Cell Phone Etiquette

[sairose]

Originally posted by aephi alum
Also, if you're in a concert hall, for pity's sake turn off your cell phone!! If you are expecting an emergency call, set your phone to vibrate and step out if it rings, or tell the person who might be calling you to call the concert hall instead and have an usher fetch you.

A few months back, I was at Lincoln Center enjoying a concert when someone's cell phone rang mid-concerto. This was despite the slide projected before the performance, informing the audience that cell phones and pagers should be turned off. (I will not even comment on the number of people who seemed to think jeans and t-shirts were appropriate concert-going attire. )

There was an ad (I think it ran last year?) set in an opera house, where someone's cell phone rang mid-aria (not to mention off-key to the aria), and the soprano picked up a spear and hurled it through the guy's cell.

THANK YOU, aephi alum!!!!!!!!!! I was gonna post that if someone else hadn't.

Lemme tell ya. I am a music major, and this is the one thing you can do to royally piss me off. I have been to peoples senior recitals when someone's PHONE WENT OFF. Maybe to a non-musician, you won't understand so much WHY this is so wrong. Well, I'll tell ya. When I'm on stage making music, I'm totally, completely focused on it and ONLY it--putting my all into the music I am creating. I am in a different state of mind, and there's nothing that breaks me from that then a DAMN CELL PHONE. And the audience is also in a different state of mind, listening to my music, getting emotions from it, and there goes a phone.

My Senior Recital is this March, and I'll tell you right now, if anyone's phone goes off, I will announce between numbers to turn it off. Not EVEN kidding.

Oh, and here's a good one. When my choir sang in Carnegie Hall during spring break, phones went off at least 5 times. We were beyond pissed.

Sorry for the rant! LOL BUt it's so rude to performers.

[tinydancer]

I hear ya! During a performance of "Arsenic and Old Lace," THREE different phones went off. All of us on the stage were sooo mad, but "the show must go on."

One local theatre has the following in their program:
"Please turn all cell phones, pagers, and children under the age of 5 to the mute setting."

[AOPIHottie]

When you are in a restaurant or bar about to order or waiting for the server/bartender to come over, DO NOT be on your phone! or atleast have some fraction of politness and hang up when the server/bartender walk up to you. I have gone up to tables before, and he/she was talking on the phone and didn't pause to aknowlege I was there, or set the phone down to order and, hell yeah, I turn around and walk off. When they hang up the damn phone I will go back to the table. I have other crap to do, I don't have time to stand at your table and wait 5 minutes while you talk about what your boyfriend did to piss you off today. Go to McDonalds if you don't want service.

[ZTAMich]

Keep the volume of your cell OFF when you're passing time by playing a game on it.

[cash78mere]

Originally posted by AlphaSigOU
The way today's cell phones are designed, there's little, if any chance that it could generate a spark that would ignite gasoline vapors. Most gas station fires are caused by people who fill gas cans improperly - always on the ground (not on a truck bed), nozzle in contact with the container.

Likewise, if you're already outside pumping gas, DO NOT reenter your car until you've finished pumping. The static electricity potential is such that you could set off a spark from the static discharge.

And it's a VERY good idea not to talk on the cell while pumping gas... always keep yourself focused on the task at hand when performing an operation that could kill or severely injure you if the instructions are ignored.

little, but not no chance. it happened in New Paltz, New York two weeks ago. the guy was pumping his gas and answered his phone and a fireball erupted. the attendant pushed a button which released the foam that put the fire out. the guy was hurt a little but refused medical treatment. i saw them cleaning the gas station the next day---they had to redo the whole ground.

here's a link to the story:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in617547.shtml

[James]

Thats just punishment from God for being truly annoying

Originally posted by cash78mere
little, but not no chance. it happened in New Paltz, New York two weeks ago. the guy was pumping his gas and answered his phone and a fireball erupted. the attendant pushed a button which released the foam that put the fire out. the guy was hurt a little but refused medical treatment. i saw them cleaning the gas station the next day---they had to redo the whole ground.

here's a link to the story:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in617547.shtml