Thank you for the post. Ther is nothing worse that listening to someone else's conversation when you are trying to have your own.

Tricia, count me in. Great post and very relevant! Thanks!

For a while I was always hanging up on friends when unknown numbers would call in so I was always picking up the phone... But I realized that was rude and now call back the person that is calling me if I'm already on another call

I hate it when I'm next to somebody using their cell phone and they are yelling and I can't even have my own conversation on my cell phone!!!!  Or even worse when you are in your car and while on your cell the passenger in your car takes a call and talks louder than YOU!!!

I agree I need a cell phone jammer!!

The Borg Collective? Hillarious.

I have the biggest problem with these contractor folk barking away on their "Nex-tails." I used to sell mobile phones before I got into the real estate biz. I've been guilty of public displays of phone affection, but the people who talk on their two-way radios without putting them on private, drive me batty!

These are the precise reasons I do not want cell phones on planes.  Can you imagine having to listen to someone else's conversation for 3 hours

Love the post. I was a victim, until my wife came along and taught me cel phone ediquette quite early into out relationship. Apparently answering my phone during a romantic dinner was a bad thing? :) 

 Have a great week Tricia. 

Dan  

Great post.  Unfortunately, I was guilty of some of those transgressions.  I pledge to try and do better....

If I am talking to someone and they put me on hold, they've got about 15 seconds to get back to me or I'm hanging up since the 2nd call must be more important (sometimes it is). I've walked out of restaurants in the middle of meals over it as well.  There is nothing worse than the rudeness of mindless phone conversations taking place when you have a live person right in front of you...nothing except texting of course!

Tricia - I try not to commit these offenses, although I'm sure that I have at some point.  Great post on this topic.

Nancy, agreed.  I hate going out to dinner and not being able to converse with my dinner conversations because of the distracting cell phone conversation at the next table.  (Somehow conversation between the two people at the table next door is not as distracting, probably because of the volume factor.)

Jeanene, welcome to the movement! 

Scott, isn't it hard to let those calls to go voicemail?  I've gotten a lot better about it, but I still have to make myself ignore that annoying beep in my ear letting me know I've got a call coming in.

Ryan, you do realize that the cell phone jammer would jam your cell phone that you're talking into while you can't get away from someone talking into theirs, don't you? ;-)

Jay, that's an interesting question.  Is it more annoying to have to listen to one side of a conversation or both sides?

Allen, I suspect the flight attendant would be tempted to swing by and pick up the phone and toss it . . . somewhere . . . if someone talked on their phone for an entire 3 hour flight!

Daniel, yes, I do suspect that would be less than acceptable! ;-)

Linda, thanks for taking the pledge!

Amanda, you know firsthand how annoying it is.  Are you going to get a jammer?

Jason, it does take constant attention to get into the habit of not doing these things, doesn't it?

Tricia--I'm thinking hammer instead of jammer. 

I know this device is illegal but it could be useful to avoid that annoying people who insists in disturbing our silence... For the ones who also liked the idea, I've found a video (http://www.weshow.com/us/p/22051/cell_phone_jammer) that shows some interesting information about cell phone jammers: its functions, how it looks like inside and the best part is an information we all want to know: how effective it is. Hmm... I liked this video, maybe these informations can be useful in the future...   

I was a late adopter of the cell phone technology. Just didn't get it..... but, of course, I was in inside sales at the time.

Since then, I have already taken the pledge!!!

Tricia,

I started out with a cell phone just for emergencies.  When I was hauling my kids and horses to lessons and shows, it was good to have on hand.  Don't want to get stuck on the road with any of them without communication.  But, since I have gotten into the Real Estate business, it is now a necessity.  When I ride, I do not answer the phone.   I take the phone with me in case of an emergency.  I do try to be considerate of others.  Good post to remind us about cell phones.

Nice post!  I agree with there being an appropriate time and place to make or take a call.  If a call comes in that is important and I'm in a public place I will normally step outside to take it.

Another thing with the cell phone technology that I am still getting used to is the bluetooth integrated into the cars.  Several times now I have had a conversation with a realtor thinking I was only on the phone with them only to hear someone else speak up and figure out that they have me on speaker through the car stereo system and everyone in the car heard me.

Should it be common courtesy to inform the person you are calling that they are on speaker and that their clients are in the car with them?

I am just now getting used to the realtors on my team doing it to me as well, I assume they are doing it unless I know for a fact otherwise.

LOL, Amanda!  Well, that's one way to deal with it. 

Leila, thanks for the link.  I'll go check it out when I'm finished here.

Tom, good for you!  I, too, tend to hold back a bit on the new things, perhaps because I spent so many years being the "guinea pig" for fabulous new programs and technology that now I prefer to let other folks work the kinks out and THEN I'll jump on board! 

Brigita, living in the country as I do and driving the back roads, even before becoming an agent a cell phone was a necessity, and one of the first things I gave my daughter when she got her driver's license and would be driving herself 15 miles to school - that, a AAA card, and a credit card just in case she couldn't reach her Dad or I.  Gave me real peace of mind.  Plus, it came in handy when my mare miscarried twins in the back pasture and I needed to be catching and taking care of her and calling the vet at the same time. 

Diana, that one hadn't even occurred to me, since I haven't yet taken the leap to a bluetooth for my car (the one on my ear is Borg enough for me at the moment).  Yes, indeed, it would seem to be common courtesy to inform a caller that they're on speaker phone in a car just as it is in an office.