[TommyDale]

>i>"Yet no one ever says a word to the rude people who talk loudly while NOT on their cell phone."

I once had a group of small children sitting behind me kicking the seat, while their parents sat peacefully up in First Class. I got up and told the flight attendant to get these children under their parents' control. They made the parents come back and sit with the kids. Guess where? In my seat, and I was moved up to First Class in THEIR seat!

[LIConFem]

You were lucky! :o)

I take a train to and from work every day. Last Friday afternoon, there was a spanish-speaking gentleman on my train who was talking rather loudly on his cell phone for nearly the entire trip. A few stations before mine, a man got up to leave. As he was walking past the phone-talker, he yelled something like, "No one wants to hear your conversations, you f$ckin' a$$hole". Sitting two rows in front of him was another man with his young (grade-school age) daugher. People applauded.

I don't condone excessive cell-phone use in restaurants, trains, planes, et cetera. But the level of phoney righteous indignation exhibited by some folks is ridiculous, and largely (IMO) the result of group-think.

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