I’ve been in many offices waiting rooms where you can’t use a cell phone. Then the guard and the receptionist loud talk for two hours.
This wasn’t about USING a cell phone, it was about just having one in my pocket. If they’d told me not to use it that would be fine, but, if they won’t trust me to keep my word on this, to Hell with them! I resent having to leave my little Swiss Army knife in the car, it is not a weapon, it is a tool. I’ve carried a pocket knife since I was eight, never attacked anyone yet.