[srm913]

Man, I actually once thought I was the only person clever enough to utilize this gambit. Darn!

[DBrow]

If I walk around talking to myself, they send me down for a "random" drug check and my friends are all concerned.

If I do the same thing holding a cell phone, nobody has a problem.

So this article is no big surprise to me.

Oops, gotta go, Blair is calling again...

[SMARTY]

"...research at Rutgers University as well as the Ethics and Public Policy Center that found that a great number of cell phone users are faking..."

Who needed research to tell them this was going on?

[Serb5150]

Men will pretend to be on a call as they walk over to hit on a woman. Women will pretend to be on a call to avoid getting hit on by men.

Hilarious and True.

[freebird5850]

At work if I am discussing work related matters and they get a personal call (and let it take priority). I keep talking about what I need to convey and go on working. So naturally when they get off the phone and want me to re-explain, I tell them they must come back another time as they have wasted enough of mine.

[Mike Bates]

Maybe that's why every woman I see is talking on a cell phone.

[KarlInOhio]

Now I just need a small remote button to make my cell phone ring so I can answer it and get out of useless meetings. Going through the menus to get to the ring tone selection to make it ring doesn't fool anyone.

At a previous job we had one woman who was way too chatty and kept people from getting work done. The rule was if you saw her pin someone down in his office, you went to another phone and called him so he had an excuse to leave.

[meowmeow]

Hmmm. I always carry my MP3 player in my purse. Sometimes when I don't want people to talk to me (in the elevator, on the train platform) I put the head phones on but don't turn it on. I hate it when people I don't know start pointless cliche-filled chit-chat just because we're both standing there in silence.

So there - I listen to fake music.

[HairOfTheDog]

Someone who's late for work may enter the office talking to "an important client" to cover her tardiness.

I've done that one :~D

[429CJ]

I'm not buying the 'talking on the cell phone to be noticed' business. Perhaps 15 or 20 years ago when very few folks had cell phones people might have noticed. But now that almost everyone from 11 year olds on up have them nobody notices you just because you have a cell phone.

What I do find very annoying is when someone in a restaurant gets a call and talks very loudly. There is no need to talk so loudly. When I get a call I make sure I am talking directly into the phone and keep my voice down and the person at the other end have no trouble hearing me.

[429CJ]

I remember one episode of 'Andy Griffith' where Barney is faking talking on the phone in front of Andy and suddenly the phone rang. The look on his face was hilarious!

[paltz]

There's this con where a guy will ask to use a chick's cell phone to make a local call b/c his cell just died. He'll then call his own cell, and...shazam!...he now has her phone number she wouldn't have given to the creep in the first place.

[SoothingDave]

Faking It (Fake Cell Phone Calls)
CBS News ^ | April 22, 2005 | Lloyd Garver

Well, CBS is the authority on fake.

SD

[varon]

Fake phone calls

Fake boobs

Fake orgasms

Only in America :-)

[Misty Memory]

Faking It (Fake Cell Phone Calls)

Everyone already knows women fake it ;)

[BenLurkin]

Loud cell phone users in public places (eg commuter train) should be stripped naked, coated with honey and placed on a fire-ant hill.