Mobile Phone Etiquette and you

Why do we find necessary as a society to constantly be on
the phone? If live in or near any big city in the U.S. you
will find the number of people walking the streets on a
daily basis on their cell phones astonishing.

Who are they talking to? Are they talking to each other?
Are they conducting important business while trying clothes
on at the mall?

Are they trading stocks and running companies while eating
lunch at their favorite restaurant?

What is so important that it can’t wait until they are
either in the privacy of their own home or their offices to
discuss?

Etiquette and general respect have all been tossed out the
window. We are now forced to listen to private
conversations about families, bodily functions, doctor’s
visits and everything else imaginable.

Somehow people have managed to forget that they are in a
public place and everyone around them can hear what is
being discusses. And at an above average volume.

Sometimes the topics of conversations are just plain
embarrassing. When we are out with our children doing our
errands and the sort, we usually are not prepared to
explain adult conversations to our little ones.

Maybe people don’t realize we really don’t want to know
what happened when they got drunk in a bar the previous
night.

People forget how loud their mobile phone conversations are
too. Do you really want the bakery girl on the other side
of the store knowing what your test results from the doctor
are?

Maybe someday, there will be a mandatory class when you
purchase a mobile phone. A class that teaches common
courtesy and respect and of course, etiquette.