[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Mobiles

[Malia Kawaguchi]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 UcfRentLuvr at cs.com wrote:

> Unacceptable is ranting on at some random person about how crap your
> day's been, or how pretty your boss is, or how the new stock boy has a
> really nice arse. OVERSHARE, too much information, shut up.>>>
> 
> Exactly. I was walking back to the Student Union yesterday from class
> and girl was on her cell phone saying how high she and her boyrfriend
> had gotten the night before. And she wasn't just talking. She was
> talking loudly so that that whole section of the street heard her.
> 
> So yes, complete strangers do not need to hear about you getting high,
> how gross your toe nails are, or even if you think there might be too
> much hair in your shower drain. :)

Hm... well, it's not that I disagree completely, it's just that I view
it as not particularly different than a person having that exact same 
conversation with a friend on the bus/campus/movie.  IE, I don't think the 
problem is the mobile phone, but the idiot using it.  In my mind, if you 
wouldn't be doing/saying the same thing if it were another person next to 
you, then don't do it, but if it's just a normal conversation, standard 
"overhearing" rules apply - in other words, I just see it as none of my 
business.

Now if it's too loud to ignore, that is a seperate problem, which I would 
bring up if it were 2 people talking as well as if it was 1 with a cell.
Same with theaters.  Rude to talk = rude to talk in any form to anyone, 
present or not.

-Malia the ranter