a thing without the little bugger in their hand, while I'm trying to have an effing conversation!

Set that thing down and focus on me! I want to shout.

I understand multitasking, I really do. But either talk to me or text your friend. You can't do both.

It comes down to being "present in the moment." If you're not, then you should be. And if you must talk/type/read/text, excuse yourself. Acknowledge that you're ignoring the other people who are with you.

*high fives Heidi*

All true.

Randomanthony wrote: "I just lost my phone. Nobody call me. I'm assuming some teenager has it and is texting his friends in Sir Lanka right now."

Could be texting ME for all you know. Lol..or me texting. But I'm not in Sri Lanka...random..

Nools wrote: "My cellphone is my: only telephone (no landline), time-piece, birthday reminder, phone book, alarm clock, practice test timer, digital camera (though a crappy one), pretend-distraction on the eleva..."

Anyone around here uses their phone to Cam-whore in public when bored? (translation: take narcissistic pictures of themselves)

No. But I do have LOTS of pictures (and a few videos) of my dog on my phone. I did that before I went on vacation for a while and had to leave him with a friend. It helped. When i went to the east coast several years ago, I missed him terribly and was worried that he'd forget me.

He didn't. He puked on my bed after I got home instead. :)

Heidi wrote: "No. But I do have LOTS of pictures (and a few videos) of my dog on my phone. I did that before I went on vacation for a while and had to leave him with a friend. It helped. When i went to the e..."

My dog's black in colour, and I'm not a day person, so it's usually too hard to see my dog in the photos (the face). I like taking pics of my rabbits though!

SHARE!

Heidi wrote: "SHARE!"

Maybe later, bt one of em's on me profile pic!

Heh, I never knew bunnies did that kind of sprawl.

Lori wrote: "Heh, I never knew bunnies did that kind of sprawl."

LOL! They do when they're comfortable and don't feel threatened.

I use my cellphone quite a bit. I have an unlimited calling, texting, data plan. My mother just moved 1000 miles away, so we talk...a lot. But other than that, I'm not a big phone talking person.

My phone has a very good camera (for a phone), I believe it's 2 megapixels and it has a flash.
It's nice being able to take a picture and immediately send it to Facebook. I have my phone on me much more often than I have my big bulky camera, so if one of the kids does something special or if I see a big hot pink Cadillac truck with 500" rims and a Louis Vuitton paint job, I'm ready for it. And than I can send it straight to my mother or Facebook, respectively. Yes, I'm all about instant gratification.

After my husband's car was broken into and our "real" GPS stolen, we both use our phones as GPS.

My computer at work is a dinosaur, seriously. I often find that I'm better off going on the internet from my phone.

I prefer all of my books in their true paper goodness, but being able to also have them on my phone as well has been a total luxury.

I do not appreciate people who: drive while on their phone, text while talking to someone face to face or are just completely inept when it comes to manners and common sense as far as having and using a cellphone goes. When you're at the store or the doctor's office get off of your phone and show a little f---ing respect for the person helping you, you ass hat! Huge pet peeve!

I used to babysit for some girls who had a pet bunny. He bit my hand once. Bunny bites HURT! And he pooped everywhere. I remember wondering if bunnies could be potty trained.

Morgan wrote:"When you're at the store or the doctor's office get off of your phone and show a little f---ing respect for the person helping you, you ass hat! Huge pet peeve!"

*high fives Morgan*


Absolutely. The worst is the "finger holders" - as if indicating to the person that you're standing in front of that if they just wait one more minute, you'll be able to focus your attention on them. I would just skip those people at the coffee shop and go on to the person behind them.

Sally wrote: "Morgan wrote:"When you're at the store or the doctor's office get off of your phone and show a little f---ing respect for the person helping you, you ass hat! Huge pet peeve!"

*high fives Morgan*
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Ugh! People are so ridiculous, it sometimes amazes me that we are all the same species!

Heidi wrote: "I used to babysit for some girls who had a pet bunny. He bit my hand once. Bunny bites HURT! And he pooped everywhere. I remember wondering if bunnies could be potty trained. "

Bunnies are not very bright.

Larry wrote: "Heidi wrote: "I used to babysit for some girls who had a pet bunny. He bit my hand once. Bunny bites HURT! And he pooped everywhere. I remember wondering if bunnies could be potty trained. "

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HOW DARE YOU!

I didn't make 'em that way.

Um, can anyone tell me why people like to text rather than call? Is it just another way of constantly being in touch with everyone, like Twitter?

P.S. My cell is just for when I'm on the road.

I text when I'm in a situation that a phone call wouldn't be appropriate. Like watching a show on TV or shopping in a store or something like that.
Also when I'm at work and don't want people hearing my conversation.
Also when I have to communicate with someone who is annoying or impossible to get off the phone with.

Doni, I'm sure you're lovely, but I have to pick on that for a sec:

"My cell is just for when I'm on the road" is the reason I'm shackled to my cell. People want to know I have it "just in case" whatever, as if I'm some golden haired little red riding hood braving my way through a forest of wolves everytime I drive somewhere alone.
In my experience, the cell comes in less handy than the kindness of strangers if/when those situations arise.

I've broken down on Cameron Pass, no cell service. Pulled over in Utah, no cell service. Flat tire between Loveland and Ft Collins, cell battery dead. Many times I need to call some male to come "rescue" me and he doesnt' pick up his phone b/c he's outside raking leaves or something. So somebody pulls over, helps me out, and when I get to a gas station, etc, I call again.

I'm fine, and I've gotten by for nearly, what, 12, 15 years resisting this lemming-like need for a cell.

We are lemmings, aren't we?

So ... a lime perhaps?

I'm rather a bitch before my coffee. Excuse me.

Yes - it was great! I probably could/should have slept another 7 hours. :D