CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW!?
I am heading to the airport once again today. Unfortunately, I have to transfer in Pittsburg this run since a straight flight was going to cost me considerably more. As I understand it, the airports are already having delays, so this should be an interesting day of people on cell phones.
Cell phones. I have three on me at this time. I have my personal cell on the smaller, I-could really-care-less-about-you phone carrier. I have my business PDA with cell phone service from the monster-conglomerate carrier. I have the the on-call Blackberry phone on the carrier that continually asked if I can hear them.
What I hate most is the people who have bad receiption. These are the people who for some reason feel that if you begin loosing receiption, you have to talk louder into the phone. As if the increased volume somehow increases the frequency bandwidth of the cell phone and it's carrier.
This brings me to my point (as I almost always have one). At what point did someone figure that yelling into the phone would make it so you can hear the other person? What do you do for people like that?
Here is what I do... I hop on my cell phone and scream into it right next to the other guy. Then when both of us are off the phone, I start a conversation with the idiot...but very loud. That way, he think I have a hearing problem and not that I am some jerk that is on a cell phone yelling.
Yes, I get looks from other people around me and sometimes security walks up to check things out, but who cares. I am never going to see that person again, and it can be quite fun to see the expressions.
Airport in two hours.
Did you know...
The first flight ever was a human balloon flight. A Frenchman, Jean Pilâtre de Rozier, made the first captive-balloon ascension (Oct. 15, 1783). With the Marquis d'Arlandes, Pilâtre de Rozier made the first free flight, reaching a peak altitude of about 500 ft, and traveling about 51/2 mi in 20 min. (Nov. 21).
Cell phones. I have three on me at this time. I have my personal cell on the smaller, I-could really-care-less-about-you phone carrier. I have my business PDA with cell phone service from the monster-conglomerate carrier. I have the the on-call Blackberry phone on the carrier that continually asked if I can hear them.
What I hate most is the people who have bad receiption. These are the people who for some reason feel that if you begin loosing receiption, you have to talk louder into the phone. As if the increased volume somehow increases the frequency bandwidth of the cell phone and it's carrier.
This brings me to my point (as I almost always have one). At what point did someone figure that yelling into the phone would make it so you can hear the other person? What do you do for people like that?
Here is what I do... I hop on my cell phone and scream into it right next to the other guy. Then when both of us are off the phone, I start a conversation with the idiot...but very loud. That way, he think I have a hearing problem and not that I am some jerk that is on a cell phone yelling.
Yes, I get looks from other people around me and sometimes security walks up to check things out, but who cares. I am never going to see that person again, and it can be quite fun to see the expressions.
Airport in two hours.
Did you know...
The first flight ever was a human balloon flight. A Frenchman, Jean Pilâtre de Rozier, made the first captive-balloon ascension (Oct. 15, 1783). With the Marquis d'Arlandes, Pilâtre de Rozier made the first free flight, reaching a peak altitude of about 500 ft, and traveling about 51/2 mi in 20 min. (Nov. 21).
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