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Now You've Done It - Mama's P.i.s.s.e.d.

MsMai -

Somewhere on site you'll find my thoughts on cell phones, dinnertime, etc. - but - to me it's worth repeating -

come to my house and leave your cell phones home. Waiting for an important call - then give them my land phone number and you can receive your call(s) and even in private! Just don't start pulling out a cell and taking calls, checking messages and texting - you can do that at home - not in my house.

dinnertime - family dinner table - PERIOD - don't ring the phone - cu it won't get answered - sorry - family time is not long enough these days and dinner with family is very important - and you know what - dinner is important even if you are the only one at the table

and - don't eat on the phone when talking to me - I'm not interested in your slurping, sucking, licking, and plate scraping with the fork even tho you excuse yourself when burping so politely and talking with your mouth full

manners are important - at least to me

yep - you fit in just fine!!!
 
Whew! {wiping my brow} I thought I had done something wrong for a minute and caused

all the confusion. :(

We are in total agreement. Won't happen in my house either. I can't stand to see a person walking into a store, or even worse inside a store with a cell glued to their head. Rude, I tell ya', just plain rude. Finish that dang call before you get out of the vehicle.

I love your forum; nice folks here and fantastic recipes.
 
Let me tell you how bad it's gotten with cell phones.

When I give a presentation of any kind, lately, I start with a canned speech about how I'm an easy-going, soft-spoken guy. But the one thing that turns me into a raving lunatic is the sound of a cell phone ringing. So anyone who hasn't turned their's off would be wise to do so.

Jump ahead to this past Saturday. I'm in the middle of my presentation about heirloom veggies at The Arboretum when a cell phone goes off. I stop dead. Look at the idiot, who at least is walking away (I suspect so that my talking won't interferre with his important chat). I make a comment about how some people just don't listen, and are so insecure they have to have an electronic lifeline that intrudes on other people.

Now, here comes the killer. Off to the side a gentlemen, referring to me, says something to the effect of, "well, that was awfully rude. I won't stand here listening to anyone that rude." and he walks off.

Get it? I'm giving a speech, and I'm the rude one, for daring to embarass a guy just for getting a phone call.

Hellofaworld we live in.
 
Thank you MSMai for the compliment and I am so glad you like it here as well.
I love Spice Place and have learned so much.

Re: Cell Phones; I agree with both KYH and MSMai, and they are the biggest cause for car accidents these days, and they also make folks behavior "pure T rude" as can be! I believe it has to be associated with all the other gripes we have about poor customer service and rude behavior in general that seems to be running so rampant in society these days! Everyone is so self absorbed and seem to care less about others more now than ever before, but as Brook pointed out "rain on their parade" for one minute and they're all huffy about it!!! GO FIGURE!!!!
 
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Cell phones a pet peeve of mine also ! People survived before cell phones but now you would think they can't ! For example...I was in the grocery store a few days ago and a girl was arguing with someone who must have been the boyfriend.Couldn't help but overhear so did eveyone else. I mean she was cussing and hollering ! Unbeleivable! Just hang the darn phone up !
I get on my daughter's case enough lately about her's.

Some people have no manners when it comes to cell phones.Or sense it seems!
 
I thought (years ago) that answering machines were bad - I watched people "screen" their calls and make rude comments to the machine (not to the caller of course - they didn't have the nerve to do that) and make total idiots of themselves.

Then caller ID came out - same thing.

If you don't want to talk to someone - tell them - don't lead them on.

And then the first phones that plugged into the car cigarette lighter. I still have that phone too. Of course I did not drive and yak to impress the world. Once again - for emergencies only.

Then they came out with the portable battery pack - you could sling this heavy contraption over your shoulder and yak.

So enter the cell phone.

And texting.

Everywhere you go - they are on the phone. Can't live with out it. It's their lifeline. They cannot speak with a store clerk or an order taker - it's too rude of the clerk to be waiting on them while they are talking. They pump gas while yakking - boy I wish they would blow themselves up and get it over with. They buy cell phones for their kids. Next - they will make phones for dogs and cats.

Don't even get me started with driving and yakking or texting. Look at the idiots that are using their computers while driving - or - watching movies while driving.

Today's multi-tasking is: the ability to yak on your cell phone, listen to your Ipod, type on your computer, watch a movie, play a vidoe game and have the news on the car radio, eat your fast food lunch, drink your coffee and also finish it with your danish - all while driving your car and waiting for OnStar to come through the pipeline telling you that they will call the ambulance for you after you have crashed into some innocent victim, or a child on a bike, or a pregnant woman carrying bags of groceries home from the store so she can feed her kids.

Yeah - buy a headset so that you can still drive and talk. do you think you can handle it? It seems that they plug in their headset and the stupid button at the same time. They still cannot talk and drive.

What the h.e.l.l. are manners anyway? It seems that they have gone right down the tubes. And who gives a hoot about the next person in today's me-me-me society. All for personal satisfaction and gratification - screw the next person, their feelings or their time.

I wonder when or IF - as a society - we become human again?

(before you start - I'm not bashing everyone - I think you all know what I mean!)

Oh and get this - no more phones in the classrooms at school - the teachers use cell phones now.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
 
You all make some great comments on a topic that irks the crap outta me too.

I can't really add a thing to what you've offered except to say, I'm almost 42 years old, it's 2008 and I've never owned a cell phone. Wouldn't even know how to send or receive a call on one. I presume they don't have a rotary dial? That alone would flub-me-up! Hee-Hee!
 
Hey - I got a cell - for emergency only - I can make a call and answer a call - and I can delete a call - I have no desire to read a text, send a text or retrieve any call waiting. When I am out it is on - when I am home it is off. Period.

I've got messages just sitting there - and I don't care. those that have the number know I do not accept messages, texts, etc. If the phone is off - then call my house - DUH! You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure that one out!

And when I'm home - I answer - I don't screen - cuz if I don't want your call - you''ll hear about it!
 
chubbyalaskagriz said:
You all make some great comments on a topic that irks the crap outta me too.

I can't really add a thing to what you've offered except to say, I'm almost 42 years old, it's 2008 and I've never owned a cell phone. Wouldn't even know how to send or receive a call on one. I presume they don't have a rotary dial? That alone would flub-me-up! Hee-Hee!
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Kev,

I just got my 1st "cellie" on Christmas a year ago 'cause Eddie bought it as for a gift for me! I did not feel that I needed one, so I was 50 when I got my 1st cell phone! Then he's went and got Maddy one just this past Christmas, feels we should have 'em for emergencies . I will give him that but they are nothing I even use on even a semi-regular basis. I think they are over priced and way the heck over rated! I personally could care less about the darn things and consider them a nusience:mad: And I hear they do give you cancer according to the newest studies coming out, will there ever be alot of people with cancer of the ear this coming generation..LOL:D

That last part was just a joke;)
 
Cathy - there has been a lot of talk about brain cancer and cell phones. Then they say it's just talk and then they start up on it again.

Of course it is over-rated. There is no reason for the high price for a cell phone. there are no overhead wires to be connected to your home for maintenance, etc. like a land phone. I also think we are getting ripped for long-distance calls - I cannot see why those are not free.

And then there is cable tv - why the hell(o) do we have to pay to watch tv? And what's all this crap about the analog tv's not working anymore past February 2009 because of digital?????? BUT if you have cable - your safe.

Now what politicians got their pockets lined for allowing this to happen to us?

What about the poor, low-income, etc. that have nothing but analog and their local stations????

It's all crap - we're getting screwed left, right and center!
 
Mama, the thing about analog being dead is yet another example of the paternalistic gubmint deciding what's good for us. Washington made the decision that the TV airwaves would be 100% digital.

Reason cable is not a problem is that your cable box is already rigged to accept the digital (or, colloquially, HD) signals. Any new television is also ready to accept it.

Old ones, those that required an antennae are not. So your choice is to either buy a new set, or apply for the coupon that gives you a $15 discount on a required fourty dollar purchase.

Once again, I'm from the government. I'm here to help you.

Now then, in terms of paying for TV (why the hell(o) do we have to pay to watch tv?). You don't. Nobody says you have to have cable. That's a choice you make. And cable is provided by a private enterprise company that exists to make money. So, if you want the convenience of having a hundred plus channels not worth watching, you have to pay for the priviledge.

Same if you use a dish. Somebody paid to put those satalittes up there, and to provide the receptor boxes, etc. Why should they give it away?
 
As far as paying for tv - it's gotten to the point that if you don't have cable you have nothing to watch but news and infomercials which have flooded the tv stations worse than spam!

The local stations make more money from infomercials - and if there are any movies on for the weekend - they play the same ones both days - over and over again. No longer do you get the Monday night movie, (and every other day like they used to) on our local stations.

News, informercials, mega-church services on Sundays - sports (if not blacked out) - and not very interesting.

Before cable - you got to watch tv - and see many different programs and see many different movies.
 
Now you got me goin', Mama. Get this, I work for the government.

We have a relatively new employee. Why the boy was hired I still haven't figured out. Oh, well, I will leave that part of it alone. He has had an Ipod glued to the side of his dang head since the day he began. The supervisor ignores it completely. Yet I have heard her complain to a coworker that she speaks too loudly. I have worked with this gal the 15 years and no one has ever complained before.

This over-grown, boy-kid sings while he listens to the da** Ipod. Also, he lets out these loud burps after lunch. Doesn't matter where or in front of whom, he does this. I want to swat him beside the head and teach him some manners that evidently his parents failed to teach him. His office is littered with 2-litre Pepsi bottles, cookies, all sorts of food packets. I believe the world has gone crazy. This behavior has NEVER been permitted there and it is only this kids that gets away with it. No, thought of that, she is not interested in him personally. She is near 60 years old and he is in his early 20's. If she is then she is crazier than I thought. Now, believe me I have my faults, all of us do. But at least I know how to present myself in a professional manner because I am. It no longer seems to be appreciated.

Also, I am the owner of a cell phone. I have had triple by-pass heart surgery and don't want to have a problem and not be able to call for help. Mine is for emergency calls only. They all should be. I seen so many folks who appear to think it is "cool" to have a cell and to be talking on it. They will grow up one day, hopefully :)
 
I'm sorry, Mama, but I have to wonder if we're living in the same world.

Until fairly recently I worked third shift at a motel. I don't have cable here, but did there.

With almost 100 stations available there was practically nothing to watch. About half of the stations are merely sales tools: QVC and its many, many, clones. Most of the rest were either full- or part-time infomertials.

Don't know if you're aware of this, but even the Food Network goes that route. Programming (that is to say, FN's "see how many shows we can repeat until people get nauseous" marathons) ends at 4 in the aunt emma. Infomercials then take over until regular daytime programing starts at 8 or 9, depending.

All in all, out of 99 stations I'd say there were, at most, 8 or 9 offering real content. Not saying how good or bad the content was. But the fact is, I get much more content, proportionately, from the 4 regular networks then I ever did on cable.

Which is one reason I don't have it.
 
We get 5 local stations - all crappy. they did away with the movie of the night each evening and even some of the sports - leaving us with not much to watch.

I have basic cable - and I have already noticed that basic being up to channel 99 - is now offering many more stations that are 100+ and the stations that are 99 and below - are starting to get crappy - almost below the level of the old analog that gave us good stuff!

If you want to watch anything more - pay more - and I don't care what anyone says - it's not right.

and when enough people sign up for those channels they will change to another level - just for more money.
 
MsMai -

I know what you mean. I've seen so much of it. You're kind - a swat to the head. I'd opt for something a little more permanent - like electrical shocks before the frontal labotomy. Or maybe those type have already had the frontal labotomy and that is why they lack common sense and manners.

Can you imagine their homes? Pop bottles and wrappers all over the place??? OMG - I would go nuts. I'm a clean freak - I'd kill anyone that pulled that on me.

His parents should be shot!
 
Well, I will chime in here..

As for cell phones, I agree to a point. I have one for when I go out, but honestly, I use it maybe 3-4 minutes a month. It is nice to have when you have to call the wife: "What did you say you wanted me to get at the store while I was here?", etc.. Idiots that transmit their entire life to a crowd of people are indeed the most annoying. If there were no cell phones, these people would surely find another way to annoy you anyway. As for driving, sure idiots on cell phones are dangerous, but I have also passed many a moron who were reading the newspaper and driving!

Caller ID is the greatest thing since sliced bread. I have to completely disagree with Mama on this one. There are just some times I don't want to talk to relative X. Or sometimes, the caller ID shows me it is my wifes grandmother, so I just hand it to her instead of getting trapped into a 10 minute conversation about arthritis or other such things. Telemarketers that won't take no for an answer? Well, caller ID block works great! I punch in the number I want to ignore and they never get through again.

As for texting, unless I can use a qwerty style keyboard that some phones/PDAs have, then I don't see the point. It takes too long to say anything. I would rather people text in public than talk though.
 
I'm just a low-tech dude. I'm more apt to send smoke signals than send a text or buy a cell phone. I definitely see their uses in some folks' lives. But so far in this life- those uses haven't presented me with themselves to me.

TV? Not me. I watch maybe 4-5 hours of news and PBS a week and MAYBE I'll rent a DVD. Cable? Sattelite? I'd rather spend my money on books and magazines. Again- I don't de-value these things- I understand and appreciate their importance to many folks- I just don't care for it. I do listen to me some NPR though- daily.
 
Cell Phone grief

I have to agree with everyone's opinions on cell phones. I was the Wedding Director at my church in Southern California & several times during the ceremony cells were going off, once it was the Groom himself:eek: and not once but twice during the ceremony and this was after the minister had given the usual speach about turning them off. I have a cell (for business) but I turn it either off or put it to silent as soon as I get out of the car.
 
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