Restuarants Requesting People Turn Off Their Cell Phones.

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All,

I feel like cell phone etiquette is a pretty trendy issue for people to get their vaginas unnecessarily sandy about. I mean, aside from taking calls in church or a movie or class or whatever, or just braying obnoxiously in general, who gives a [censored]? You people talk like you see red when you spot somebody taking a call at Ruth's Chris. How can this offend you? I mean, what business is it of yours?

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Cardo,

I think there is a difference between someone using a cell, which I couldn't care less about, and someone from the next table over shouting into their phone like, uh, like somebody that is really loud.

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Well, I agree, but I don't see how this differs from someone talking loudly under any other circumstances. As previously noted people have a somewhat elevated tendency to shout on their phones, but that's not exactly an ironclad connection. Again, I feel like this is just a popular excuse for self-righteousness more than anything.

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Ok, I'll by this. I've said this for a long time about the hate for cell phone use in cars causing accidents, when it is way, way down the list of distractors that cause accidents. I think it's number 6 behind playing with the radio, eating and drinking, passengers in the car, etc. The number one class of distractors that cause accidents are "Objects external to the vehicle."

The hate for cell phone use while driving is just stupidity fueld by busy-body anti-cell snobs.

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Even if this #6 business is true, that means we shouldn't try to stop it? Because it's not the #1 most dangerous thing on the road? Should we stop trying to cure cancer because it's #2 behind heart disease?

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Thats a stupid analogy because people are trying to cure both cancer and heart disease, but people don't seem to give a [censored] about eating or talking while driving, yet get riled up about using a phone. They just don't like phones and ignore the other, more dangerous, habits.