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I am an old man.
Proof: I can’t accept the modern idea that private conversations can and should happen in public.
I hate the idea that it is acceptable to be talking to someone on your cellphone while also trying to engage with a cashier or store clerk- Or vice versa. I find it incredibly rude. If I’m walking with someone, I hate it when they spend most of the walk talking to someone else who isn’t even there, leaving me out of the conversation. Most of all, I can’t stand it when Teens get on the subway or bus and yell into their cellphones about the sex they had last night or some other private, personal thing- it makes me want to walk up to them, calmly take and close their cell phone, and crush it between my teeth.
It makes me think about the first public phones: I think about phone booths. I think about why we made them: It wasn’t just to keep the noise of the world out, it was also to keep our conversations as private as possible. When did we stop valuing that?
So here it is: A cell phone privacy booth. True, these new kiosks are designed to be good advertising platforms- not good privacy creating spaces, (Unlike the old booths built only for privacy and conversation, not for advertising.) but still; Another suggestion of how they might be used.
Kids today, am I right?
December 3rd, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Think about what you said for a moment Post; do you seriously want to put a phone that a teen owns, which has been in who knows how many ungodly nasty places, between your teeth?
Although about all the rest, I do agree. I worked at an ice cream place for a number of years, and I could not stand it when people walked up and then told me to hold on while they finished their conversation, or who would simply not stop their conversation and just point at things, never once saying a single word to me. It is dehumanizing, to say the least.
December 3rd, 2009 at 4:00 pm
haha, true- maybe better to simply close the TEENS phone and wag my finger at them, all old-timey.
TEENS! We still cool, but please don’t yell your private things into your cell phones while on the bus, OK?
Yes, I sympathize. It’s been awhile since I worked retail, but I’m angry whenever I see someone do this to anybody.
December 3rd, 2009 at 9:38 pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/8385313.stm
Phone booth possibilities!
December 4th, 2009 at 9:06 am
Totally agree, i’m in my early twenties, but the old ways need to be remembered
December 4th, 2009 at 9:42 am
This is actually quite funny as my cell broke a week ago and its been the most calm and relaxing week in a long time. Conversations are not interrupted, I don’t have to worry about missed calls and getting back too people… everything that happened with a cell phone i can now do at whatever pace i want.
its been nice.
December 4th, 2009 at 11:31 am
@ Andrew: Yes, I saw that! Fantastic, no?
@WerberJude: Indeed! I’m not actually an old man- my teens are NOT yet a far, distant memory, but here I am complaining about the youth of today like a septuagenarian!! There is one hell of a generation gap building, methinks.
@Chro: Welcome to my wonderful world of cell phone free living! It’s great here!
December 5th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
“when Teens get on the subway or bus and yell into their cellphones about the sex they had last night or some other private, personal thing”
ahhhhhhhhhhh thats always so awful!!