Rant: We are banning the wrong stuff

vienna · 03-27-17, 06:35 PM

/rant on

Back when cell phones first began to become ubiquitous, I was in a local fast food restaurant and there was a long line. I was about two or three persons behind a guy yapping away on his cell, loud enough to hear it was a very banal conversation. The line moved up slowly and finally cell yapper got to the order counter. He held up his hand in a sort of "wait a minute" gesture to the clerk, and said to the person on the other end "OK, I'm at the counter, what do you want? What? Oh, well, they have..." and proceeded to start reciting the whole of the place's extensive menu. There was an audible reaction from all the rest of the people in the line behind him; I couldn't begin to describe the glaring look given by the clerk who had had to endure the seemingly unending line of customers only to have that jerk pull such a stunt. With admirable restraint, the clerk told the jerk to step aside, let the other, prepared, customers make their orders, and, once he and his cell-mate had made up their minds, to get back in line at the end of the line. This elicited a rousing round of applause from the other customers in line. The result was predictable: the cell jerk took severe, and loud, umbrage in a sort of "How dare you!" attitude. The manager came up to the counter to see what was going on, listened to the clerk's and customers' accounts and told the cell jerk to go to the back of the line. The cell jerk stormed out of the restaurant, followed by the cheers and jeers of the customers...

Blocking the aisles is one thing; having to wait at the checkout because some cell jerk won't stop his/her yapping and deal with finalizing their purchase is just as bad. I say there should be a mandatory installation of localized cell jammers at all check-out counters!...

/rant off

Oh, and, again, Platapus For President!...

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03-27-17, 06:35 PM	#7
vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,719 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	/rant on Back when cell phones first began to become ubiquitous, I was in a local fast food restaurant and there was a long line. I was about two or three persons behind a guy yapping away on his cell, loud enough to hear it was a very banal conversation. The line moved up slowly and finally cell yapper got to the order counter. He held up his hand in a sort of "wait a minute" gesture to the clerk, and said to the person on the other end "OK, I'm at the counter, what do you want? What? Oh, well, they have..." and proceeded to start reciting the whole of the place's extensive menu. There was an audible reaction from all the rest of the people in the line behind him; I couldn't begin to describe the glaring look given by the clerk who had had to endure the seemingly unending line of customers only to have that jerk pull such a stunt. With admirable restraint, the clerk told the jerk to step aside, let the other, prepared, customers make their orders, and, once he and his cell-mate had made up their minds, to get back in line at the end of the line. This elicited a rousing round of applause from the other customers in line. The result was predictable: the cell jerk took severe, and loud, umbrage in a sort of "How dare you!" attitude. The manager came up to the counter to see what was going on, listened to the clerk's and customers' accounts and told the cell jerk to go to the back of the line. The cell jerk stormed out of the restaurant, followed by the cheers and jeers of the customers... Blocking the aisles is one thing; having to wait at the checkout because some cell jerk won't stop his/her yapping and deal with finalizing their purchase is just as bad. I say there should be a mandatory installation of localized cell jammers at all check-out counters!... /rant off Oh, and, again, Platapus For President!... <O> __________________ __________________________________________________ __