Comments on: What I had for lunch today.

By: mark

mark — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:50:13 +0000

I like those things people stick in their ears for hands-free phone use. On the sidewalks of the neighborhood where I work, you can’t tell the telephoners from the demented people arguing with the voices in their heads.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:08:09 +0000

Some of my friends have a method very similar to Virgil Samms’s (at no. 3) approach, though ruder. Whenever anyone starts taking on the phone without excusing themselves from the group they just join in the conversation; asking the person on the phone questions and loudly diverting the topic down tangents. This quickly trains people to bugger off when they get a phone call.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:53:42 +0000

I am sitting in a coffee shop right now, I have headphones on, and I can still hear the woman next to me talking very loudly on her phone.

By: Virgil Samms

Virgil Samms — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:12:07 +0000

When I am in a public place and someone’s phone rings and they’re about to answer it, I say to them, “if it’s for me, take a message.”

By: oldcola

oldcola — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:55:11 +0000

Let me tell you this confidentially Greg, and this is not something to repeat outside this blog, not even to your sciblings, one could make a living out of diffusing confidential info heard accidently.
Do you have the video of the lady?

By: Stephanie Z

Stephanie Z — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:06:40 +0000

There are reasons I don’t discuss my work, even generally, in public. Too easy to pass on something that’s incidental but gives too much information about something confidential.