"Your self-centered attitude of "everyone else around me be damned, I'll let my cell phone ring whenever it wants to," does negatively impact everyone else's theater/concert experience."
I am guessing that my productive efforts in the marketplace are probably paying for some govt program that you are leaching off of.
I don't have the time to go to restaurants or plays or whatever, I work for a living to generate a living and pay taxes for people like you.
Many of us do have to work and we don't all sit in a cubicle like people did in in 1975.
Get a life.
My FEMA card just ran out.
Accusing a FReeper of leeching off your labor or reporting to a cubicle farm for work is a non sequitur in terms of this discussion. I believe HIDEK6 was seeking to illustrate how cellular telephones can absolutely have a negative impact on how we comport ourselves as a society.
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