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doulamomma
Citizen
Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 1174
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 12:14 pm: | 
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Ignore this if it seems like you've already said all there is to say about rude cell phone behavior...I really just need to vent
Just back from a Maplewood nail place: While there, this very loud woman bursts in the door and barks "Manicure & pedicure" while still keeping her phone to her ear. She is seated for a pedicure right behind where I am sitting. She has one of those old-fashioned phone rings & it's set on super-loud. She proceeds to get approx. 11 calls during her pedicure (seems she is having some contracting work done, and the dishwasher will be installed today, thank God!)..in spite of continuous calls, she put her phone away each time so that it took her about 4 rings to answer each time. And every call was the same - booming "hello!" and then the whole "What? What?! I can't hear you, yes, yes, OK...well"; perhaps the best: "Relax? I can't relax - maybe that's my problem".
The icing on the cake: she turned to the woman sitting next to her and said, "Thank God for cell phones - I'd be lost without mine - I'd never get anything done!"
I thought my head would explode, yet I (stupidly?) said nothing - I just wanted to get away. Don't know whether to be more angry at the totally self-absorbed woman who clearly just goes through life like this & wasn't even aware that she was out of line OR the nail place for not saying something to her. I think I may mention to them that they might consider posting a "please consider others when taking calls on your cell phone"...I understand that we all need to be reached at times, but good gracious.
Rant over. |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 4491
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 12:28 pm: |
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It's never too soon for another cell phone rant. Some people's rudeness knows few if any bounds, but maybe some day these rants will get through to them (or the New Jersey Transit conductors). |
Meandtheboys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 3171
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 12:30 pm: |
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Sounds like you had a lovely, relaxing morning away from the soon to be 2-year-old and the almost 5 1/2-year-old!
I'm really surprised you didn't say anything. That doesn't seem like you. |
jet
Citizen
Username: Jet
Post Number: 1050
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 12:44 pm: |
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The hell with the rant . When are they going to put the tower up @ the CC so I can use my cell phone ? |
doulamomma
Citizen
Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 1176
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 12:55 pm: |
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Meand,
Mostly you are right, but the whole think was just so absurd & I sort of didn't trust myself not to be nasty - and I avoided going there mostly for myself - some people are so obtuse that I consider them a lost cause...
On the way home, there was a linguist of some sort on WNYC talking about new words & it seems the favored word for a cell-phone abuser is "Yak-A**"! |
Rastro
Citizen
Username: Rastro
Post Number: 2543
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 1:00 pm: |
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I was sitting on the train today next to a gentleman who took the middle seat in a three seater. I now know the following about him:
-His name
-His work username and password
-Where he works (he's an equity analyst)
-What equities he covers
-His wife's name
-His kids' names
-His wife (or a friend - I couldn't quite catch that) drinks too much wine until 3am
-Where his daughter goes to school
-Where his nanny is from
Do people really not get that they are in a public place, spewing all this personal info? |
Oldstone
Citizen
Username: Rogers4317
Post Number: 619
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 1:15 pm: |
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i truly think people like that are ego-maniacs and think that people overhearing their cellphone conversations will be as impressed with them as they are with themselves. little people. |
Rastro
Citizen
Username: Rastro
Post Number: 2544
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 1:39 pm: |
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Given the conversation he was having, I don't think he was trying to impress anyone.
I don't like having personal conversations in my office, and this guy was giving out personal inforation to the 20-odd people within 10 feet that could hear eveyone word he was saying. |
Ligeti Man Meat
Citizen
Username: Ligeti
Post Number: 627
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 2:12 pm: |
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Electronic "communication" gadgets have played a huge role in the destruction of a basic concept of a civilized society: the distinction between public vs. private space.
Thanks to these devices, a lot of self-absorbed people navigate public space in the belief they are surrounded by a bubble.
Reject self-absorbed, cellphone yakking, nail polishing, SUV driving narcissists in 2006. |
Robert Livingston
Citizen
Username: Rob_livingston
Post Number: 1713
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 2:16 pm: |
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Yeah, no one was ever self-involved, narcissistic and publicly annoying before cell phones. |
CLK
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Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 1991
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 2:19 pm: |
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Rastro,
Fully armed with his company name, e-mail login and password info - you should be able to get us all some good investment tips. (or at least take advantage of them yourself.)
smiley to show I'm not really serious: --> 
Or you could call his company anonymously, and share this info with them - that should be enough to get him fired.
That is, if you feel like teaching him a lesson.
It really is astonishing ... |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12812
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 2:31 pm: |
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Or maybe you could just transfer his assets to someplace more convenient.
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sac
Supporter
Username: Sac
Post Number: 3209
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 3:03 pm: |
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Another likely side effect of all this public rudeness is that there will be some sort of regulations put in place to ban all conversations. Then, those of us who are more circumspect, but do occasionally need to use our phones, will be punished along with the real offenders. |
Rastro
Citizen
Username: Rastro
Post Number: 2551
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 3:08 pm: |
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I don't feel the need to get this guy fired. I'm not angry with him - just astonished that he had no problem divulging all this info in public.
As for transfering his assets, I don't have that info yet. But I'll look for him tomorrow - maybe I can get his bank account info!
Hmmm.. stock tips... let me see... His company does seem to have webmail (OWA). just checked https://webmail.<hiscompany>.com and there's a site. Do I dare check his email? <evil laugh> |
Virtual It Girl
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 4137
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 3:11 pm: |
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Doula, yesterday I was in a Maplewood nail place too, with an elderly woman was next to me who was simply nasty. Her feet had these gigantic callouses or corns on each toe. At one point, she said "I need to make a phone call" (she was engaging in the menage a trois of the nail salon, where you get a mani/pedi at the same time) and said quite loudly into the phone "he doesn't know what he's doing and he didn't even remove my callouses."
I really, really had to stop myself from suggesting she might want to see a podiatrist to remove the extra appendages from her toes and feet.
On one hand, I could relate to her because I have been in situations where I sat in the pedicure chair and the person helping me didn't know how to deal with my toes. On the other hand, I HOPE it's taken much more for me to be as rude as she behaved.
(And yes, I know her last name because she called her pharmacy for her medications but they weren't ready.) |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12817
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 3:13 pm: |
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I'm forming a theory. We don't want to hear personal details that were tossed out unintentionally and not directed at anyone present. It makes us uncomfortable. But I think it would be OK if stranger A and stranger B exchanged personal information on the street corner while you, A, and B all waited for a traffic light.
Why the difference?
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Rastro
Citizen
Username: Rastro
Post Number: 2552
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 3:30 pm: |
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Tom, to me it's the transiency of the contact. On the street corner, you're only in cpnact with that person for a short period. On the train, it's hlaf an hour of personal details.
But I do see what you mean. Perhaps it's also the volume of the conversation. Had the guy been talking to the person next to him, I don't think it would have been quite as loud. |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12822
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 3:33 pm: |
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I buy both of your points, Rastro.
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Zet
Citizen
Username: Zet
Post Number: 10
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 3:49 pm: |
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Rastro:
Yes! Login and email him a note from his own account saying: Friendly reminder from a fellow NJ Transit commuter: Stop giving out email login info over the cell phone!
Just kidding. That would probably be some crime but truly, all you need from him is his SSN and his mother's maiden name and you're all set to steal his identity.  |
Purplebug
Citizen
Username: Purplebug
Post Number: 99
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 4:11 pm: |
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I don't like hearing personal details period, it is just more annoying when it is over a cell phone due to volume. I find it all nauseating when people talk loudly about their personal business. I don't want to know how your sex was last night, and I don't want to hear about diarrhea problems. Well if I do, I can read about it on MOL, but just walking down the street. NO!!! I may be thinking of something to eat, why would I want to hear this stuff. I just find it weird that people want to talk so much about personal business out in public. Maybe I am too private a person. |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 4493
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 4:15 pm: |
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I think Zet is on to something. It might shut at least one of them up for a little while. |
Rastro
Citizen
Username: Rastro
Post Number: 2560
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 4:36 pm: |
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Tom,
It might. But as Zet says, it actually is a crime. And since I''m at my employer, I don't want to risk them seeing that.
It's bad enough they might be seeing me spending so much time on MOL... |
doulamomma
Citizen
Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 1181
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 4:53 pm: |
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VIG,
Yuck! That just get's me thinking about that whole other pedicure thread from long ago...
She sounds like a gem! |
Ligeti Man Meat
Citizen
Username: Ligeti
Post Number: 628
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 5:07 pm: |
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Why can't we all just clip our own toenails?
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BGS
Citizen
Username: Bgs
Post Number: 713
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 5:17 pm: |
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Ligeti-It is not about the toenail clipping for me!!!! My feet feel so incredible after I have had a pedicure...I feel like I am walking on air...seriously!
If you have never tried it, I would surely suggest it!!! But...this is thread drift...
Ciao!
B |
Ligeti Man Meat
Citizen
Username: Ligeti
Post Number: 629
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 5:32 pm: |
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I just wish I could buy a silly USB cable or some office supplies in the Village somewhere instead of having 4 choices for this week's pedicure. |
doulamomma
Citizen
Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 1182
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 5:33 pm: |
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Look Ligeti, I can see living off the grid or whatever - avoiding technology & all that...but come on! You're free to clip your own, though... |
doulamomma
Citizen
Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 1183
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 5:34 pm: |
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though I guess there wouldn't be need for a USB cable of the grid... |
Crazy_quilter
Citizen
Username: Crazy_quilter
Post Number: 216
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 6:51 pm: |
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i was at the south orange library for a story time for toddlers. The librarian asked that the grown-ups stop talking so the children could hear. i could hear one person continuing to talk loudly. I looked around and couldn't see two people engaged in conversation so couldn't figure out who it was. You guessed it. In the front row was a nanny, facing the librarian talking into her earpiece (what do you call it?), no phone in sight. It looked like she was talking loudly to herself. I couldn't believe she contined talking, she probably wasn't even aware she was at a story time. |
doulamomma
Citizen
Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 1199
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 8:05 pm: |
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charming...I witnessed the same thing in a movie not long ago... |
Ligeti
Citizen
Username: Ligeti
Post Number: 635
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 7:22 am: |
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Some people just need to be someplace else instead of where they are. |
Bob K
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 10912
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 4:20 pm: |
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A couple of weeks ago on the train home from Hoboken a guy in the next seat kept talking about a woman in tremendous detail. At first I thought he was talking about his girlfriend and if they should get married. It turned out he was a lawyer and he was talking to one of his partners about a woman lawyer they were thinking about hiring out of the Queens Prosecutors office. This one was kind of interesting at least.  |
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