Re: Nomo-phobia

Paul Dormer <prd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> netcat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (netcat) wrote:
>> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> For me, the main cause of mobile related stress is people talking
>>> loudly on their cell phones on the Metro while I'm trying to read.

>> You wouldn't be bothered if they were conversing just as loudly
>> with someone who was right there?

> But they don't.  In my experience, people having a conversation in
> person on a train don't speak anywhere near as loudly as someone
> bellowing into a mobile.

Right.  Besides, if a live conversation makes it impossible for me
to read, I can at least listen to the conversation.  It's no fun
listening to just one side of a phone call.
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