New Low for Cell Phones: Screaming At The Grocery Store...

[stopbush]

OMFG! As bad as cell phones are as a norm, I believe there's a new phenom that takes them to a new low: the person screaming into their cell phone in the grocery aisle.

On a recent trip to Smith's, it seemed that every other person was shopping while talking into a fucking cell phone. The worst offenders were those using the phone as a walkie talkie, ie: having the other party on speaker phone and yelling into the receiver. "I'm in the cereal aisle, they've got Corn Flakes on sale. No? How about Trix? No? Well, what DO you want then?"

Jeebus H Tap-Dancing Christ! What ever happened to writing a fucking list before you leave home and buying the fucking items on your list? Or, calling home before you leave the office and asking ahead of time what you should pick up on the way home? Are these people really saving time by multi-tasking at the grocery store?

And of course, since they exist in their own universe - and said universe revolves around them - they aren't aware of other people around them as they smash their carts into their fellow shopper's kids! Assholes!

Just for fun, I stood next to one and spoke overly loud to my kids. "Wait, I can't hear you!" They moved, I moved...until I got tired of the game.

"Every time a cell phone rings, an angel goes to hell..."

[lectrobyte]

1. Well, I do use my cell phone at the store or whatever, since it can

avoid extra trips out, but I try to be reasonably polite about it.

[KurtNYC]

2. But their bad karma produces tumors

Since no one seems to believe this...

A new Swedish study shows people who have used cell phones for a decade or more may have a greater chance of developing a rare kind of brain tumor.

The study published Wednesday comes from a respected environmental institute in Stockholm, the Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institute Scientists, found a nearly four-fold increase in a type of non-cancerous tumor -- that can become life-threatening. ( Read Report )

The tumors formed on the side of the head where the phone was most often held.

http://www.channel3000.com/health/3822692/detail.html

[stopbush]

3. Just think, 10 years from now there will be a dedicated "Tumor Remedies"

aisle in the super market!

[Richardo]

11. "It's not a toomah...it's NOT"

-A. Schwarzeneggar.

[Karenina]

7. Tobacco lobby redux.

Hear ye, hear ye!!!

Those tiny "in ear" headphones will fuck your hearing AND
cellphones will fuck your brain. Film at 11. :evilgrin:

[cruadin]

4. You're preaching to the choir with me. I have a cell phone and...

I manage to get through every single day of my life without having a phone conversation in the middle of store aisle,or at the wheel of my car in heavy city traffic, which is my REAL cell phone peeve.

[donheld]

5. This is what you get for not being a smart ass

Next time you're close to one of those speaker phone cituations just say something like "Why are you talking about cereal, when you are looking at the condoms"

[stopbush]

12. I wish I was that fast on the draw. 50 years old and too many lost

elections have dulled the processes.

"The mind powers...mind powers..."

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

6. Wow - you got REALLY upset about this

huh?

[BrklynLiberal]

8. I know exactly how you feel. I want to buy one of those cell phone

scramblers...but I think they are illegal. People sit on the bus and yell into their phones like they are the only people on the bus. It is truly pathetic. And just what we need now is to have these idiots be able to talk on cell phones on airplanes...right?

[davsand]

9. Cell phones and grocery stores= bad combination.

I get pissed off at people on cells when they park in front of something and carry on an extended conversation on the damn phone.

I can deal with the whole phone ringing in the store--it is annoying but I can deal with it. What I can't stomach is some old cow parked in front of the portabellas talking about her upcoming colon scan.


Laura

[Beaverhausen]

14. I hate it when they are in the check out line- being checked out

and aren't paying any attention to the fact that they should be getting their goddamn wallet out and paying the cashier.

Instead they have that damn phone glued to their ear.

[stopbush]

15. What's with the people in the freezer aisle? They have glass on the doors

so you can look through the glass, see the product, see the price, open the door and get what you want. Yet most people open the door and stand there for 20 seconds or so looking at the stuff inside after they've opened the door...because they already saw what they wanted!

I don't get it.

[driver8]

10. Here's a cell phone story for you...

I was at a Comedy club one night. A comedian is onstage, the room is pretty full and the guy is in the middle of his act. A cell phone rings, and this woman sitting at the front table picks up her phone and starts having a conversation while the comedian is talking. He stops and stares at her in disbelief. The crowd is silent - they cannot believe what is going on; but she just keeps yacking away.

The woman finishes her conversation and the comedian proceeded to make this woman the topic of the rest of his show. She got so mad that she picked up her stuff and stormed out...followed by a standing ovation from the crowd.

[stopbush]

13. I only wish Comedy Central had been there to tape that one! n/t

[johnnie]

16. Am I the only freak who doesn't care about this?

I can understand a movie theater or in the middle of a funeral, but why do so many people freak out when someone is on the phone at restaurants and stores? I personally don't do it, but I don't really lose my mind when other people are talking.

[Hand]

17. Here's one...

A few months ago, I was outside a busy downtown shopping/office complex--dozens of people passing in and out, plenty of sidewalk foot traffic, etc., etc.

This woman was standing by the main entrance door having a HUGE screaming, foul-mouthed fight on her cell phone, I guess with her husband or mother or someone like that. Plenty of personal details broadcast in clear and deafening tones to anyone within ten feet--make that twenty.

Unfrigginbelievable. People were giving the mad bitch a wide clearance and seriously avoiding eye contact; she probably would have hollered, "WADDAYOU LOOKING AT???? MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!!!!!!!!"

Bizarre. And sad.

[Bouncy Ball]

18. I used to get weirded out when they first came out with the hands-free

ear thingie. (People just walk around with this thing in their ear at all times.)

I was freaked out because at first, I thought they were talking to themselves.

[djeseru]

19. lol!

I still haven't gotten used to that - they really do look like they're talking to themselves.

I sometimes get the feeling that most of the people with bad cell phone habits are just out to get attention.