10 Places You Shouldn’t Use Your Mobile Phone

Posted on April 16, 2011 by admin

Somehow I have not seen the sign on the front door of my Doctor’s office.  In fact his building is also home to about seven other doctors, and the sign that is surely there would stand for one and all of the physicians.
I had seen the Doctor on this occasion and with my lab orders in hand was waiting for the lab technician to call me.  Then I looked up and saw the pretty sign, “Turn off your cell phone”.  It wasn’t just on the wall I was facing, it was on the wall behind me, in the lab a couple places, in the bathroom etc. etc.  I sheepishly reached into my purse and turned the volume down so not even a mouse could hear it.  I felt better.

1. A doctor’s office is not the only place where our Cell phone should not be used.
2. What about the Hospital?  Any business office, Places of worship, Courts.
3. Regardless of how we think we can’t wait to pull over somewhere to the shoulder of the road, or even to a rest stop to make our call, we are learning daily of the dangers of driving and talking on the phone.  Call me a multi-tasker if you will, but it is dangerous to be on the cell phone while trying to dodge traffic.  It is proven that one who is preoccupied with a cell phone has tunnel vision.  Peripheral vision is dead during cell phone conversations.
4. Never, but never use your mobile phone while pumping Gas into your car.  There is much controversy about the dangers, both pro and con, but why take the chance.  If anything err on the side of caution.
5. Occasionally, at least in the beginning, I have heard cell phones blast out a country song during church!!  The owner of the phone was embarrassed they had not turned it off.  However it did remind the rest of us to check the ringer at the door – it could be very disrupting to anyone trying to hear the sermon should your phone ring.
6. There are signs on an airplane which tells you when and if your phone can be used.  There is an airplane silencer on most phones.  In case of terrorists’ attacks the phone is a great tool to have, otherwise it should be kept in its container until landing.
7. It would also be very disrupting in a Movie theatre to hear a mobile phone ring, and someone with the audacity to answer it.  Remember to put the ringer on vibrate or silence and hopefully any caller would leave a voice message or a text.
8. Please don’t even think of using your cell/mobile phone during a wedding ceremony!  Very disrespectful to the Bride and Groom on their special day.
9. I’m totally against cell phones in the class room.  It is too easy to send or receive text messages when a student has a phone laid on the desk beside their book, or in the hand.  I would trust the use of mobile phones while in the class room is already banned.  If not – then maybe they should be.
10. Then there are those who insist on keeping their phone on during a visit.  For example, while dining with some young people before Christmas, I felt totally out of the loop and very little conversation was had, because each of them kept texting, and reading text.  I wondered if they were texting each other!  They thought it was funny.  Part of the normal.  However I failed to see anything but the disregard of my presence at the table, and the purpose of our visit was almost lost as whoever was on the receiving end of their text was more important than I was at the time.   My lesson learned.

Call me old fashion that is all right.  Sometimes old school pupils know a little bit more about etiquette than this generation cares to learn.
(source:shopphoneservice.com)
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