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Post by fureverywhere on Dec 14, 2011 10:15:16 GMT -5
When cell phones started to go mainstream back in the day someone chuckled about how people look like they're in their own private phone booth... , maybe they don't have phone booth's anymore either...anyway... Aren't there still times when maybe a conversation might be a bit too sensitive for public domain??? Or just out of common courtesy??? Being forced to overhear pulls the surrounding life forms into your private space if'n they want to be there or not...two recent examples: Hulloow, are you there? <silence> Look I know you don't want to talk to me <redial> Don't hang up on me, I wanted to just say I understand why she did that and <click> Celeste? Celeste? <redial> Hulllooo, can't you understand why it wasn't what we expected and I knew that, but wait you didn't have to get all <click> <redial> Hullooo??? Celeste??? I know you don't want to talk to me but <click> or So I sez to him we'll ship it by Tuesday and he %*&%# has an attitude a mile wide and I sez to him I sez &*#$@% use the Arco line and see when THEy &$#*(&^ get it sent out there. Yeah that's what I sez yeah same as you and Roy, if you can't $@%#&% fix the *$%#@ problem don't get into it that's what I sez and they don't listen $@#^&% moron @#%&$ they just don't get it and I sez you don't wanna heah... You're sharing an emotional moment with someone who what? Is breaking up with you? Is mad at you? You're almost crying? or your company needs to kick the competition's butt out of the region. Yes you're mad, yes you have the right to brag... But not in a ten person line waiting for checkout
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Post by sugar on Dec 14, 2011 10:28:58 GMT -5
I see your two and raise you:
"I swear this guy was super hot, but OMG (literally, she said the letters, not the words) it hurts so bad to pee now! Like its buuuuuuuurns really bad. Um, I don't know, I thought a preppy kid wouldn't have...you know (gets quiet) diseases. I am not a slut you wh*rebag!! (laughs) So seriously...I can't go to the doctor 'cus I have my hair appointment. Do you think advil and like extra vitamin c would fix it? I prefer natural stuff"
I wish this were fake.
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Post by catstina on Dec 14, 2011 11:06:44 GMT -5
Wow. That is just ridiculous!! Screaming that out for everyone to hear? Do we have no shame anymore??
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Post by maryellen on Dec 14, 2011 17:56:06 GMT -5
LOL!!!!!
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Post by zaeva06 on Dec 14, 2011 18:54:08 GMT -5
Hah! I laughed my rear off reading this.
I just got a new job about a month ago working at a STAPLES store.
Anyway, I'm working as a cashier up to christmas and you would'nt believe the number of people who get to the front of the line, are still on their cell-phones, and as I'm trying to cash them out and get them to do what they need to do to get out of their, they are still going on about: "Mmm, girl know that!", or "I don't care if you gotta drive an extra few miles, go to the good McDonald's, not that crap one down the street!"
These people then get angry at me because I'm either trying to tell them about our rewards program (required by the store with every customer), or just trying to get their money.
Can the conversation already, are you incapible of getting off the phone for five seconds?
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Post by melonie on Dec 14, 2011 19:25:43 GMT -5
If I happen to get stuck at a register checking people out, and someone stands there blabbing away on the phone, I have no problem being rude. I have tried being nice, patient, etc. But that gets you no where. I might stand there and look at the person, like I am waiting for something, before I even begin to scan their items. Or I may just take my own sweet time ringing the order up. If I happen to get called to a register for managers asst. I'll excuse myself and walk away, and not send the other cashier over to keep the order going. I'll answer the phone and direct a call. Engage in conversation with the carryout person. If it is someone I know well, we'll banter about something stupid or silly, completely ignoring the customer while we take care of their order.
Passive aggressive. Yeah. But you have NO idea how much of my time people on their cell phones waste for me. Only 2 times in 5 yrs have there been complaints about me. My bosses didn't believe them.
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Post by fureverywhere on Dec 15, 2011 9:41:04 GMT -5
It's annoying, it's also difficult being an audience. After the young man calling Celeste left we all wanted to give him a hug he looked so sad. With the other guy the yelling and profanity were bad enough I would have said something if not for the rush of people. There are young children in line nevermind everyone else...Good customer service-suggest some nice duct tape perhaps????
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Post by adoptapitbull on Dec 17, 2011 20:03:04 GMT -5
Reminds me of the drunk girl on the plane on the way back from FL.
"OMG I was f'ing wasted, like, I woke up this morning, still f'ing wasted. Then, there was this guy, like, OMG, like, if I wasn't married, we, like, totally would have f'ed. Like, I love my husband, but this guy was f'ing HAWT!"
I think she mentioned some more sex acts and about 1,000 more "likes". I sat in my seat and cracked up for most of the flight.
Then I find out she is some software engineer. Don't ask me HOW this woman could multiply 3 x 3 let alone be any sort of engineer. But anyway, back to the point, she was a complete moron who put all her stuff out there for every passenger to hear.
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Post by pitbullmamaliz on Dec 17, 2011 20:54:42 GMT -5
I've always been tempted to join in on the conversations of people who are having loud phone conversations or loud in-person conversations. Maybe they don't realize how loud they are? Or they just don't care, in which case I'll give them the attention they're so desperately seeking, but not in a way they'd like. Haven't had the guts to do it yet, though, LOL.
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Post by fureverywhere on Dec 18, 2011 15:32:45 GMT -5
Woman on the bus the other day...Russian? Polish?...the exclamations were in English though...the only voice you could hear jabbering above everyone else. Finally the driver yelled back "Ladeee with THE PHONE!!!! WHERE ARE YOU GETTING OFF?????". We all groaned together when she called back the end of the line,
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