Monday, July 17, 2006
"HI, CAN YOU HEAR ME?"
Cellphone users are unavoidable on the train and fall into several categories:
- Very considerate: keep their voices low and their conversations short and sweet, e.g. "Hi, I'm on the 5:20, I'll be home at 6:10. Bye."
- Considerate: keep their voices low, but the conversations go on longer.
- Not-so-considerate: loud talkers, short or long
- Really inconsiderate and clueless: loud talkers who appear to be totally unconscious that others around them are trying to sleep, read, etc. Especially annoying when the conversations are either very work-oriented ("YES, WE'LL SELL 50 AND THEN MOVE ON TO STRATEGIC RECONVERSION OF BLAHBLAH. PLEASE PASS THE WORD ALONG TO JIM AND THE REST OF THE TACTICAL OPERATIONS TEAM") or personal ('MY COLONOSCOPY IS SCHEDULED FOR THURSDAY. THEY SHOVE THIS TUBE UP ....").
Luckily, the clueless ones are relatively scarce.
- Very considerate: keep their voices low and their conversations short and sweet, e.g. "Hi, I'm on the 5:20, I'll be home at 6:10. Bye."
- Considerate: keep their voices low, but the conversations go on longer.
- Not-so-considerate: loud talkers, short or long
- Really inconsiderate and clueless: loud talkers who appear to be totally unconscious that others around them are trying to sleep, read, etc. Especially annoying when the conversations are either very work-oriented ("YES, WE'LL SELL 50 AND THEN MOVE ON TO STRATEGIC RECONVERSION OF BLAHBLAH. PLEASE PASS THE WORD ALONG TO JIM AND THE REST OF THE TACTICAL OPERATIONS TEAM") or personal ('MY COLONOSCOPY IS SCHEDULED FOR THURSDAY. THEY SHOVE THIS TUBE UP ....").
Luckily, the clueless ones are relatively scarce.
