Reach out and touch someone

Wow, I'm a big slacker... haven't posted in 3 weeks. Same quandry... wonderful random thoughts while driving. Sit in front of the computer, and my mind turns into cottage cheese... and I hate cottage cheese.

anywho.

Does anyone else hate cell phones as much as I do? What a wonderful invention, that through overuse and abuse, has become one of the worlds' greatest annoyances.

Now, I know all the positives of having one these pocket sized comm-links, but lets explore some of the ways people have forgotten their manners. Just the other day, C and I are having a nice lunch at the Olive Garden... when all of the sudden, two tables over a fire alarm goes off, no... an ambulance drives by, no... wait I think its the Bat phone, no, not the Batphone? Well only the caped crusader would/should need to have the volume of his phone ON, and cranked to ELEVEN, and that's only when expecting a call from Commissioner Gordon. Well, this guy didn't even look like Bruce Wayne.

And, answer me this. Why do movie theatres, and even churches need to remind people to silence their phones? Because people are lazy, ill mannered, stupid, inconsiderate, just some English pigs with no brain.

And then there are the ring tones. Do we really need to here the first ten seconds of someone else's favorite song digitalized like it was played through a child's See 'N Say, but at the volume of a 94 civic with the complete slammed ground effects kit and rollin' with the boomin' system. You know , the Hi-Fi equipped with the TK-421 upgrade? (those little rolling juke boxes are a whole rant to themselves, but for another time)

What if the hostesses of restaurants were given the right to confiscate the offender's phone until they finished their meal? Just like Game Boys in Physics class: "If I see it again, its mine until the end of class!" Wouldn't that be awesome.

Feel the anger.