Mobile phone

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 27 Nov 2004, 19:06

I don't use a mobile phone, except at work. We have an emergency-use one at home but generally forget to take it anywhere where it might be useful. If I did use one on a regular basis I would have a ring tone that said 'Ring ring, ring ring' in a totally deadpan voice. I think I might employ Norman Lovett for this purpose, whose wife Fiona is an old friend. Her bio doesn't mention the fact that she also fronted a band, was a Playboy Bunny and was briefly Adam Ant's girlfriend, but I digress.

Post by **wangi** » 27 Nov 2004, 20:40

Since moving my mobile has seen a lot less use - main reason being there is bugger all reception at the end of the Prom!

Gedge · Post by **Gedge** » 29 Nov 2004, 13:47

Epykat wrote:
On the upside. I think my ring tone is great. It reminds me of Billy Connolly and it makes me smile when I hear it

That's all fine and dandy for you. I'm sure people feel the same about their Benny Hill theme tune. What about people who don't want to be subjected to it? What about people playing their radio loudly on the bus?

Thank you ecm Poppy and Teddygirl for confirming what I suspected - that there are a large number of people who putting up with this through gritted teeth but are made to feel it's just them being difficult for the sake of it. In fact it's a matter of not respecting other people's space.

I would start with confining mobile phone users to the upstairs on the bus. At least that would mean I was given some choice. Although it would mean I would have missed this "conversation" on the bus the other week:

Woman on mobile very loudly so the whole bus can hear: "Have you heard Susan's pregnant? But you're not to let anyone else know because she hasn't told mum yet".

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 29 Nov 2004, 14:03

I heard a charming conversation coming from the back of the bus the other week.

"AYE HULLO. AYE AHVE GOAT THE STUFF KEN. NAW AH CANNAE TALK AHM OAN THE BUS IF YEN KEN WHIT AH MEAN BUT AHVE GOAT IT. AHM JIST AT JOCKS LODGE. NAW AH CANNAE REALLY TALK AHM OAN THE BUS. HAVE YE GOAT THE SHEKELS? COS AHLL BRING IT OVER AHLL GET A FAST BLACK. AYE ALRIGHT SEE YE LATER."

The hero of our story, or should I say the heroine got off at Seafield, presumably to alight said vehicle and thence to the final destination. The rest of us quietly pretended to be deef.

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 29 Nov 2004, 14:30

ecm wrote:
Gedge wrote:This is most heartening. I thought I was the only person left without one. Does anyone else still find their use irritating?

Do mobile phone users appreciate that some people object to them?
You wouldn't think so if my bus journeys are anything to go by. Take this morning for example. I was coming home from Tescos at Musselburgh and a female rings no less than four people in rapid succession to tell each of them, very loudly (practically shouting in fact), that she's on the bus.

"Hiya, it's me (pause) a'hm oan the bus (pause) aye, the bus (pause) right, bye then"

Four times, almost word for word each time. I really wanted to batter her senseless with my sesame seeded bloomer (only 69p).

What's the point in battering someone into the same state they were in before you started battering them?

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 29 Nov 2004, 14:33

It occurs to me that here on POL we have a bunch of eavesdropping B'stards!

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 29 Nov 2004, 14:50

Porty wrote:
ecm wrote: "Hiya, it's me (pause) a'hm oan the bus (pause) aye, the bus (pause) right, bye then"

Four times, almost word for word each time. I really wanted to batter her senseless with my sesame seeded bloomer (only 69p).
What's the point in battering someone into the same state they were in before you started battering them?

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 29 Nov 2004, 14:54

Porty wrote:It occurs to me that here on POL we have a bunch of eavesdropping B'stards!

It's hardly eavesdropping! There's no avoiding these idiots and their manic witterings unless you're prepared to get off the bus and walk the rest of the way home.

I'll give you the B'stards bit though!

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 29 Nov 2004, 21:38

I think it makes the journey more interesting

In the olden days you had to pass the time by reading the person in front's paper over their shoulder - now you can get their life history in the space of a phone call - all for the price of a daysaver!