Originally Posted by
berryite LOL. What a silly response.
I actually believe the government shoud fix the roads and leave the rest of us alone. If this "despot" ran the world, you'd see the size of government shrink overnight.
I regret that you were not able to follow the logic of the post. Please allow me to introduce you to Messrs Cause and Effect. As cell phone misuse continues, more and more laws will be written to deal with the problems. Again, Mr. Cause meet Mr. Effect. If you don't wish this to happen and you are one of the boors who drives while text messaging or takes calls in theatres or does a variety of other obnoxious things in public with your cell phone, well then stop that behavior. Otherwise the effect is quite predictable ... more and more laws and more and more restrictions on where you can use your cell phone.
Cause = effect.
People 20 years ago started to tire of smokers' behavior. First came mild restrictions on the amokers. Then more and more restrictive rules. Then quarantine area. Finally today isolation status. If you are a smoker, your smoking bevavior is extremely limited as to where you can smoke. In a matter of years, we went from smokers who could smoke anywhere to smokers who can't smoke hardly anywhere. Think the comparison doesn't fit? Keep text messaging while driving and talking on phones in theatres and watch the laws and the restrictions follow.
Calling me a "despot" won't cure these ills. I'm just making predictions. But the signs are on the wall if you care to look at them.
I was in the library the other day. The ringers on my phone were all silenced. I had my BB on the desk that I was using and saw by the flashing light that one of my best friends was calling. Again, my phone was silenced and no ringer drew any attention to my phone. I answered the call speaking VERY softly and proceeded to make my way to the door to a courtyard outside to speak on the phone. I told my friend in VERY muted voice that I was going outside to take a call. As I walked to the door with the phone to my ear and not talking at all, a librarian pushed a patron at a desk aside and rushed across the floor to scold me about using a cell phone. I was two feet away from the door to the courtyard when this happened and so I just ignored the librarian and continued to go outside. Now remember, I wasn't even talking during this walk to the courtyard ... I just had a phone to my ear. After I finished my call, I returned to the inside of the library and noticed the librarian sitting at her desk. I approached her and asked what I had done to cause her to PUSH aside another patron and RUSH across the floor to basically yell at me when I wasn't even talking on the phone and was clearly making my way to a door to take a call outside. She responded that I had the cell phone to my head. I asked her if she heard me talking on the phone and she meekly responded that no she hadn't. Why these dramatics then I asked. I got the normal lecture about cell phone rudeness. We're becoming a society where the issue of cell phone use has been so abused that even the innocent are feeling the reprocussions.
As I started out saying, learn some manners and some civility about the use of cell phones or get ready to see more and more and more restrictions about where and when you can carry and use your cellphones. They're already banned in most gyms and sportsclubs. Many high-end restaurants are banning cellphones. We see more and more state governments writting laws about the use of cells on the roads. The trend is clear. End the boorish behavior or get ready to see the same road the smokers travelled where yoiu wind up needing to go outside and use your cell phone in an alley because that's the only place left where it isn't prohibited.
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