What cell phone habits by some people bother you the most?

Wednesday 04th March, 06:56 AM JST

› Login to comment

Latest 15 of 55 Total Comments Show All

Brunobear at 06:33 AM JST - 5th March

It is bad enough someone has to answer their cell phone in company of others, but they always have to shout when they speak. I would rather have the dentist drilling my teeth than listen to someone else on a cell phone, noisily pretending they are important. It is really bad when I am eating my McDonald's meal and the person on the table next to me starts shouting on his phone. I feel like tipping my king size coke over his dopey head. We should invent nice red street phone boxes where people can make their phone calls in private. Could be a recession buster!
Mz at 07:07 AM JST - 5th March

horserfella - mobile phone conversations are irritating to those around the speaker pretty much everywhere so why single out the train? randomenigma - you're absolutely right. BUT a friend of mine HAD to take a call and lowered her voice and covered her mouth - she was more or less ordered off the train! Another friend speaking to her friends (in person, in Danish) on a train was shushed by a woman standing next to her!
Mz at 07:07 AM JST - 5th March

Annoying ring tones
jaybeeb at 07:44 AM JST - 5th March

people READING their phones while walking/running/riding a bicycle. Can't tell you how many times I've had to make awkward maneuvers in order to avoid hitting such people.
hoserfella at 09:42 AM JST - 5th March

Mz- Trains just seems to be the obvious choice of place, but I include restaurants or anywhere else people congregate
aikisako at 09:45 AM JST - 5th March

it annoys me that they don't use payphones :}
pointofview at 10:25 AM JST - 5th March

fusedentropy,

I agree. This happened to me yesterday. Although I tend to not use my phone on the train I had an important call about work. As soon as I sat down a guy started blabbing away at me to get off in a rude way. But said nothing to the 2 other people talking away. I was only on the phone for about 3 minutes so I didnt think it would be a problem. I just told him to stick it. People who email away when Im trying to have a conversation with them bothers me a bit.
tsukki at 12:35 PM JST - 5th March

those with very loud ringtones. my officemate's phone is so loud that everyone on our floor could hear it. what's worse is his ringtone is some song sung by a girl with a high-pitched voice. it really startles everyone.
Wottock_Hunt at 05:26 PM JST - 5th March

Something else that gets on my nerves is if I go for a wee wee in an office building and there's somebody in a cubicle, evidently mid-bowel movement, engrossed in a business call and givving it all the earnest "hai, hai, wakarimashita" palaver. I'm sure the person on the other end of the line wouldn't be quite so impressed with the diligence and keigo of his interlocutor, were he to know that he's sitting there with his trolleys round his ankles with a pendulous turdcicle.

And what kind of telephone conversation is so important it can't wait until you've finished parking your breakfast? It's come to a pretty pass when a man's expected to conduct business when he's doing his business.

And with that kind of multi-tasking skill, why does he then need fourteen hours to do a day's work?
rafraf128 at 06:06 PM JST - 5th March

when someone beeps my mobile, meaning he/she wants to speak to me but it's me who dials his/her number (i pay the bill), then if i did start the talk, long hours and high bill would be at a stake. To those concerned.... stop!!!
Nessie at 06:36 PM JST - 5th March

Something else that gets on my nerves is if I go for a wee wee in an > there's somebody in a cubicle, evidently mid-bowel movement, engrossed in a business call and givving it all the earnest "hai, hai, wakarimashita" palaver. I'm sure the person on the other end of the line wouldn't be quite so impressed with the diligence and keigo of his interlocutor, were he to know that he's sitting there with his trolleys round his ankles with a pendulous turdcicle.

Just shout, "Nagashite kudasai!"
Nessie at 06:38 PM JST - 5th March

Shouting "nagashite kudasai" works on subway trains, too.
nausicaa at 01:07 AM JST - 6th March
- people talking realllllly loudly on them. i feel like entering the conversation since they are so willing to take their private conversation into the public.
- people driving vehicles or riding bikes while on their cells!
- people who insist on playing music for everyone to hear (in an enclosed space like a subway / streetcar etc)
OhioDonna at 05:10 AM JST - 6th March

People like the woman who was recently arrested after an accident. Her exuse: She was talking on her cell phone while trying to light a cigarette. She also happened to be very intoxicated.
Ranger_Miffy at 05:50 AM JST - 6th March

I've totally given up being annoyed by whatever idiocy I see. It's just become the pattern that determines this time and place in history. I wonder what the communication scene will be in ten or twenty years?