So it's been about 10 years since I got my first cell-phone which was some sponge-bob looking contraption with a little microphone which folded out marketed for the Sprint network. I've gone through 2 carriers and 5 or 6 different phones since then including some Samsung thing, to the Q, a palm TREO, a couple of BlackBerry's and another one which I seem to have erased from my memory hard-drive. All of them had some limitations but for the most part they functioned as telephones and they all had one key feature....the ability to set the ringer to vibrate.


What I don't understand is why so many people feel the need to put their ringer on decibel levels which would threaten a Metallica concert. It's a self-centered act which forces the entire world to stop on account of your text-message or voice-mail. I have been able to completely function in a 'mobile-world' without having to disturb everybody in a 25 foot radius by some obnoxious ring and don't think it's too much to ask that courtesy is reciprocated..

Although I haven't decided which is the most irritating either the jackass who uses some pop-song as their ringer or the jackass who has it set to normal ring at level 10, I think all cell-phone rings should be abolished by a Supreme Court order.  There is no better example of disturbing the peace than some chick's phone blasting some Madonna song every time she gets an email and this kind of behavior should not just be shunned but punished

Now I understand the occasional time a ringer might be necessary like if you are 90 years old or if you were born without nerve-endings but in a world where we are already asked to stop-everything when our own phone rings, we also have to stop everything when another person's phone rings.

I propose the following rules for most social settings you may find yourself in

If you are hanging out and

- somebody's phone rings at a decibel level which startles you they immediately owe you dinner even if you are not hungry

- some chick's phone plays a song which has been played on Z100 in the last three hours she owes you a BJ

- some guy's phone plays a song which has ever been played on Z100 you can immediately stab him the urethra with an ice pick because no dude should ever use a ring-tone in any situation.





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