What do you hate most about cell phone users who are very disrespectful? Here are some of mine;

1. Using cell phones in theaters during a movie.

2. Using cell phones in a restaurant.

3. Using cell phones in a doc's office.

4. Talking loud in ares that are supposed to be quiet.

5. Store personel who talk on their cell phones while you are waiting to be helped.

Just start looking at them like you're following the conversation. They'll start being quiet.

LOL!

I like that Rasczak and can even see that it would work.

Phones in general are disrespectful because they never ask for permission to ring.

LOL!

And always seem to ring at the time it would be most rude. Like when you are trying to have a serious conversation with someone.

Damn phones

Right on!...and we're not even talking about sending/getting SMS.......

I use it a little as possible.

When you are used to typing on a keyboard those things drive me insane. I see my niece typing using just her thumbs and doing it really fast. It's intimidating

Honestly though, I feel old when I hear myself go on about "young people" and the things they do that irritate me like sending and receiving 100's of texts a day.

A couple of weeks ago, someone stole my mobile and it took me 1 week to get a new one for free from a friend who has 4 or 5 of them in her drawer.

As much as I hate to admit it, I felt lost without it. And since I have no other phone, I became non-existent, almost a nobody!! I really hate to say it!!It's even become difficult to see a friend at a café/pub without it. It's terrible!
My ISP provides 50 SMS a month for free; all I need to do is go to the site and send them; however, no one can answer me.

I don't use it to make calls - way too expensive - but SMS, well, got me hooked. No not 100's a day but...some.

What I hate most about cell phones are those aggravting dropped calls. Have to keep calling the person back who you are talking to!!

If it happens twice, then I won't call back. Everything seems to be added to them - every gadget known to mankind - but they flatly refuse to improve on the damn signaling!!

The thing I hate the most is when I'm standing there having a conversation with a person and their cell phone goes off and they instantly put their hand up and take the call, expecting me to all of the sudden silence myself mid-sentence. They act as if it is well understood that the conversation between them and whoever is at the other end is automatically more important - The way I see it is they're ending a legitimate conversation to fiddle around with a talking plastic box. You'd think now that we have caller ID people would just look at who's calling and call them back at a more appropriate time or if it really is important they would say "excuse me I've got to take this, that's what I always do but most people try to silence a real live human being befor they even have their phone out. It's sad how many people have become puppets of their cell phones.
I have devised a solution to that which is working well. When people do that to me I ignore all hand gestures so they have to say something or walk further away to hear the phone call and usually when they say something it's usually a sharp "shhh". Either way at that point the conversation they were having with me is over and I won't pick it back up for at least a day. I tell them straight up that I would be willing to speak with them perhaps tomorrow or some other time when they don't have other such urgent things to do. I can barely keep myself from laughing when their phone call turns out to be some telemarketer or a dropped call or something. People I deal with now tend not to even look at their phones until a natural pause occurs in the conversation.

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That's another annoying thing; those blasted telemarketers!!

When one of my brothers died, I had to keep the cell phone activated. I got a call from one of those damn telemarketers, and I had to tell them to buzz off and that the line was for family members caalling about our dearly-departed brother.

Another thing that I hate is someone who calls and you don't know the name or the number that's being displayed on the caller ID!

If they got the balls to call you, then they should have the balls to show their name and number!!

Not those morons!

Actually I try not to be rude to telemarketers. They are just trying to earn a buck like the rest of us. A polite, sorry I'm busy at the moment usually handles most of them. If not well thats different

I will even give them a couple of mins if I'm not busy. Never buy anything off them though

On the subject of people who rudely answer a phone call while speaking with someone and not excusing themselves well thats just bad manners. For work reasons I occasionally do have to take the call (I do check who is ringing first) but I would always apologise and ask the person I am speaking to, to give me a minute.

Courtesy and manners are a dying art. Good manners were drilled into us as children. I just don't think parents today put the same emphasis on it that our parents did.

That didn't work for me when I tried it.

Since they were calling all hours of the day and night, I got so sick and tired of them doing that.

Now because of the Do Not Call Registry, if they harass even so much as one person, they can and will face charges.

It's probably a lot worse in the US than here.

Wouldn't be surprised. You're more than likely right!!

Mmccarthy is most definitely right... Actually I can remember two friends of mine who when first moved to the US (one from Ireland actually and one from Austria)commenting about unwanted and unsolicited calls and text messages and such things on their cell phones - they were very surprised. Although this sort of thing is commonplace in the states I still find it absolutely outrageous - there should be laws prohibiting it, after all it does cost me money to receive a call (in a way - uses up my minutes).
It is true that manners are a dying art but what is so interesting to me is that even people who raised during a time when good manners were a more prevalently relevant virtue and also still practice good manners are still so rude when it comes to cell-phones. I don't know exactly why this is but my observations lead me to believe that there are many factors that contribute to such involuntary behavior. For instance, in the US the overall economy does facilitate the prosperity of a single income family anymore for the majority and time is always of the essence - increasingly so as the days go by. That fact, coupled with the growing dominance of the establishment's media and imposed reformatting of lifestyle (mostly due to recurring implementation of information technology within the corporate sector) has left the majority of the US's society (if it can even legitimately be called society anymore) without any time to even consider or implement such things as manners much less teach them to future generations such as their children. It's disgusting.
When I go overseas I get the impression that I come off naturally abrasive and I am fully aware that most of the world considers amerikans to be particularly rude in general. I can only assume that experiences with telemarketers in the states are comeasurate. Personally I couldn't imagine entertaining a telemarketer in any way. I always treat them like they are arrogant, invasive, rude, and undesirable... because they are. I look at it like this: If I have a bunch of furniture and old record albums I want to sell I would put an ad in the paper and have a garage sale or just simply display it in such a fashion that makes it obvious that it is for sale. I would never open up a phone book and start systematically calling strangers on the telephone and in order to sell my goods. I would probably starve to death as a homeless man on the street before I could bring myself to do something like that - it just isn't acceptable behavior as it does impose on others, it costs them time and it is invasive. Having a telephone in my house or on my person is not an open invitation to strangers to call me any more than having a door on my house is an open invitation for strangers to just walk on in anytime they're trying to make a buck.

On answering phones: You don't have to answer them unless you want to. I hardly ever answer the phone unless its convenient or I'm expecting a call I want to take. People will leave messages.

On telemarketers: If you want to do them a big favor and give them a free break, tell them to hold the line a sec and set the phone down. They love it when people do that. If you want to piss them off, make them go through their entire schpeel, ask them some questions, tell them you want to buy, then hang up.

On posting to internet forums: Paragraph breaks. White space. Jeezus.

One other time, one of them called me, trying to get me to buy something. Forgot what it was though. But when I told her that it was not interested, she persisted even more!!

I hung up the phone right after shouting to her; :NO! I'M NOT INTERESTED!!. She never called back.

I don't bother talking with these people anymore. So when I get calls like the one you're talking about (the number's always hidden), I place the phone next to the TV speaker and it's whatever show that's on at the time that answers them.

Besides I couldn't afford to buy much even if interested.