Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for October 06, 2010

tcayer, you mentioned a cell phone jammer yesterday - for the love of Pete where can I get one???

At least she’s quiet in her ofifce…..he’s a disturbance in his. He’s got to go……

Or she’s gotta find a different coffee shop. Which might be easier now that St*rb*cks has opened its 1,000,000th location.

Or she could try sitting in a library (I do understand difficulties concentrating in home).

Pow, pow, pow – got all three.

Even the library can be noisy. It’s amazing what parents let their kids get away with. What ever happened to consideration for others? Oh, that’s right, it’s an endangered species.

ejcapulet Cellular jammers are available, portable, simple, somewhat affordable, and illegal. (911 concerns). However, the law has been on the books for a long time, and yet to be tested in court. Some situations (multi-wireless-microphone theaters) may accidentally emulate the effect, with some effort and expense. Small Churches and coffee shops must just bite the bullet and go rogue on the gabbers and ringers. How would the Wi-Fi link hold up?

Our main local library if one is not quite you get shushed. Coffee shops are not quite public waiting for different brands of coffee to cool down so why not with cell phones, but why yell, I guess people with cell phones don’t mind others listening to conversations. I may next time let someone know how interesting their one way conversation informing everyone around what goes on.

If the guy keeps bothering you and you get no satisfaction from the manager contact the Corporate office. I did PLUS got free coupons for stuff.

The stupidest cell phone user I’ve seen was a guy on a loud motorcycle with his cell tucked betwixt helmet and shoulder, yelling to be heard over his own noise. I heard his side of the “conversation” clearly when he turned onto my street 4 blocks away. Heaven only knows what his victim at the other end thought.

I’ve never quite understood why people get annoyed about other people talking on their cell phones. It’s not like you’d get annoyed at people who are talking to their friends with them in the coffee shop. How is talking on the cell phone different?

For some reason, when people talk on cell phones they don’t realize their volume. My husband does it and my son got on to me the other day in the DMV. But once it is pointed out to you, a nice person would lower the volume. I guess nice is the word though.

^^^Wish i knew how to steal your avatar! As you can see, I don’t even know how to GET an avatar.

@ AmariT - I agree, though I get just as annoyed with people talking as I do about the cell phones.

We occasionally go to a restaurant without the kids and invariably get sat in a booth backing up to loud-mouths. Sometimes it is a source of amusement and we laugh out loud at their conversations. Other times it is a true annoyance. The last time was such a case. After listening on and on for a bit I texted my cell phone. The message I have for my text is not something I usually want many other people to hear, but this time I let it go it’s full length. It was amazing how quiet the table behind us was after that. :)

mythreesons Find a picture (avatar) you like and save it to your hard drive. go to the top right of this screen click on the you’re logged is as name when that screen comes up click on edit profile under your blank picture. on the next screen, right side update avatar. click on Browse, find the picture you saved, double-click it, then click on the upload button. TA DA

I don’t think I’ll ever get a cell phone. People speaking on them never do so in a normal volume, and when I’m on the other end the conversation is seldom coherent as it would be on a land line. I have a single line that serves for my FAX and also to update my 2 TiVos;-)

Yeah, I’d love a cell phone jammer. I’d use it in the truck, driving back and forth to work. Only problem would be half of those people wouldn’t ever realize their signal dropped, they would keep on yakking.

max is in preschool,luci is in day care! she could work in her empty house! but that guy was a jerk!

RUNS WITH BEER: Thanks, just spent a couple of hours trying to get the avatar. Picked pretty picture from my iPhoto file, did what you said from there, and nothing. Guess I will have to remain a question mark, but thanks for your help. I need to get a Mac geek here for help. Hope you come back to see this.

@Mythreesons: You need to make sure your image is a .jpg or a .gif. Sometimes the Mac doesn’t put the extension on the file name. If yours is just named something like photo instead of photo.jpg, it won’t show up. HTH

Mythreesons – did you click on “Update my Info” after uploading the picture? (looks like Runs with Beer missed that step)

Hey all wouldn’t Mythreesons need to go to Photobucket to pick something to load on her avaitor.

cell phone users are often as obnoxious as spammers… 3 late spammers flagged

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