Great idea: Shut the hell up, cell phone talkers

 Posted by on 5 May 2009  Modern Life
May 052009
 

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Wouldn’t this be great? I found this after following link after link at the Coudal Partners website. It’s just one of several options that they’ve designed to deal with this modern annoyance in a civilized fashion. Read their original post here, where Jim Coudal says:

“My own take on it is that people who have private conversations in public have the ability to completely cut out the rest of the world and be selfish. Unfortunately the rest of the world doesn’t have the reciprocal ability.”

Of course, the worst cell phone users are the ones in movie theatres — pro tip: even if you’re just texting, the light is bright for the rest of us, jerk.

I want to know why Wal-Mart can build a building that completely blocks my cell phone signal, but the movie theatre people can’t. Switch construction companies, you two!!

(download a pdf of the cards! There are MANY different varieties — I encourage you to print them all off, and use them liberally)

Grant Hamilton

  • Stumpy

    This is awesome. I kinda wish I had these cards back in the day when I was writing a finance exam and someone took a phone call right in the middle of it, and refused to leave the room! He just kept talking – who does that!

  • MPot

    I could SO use these on the bus to work and back everyday. These people have no idea how sad and boring their lives are . . . to those, like me, whose lives consist of listening to their conversations.

  • Naomi

    I have to admit, I would love this. For all those times people are texting and talking in class…I swear i only checked facebook once this term from my phone, but it was so damned boring.

    Seriously though, people should keep it down, or maybe have private conversations in private, unless they want me to know about their back hair problems. :)

  • Colin Corneau

    I think we’re all on the same page on this issue

    Although, when I was in Hong Kong some years back, I was amazed at the difference with cellphone usage there. They’re everywhere, and it doesn’t seem to be considered rude to use them anywhere.
    Maybe because they truly are indispensable for life in that crazy city — no one is ever home terribly often, and a lot of people don’t bother with a landline at all; mobile phones really are the be-all and end-all, as opposed to a rather mindless (and often frivolous) distraction over here.