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Author Message   thegoodsgt Citizen Username: Thegoodsgt Post Number: 402 Registered: 2-2002 Posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 1:26 pm:        You're talking on your cell phone in public when suddenly the person on the other end of the line stops responding. As an intelligent professional, you suspect your connection has been lost. How many times can you say, "Hello?" until you start sounding like an idiot? I suggest the threshold is two. I ask only because I heard someone walking behind me in Penn Station this morning say 'hello' seven (SEVEN!) times before he was convinced that his connection had been dropped.   Tom Reingold Citizen Username: Noglider Post Number: 2352 Registered: 1-2003 Posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 1:32 pm:        About three years ago, there was a cartoon in The New Yorker with a picture of a commuter train car. You could see three people, one in the car talking on a cell phone, one getting on the train and talking on a cell phone, and one getting off the train and talking on a cell phone. The three were saying, "I'm on the train." "I'm getting on the train." "I'm getting off the train." Tom Reingold the prissy-pants There is nothing   SoOrLady Citizen Username: Soorlady Post Number: 441 Registered: 9-2003 Posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 1:41 pm:        Well, if the guy had been in Maplewood 7 times is about right.... depending on how fast he was walking.... to go from a dead zone into reception and reestablishing his connection.