What is the rudest incident of public cell phone abuse you can remember?
Teddy & I were in a Chinese restaurant today and there was a young woman sitting at another table with a man. The man was the woman's client, and the woman was a real estate agent. The man was trying to get his mortgage refinanced, but "Terry" wouldn't do it. So the woman called "Tom" and told him that "Terry" would only refinance this guy's 1.3 million dollar morgtage at 6. something. His home is worth about 3 million. "Tom" couldn't get on to the computer because someone had cut a natural gas line near by and his building had to be evacuated. So it will be Monday before the client finds out. Oh, and the real estate agent's father bought some appliances on line, but her mom couldn't remember the website.
I know all of this because this woman carried on one phone conversation after another (loudly) while sitting there with her client. Unbelievable.
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Well..this was rude to me. I was driving with a friend one day and there was a woman on a cellphone next to me. I am passing her and she just decides to switch lanes without even looking,..and forces me to drive into the ditch. I didn't crash or even stop the car,...I had to drive in the ditch until the woman heard my horn and finally swerved back into her own lane. I really don't think driving and cellphones go together. Oh,and another thing that is not rude, but scares me,is that David will drive...and text at the same time! Even on major freeways and stuff! It scares me lol
David better be careful, I read the following article this morning....
Text messages cited in fatal NY crash By BEN DOBBIN, Associated Press Writer Sat Jul 14, 6:05 PM ET CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. - Text messages were sent and received on a 17-year-old driver's cell phone moments before the sport utility vehicle slammed head-on into a truck, killing her and four other recent high school graduates, police said. Bailey Goodman was driving her friends to her parents' vacation home when her SUV, which had just passed a car, swerved back into oncoming traffic, hit a tractor-trailer and burst into flames. Five days earlier, the five teenagers had graduated together from high school in Fairport, a Rochester suburb.Goodman's inexperience at the wheel; evidence she was driving above the speed limit at night on a winding, two-lane highway; and a succession of calls and text messages on her phone were cited Friday by Sheriff Phil Povero as possible factors in the June 28 crash in western New York."The records indicate her phone was in use," Povero said. "We will never be able to clearly state that she was the one doing the text messaging. ... We all certainly know that cell phones are a distraction and could be a contributing factor in this accident."Several minutes before the first 911 call about the crash, Goodman talked briefly with a fellow graduate trailing her in another vehicle. Two minutes before the crash was reported, her phone was used to send a text greeting to a friend, Povero said.He sent a reply less than a minute before the first 911 call, the sheriff added.Routine tests ruled out alcohol as a factor in the 10 p.m. crash, and police don't suspect drug use was involved. Goodman had only a junior driver's license, making it illegal for her to be driving after 9 p.m. without supervision or to be carrying so many young passengers.The victims, all 17 or 18, had been cheerleaders at Fairport High. In March, the team took first place in its category at a national competition in Orlando, Fla.
-- Edited by 24 fan tim at 08:51, 2007-07-15
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