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Alleygater
Citizen
Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 1407
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 9:37 pm: | 
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I'm on the jitney and this guys phone starts tweaking. Now he knew it was rude, because he turned down the speaker volume as low as it could go and was whispering into the thing as discretely as he could. BUT... the tweak sound is NEVER lowered. It's screaming so everyone can hear it. I had my headphones on listening to my iPod and I could still hear the tweaking. Now I'm thinking to myself, we are waiting for the Hoboken train to arrive, and our driver isn't even in the jitney. This guy could just walk outside and have his conversation and not bother 15 of us. But no. He kept it short mabye a few minutes but c'mon.
Couldn't the guy have just as easily said, "dude, I'm really sorry, let me call you right back on a regular line because I'm in a public environment and tweakin isn't polite right now." Or better yet, couldn't he just not pick up the phone and turn off the ringer? Or couldn't he pick it up and say, I'll call you right back after he got home?
Should I have said something? I wanted to say something. |
las
Citizen
Username: Las
Post Number: 1355
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 10:11 pm: |
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I think it would have been totally acceptable for you to suggest he step outside to finish his talk and that you'd be happy to hold his seat.
I've been on the jitney where as soon as one person (usually me) asks the person to use their quiet voice everyone else mumbles in agreement. You'd have had backup. |
AntoninaKC
Citizen
Username: Antoninakc
Post Number: 221
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 10:14 pm: |
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Whats "tweakin" ??? |
argon_smythe
Citizen
Username: Argon_smythe
Post Number: 793
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 11:53 pm: |
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It's that tweak-tweak sound. That's called tweakin'.
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Crazy Guggenheim
Citizen
Username: Crazyguggenheim
Post Number: 881
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 7:54 am: |
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Call me crazy, but I miss phone booths. |
doulamomma
Citizen
Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 1269
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 8:44 am: |
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call me crazy, but I thought this was going to be about meth addicts or something! |
blackcat
Citizen
Username: Blackcat
Post Number: 516
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 11:08 am: |
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I believe that feature can be turned off. Most people must feel that it makes them sound important so they leave it on. |
Hoops
Citizen
Username: Hoops
Post Number: 971
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 12:12 pm: |
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Chirping. |
Alleygater
Citizen
Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 1412
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 1:43 pm: |
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Sorry, I think Hoops is right, it's "chirping".
F-in Chirpers! |
argon_smythe
Citizen
Username: Argon_smythe
Post Number: 795
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 1:45 pm: |
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Chirping is different. It goes chirp-chirp. This is about tweaking.
Please stay on topic. |
red
Citizen
Username: Redy67
Post Number: 5174
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 6:42 pm: |
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What the **** is tweaking? or chirping for that matter? Am I not as important as others because I don't know?????? |
red
Citizen
Username: Redy67
Post Number: 5175
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 6:43 pm: |
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What the h*LL is tweaking? or chirping for that matter? Am I not as important as others because I don't know??????
where are my little dots.... |
doulamomma
Citizen
Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 1275
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 6:48 pm: |
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red - I am also unimportant, I guess - I have no idea what the chirping is... |
ril
Citizen
Username: Ril
Post Number: 507
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 7:38 pm: |
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I think it's the nextel walkie-talkie feature. the phone makes a chirp noise at each end of the conversation. |
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