Save Me From My Cell Phone

By Rodney L. Sharp

Claiming freedom of speech is every American's right, however I am drawing the line in the sand when you are abusing the people around you in restaurants, malls, super markets, etc. by cursing and using loud obnoxious language while using your cell phone. This behavior may well become a legal matter that the courts and lawmakers will have to decide (cell phone abuse). Until then, Save Me from My Cell Phone paints a very unflattering picture of the people who push the limits of freedom of speech using their cell phones in public. If it was only morons with bad tempers and bad language we might be able to put up with it. Operating cars and putting lives in danger is another issue all together. Most people realize the power of the cell phone and us it with some restraint. This book is for all of the other idiots who need to learn how.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rodney L. Sharp
• Release date: Feb 20, 2011
• ISBN: 9780983318392

Rodney L. Sharp

Rod is an Information Technology Consultant who has observed and recorded his findings for years. His new book "Save Me From My Cell Phone" simply expended to the Observations to a larger group of people. Please read and enjoy the humor.

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Save Me From My Cell Phone

Published by Rodney L. Sharp at Smashwords

Copyright 2011 Rodney L. Sharp

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Save Me From My Cell Phone

The book will change the way we communicate by cell phone forever!

It’s for all those loud mouth, annoying, arrogant, self absorbed, idiots driving in the left lane talking on the phone (putting everyone’s life in danger by barely doing the speed limit or speeding up and slowing down in between texting), yelling into their phones at restaurants, malls, stores, with the Look at me I’m important, I have to take a cell phone call attitude.

It’s for every putz out there intruding on your privacy. For every obnoxious clod who interrupts the soothing sounds in the park (birds, wind rustling in the trees, the gentle sounds of people in polite civilized conversation), strolling down the street, in hallways, and worst of all in public restrooms.

For you pathetic dolts; please read this book!

And if you can’t read, have someone read it to you over your cell phone calls, and maybe you’ll get the picture that you’re actually bothering people, like a little kid whose parents have given him or her a whistle, and the child blows the whistle, not constantly, but loudly enough and at inopportune times that it’s distracting, and hopefully makes you think about silence, and using a little common sense when you’re out in public. Those who have never shared a blissful moment of silence or an awkward pause in a conversation, you must be in La-La Land to actually believe you’re the center of attention when you’re shouting demands (reasonable or otherwise) into your cell phone in public. It’s as if Jerry Springer went on vacation, and you’re in charge of the show as host, guest and referee where ever you go.

The other not so subtle hint you might take away from this book is that 40 states now have concealed carry laws; i.e., people who are allowed to conceal guns on their person, and use them when necessary). These people can get angry, maybe even angry enough to think Who is that annoying jerk jabbering on his cell phone, and how can I shut him up?

This book is also for those who get road rage if you’re driving two miles under the speed limit while yammering into your cell phone, not paying attention to what lane you’re in. The fact is, you probably don’t know you’re pissing off everyone, you don’t know that the crazies are on the road, and by many people’s standards, you’re one of them, and this book might actually make you aware of some of those other people out there, which might just save your pitiful life.

When using cell phones in public places, you need to be aware of your own behavior and ultimately the behavior of others. It’s the right and the safe thing to do.

Foreword

This book is also for everyone who plays by the rules, who wants a kinder, gentler cell phone community, and who despises cell phone abuse. More importantly, it's for those abusers who don’t realize they’re doing it, or even worse, don't care.

In the 1980s, Japan was selling Americans billions of dollars worth of electronic devices―stereos, radios, CD players, computers and cell phones. During this era of excess, Japan levied fines on the owners of high-rise buildings that cast shadows on smaller structures. In other words, high-rise owners had to pay for abusing the available sunlight, thus causing pain and suffering to those who were deprived of their right to light.

While people are not yet subject to being fined for cell phone abuse in public, for annoying, irritating, and interrupting everyone around them, in this era of liberal, progressive, Nanny-State over-regulation, such laws in America, could easily be just around the corner.

Every day in the United States, there are new laws written to deal with ever-encroaching technology, and I say, let the punishment fit the crime. When the Founding Fathers created the Constitution, they wanted to prevent cruel and unusual punishment, right? But they never had to sit in a restaurant with half-a-dozen loud cell phone conversations going on while you're trying to enjoy a peaceful meal. This issue is simple the morons on the phone don’t realize that you are paying for the meal and ambiance. And when they are talking loud and acting crazy, they should have to pay for part of your meal and ruining the ambiance. I complain and work the check down in price depending on the loudness and obnoxious behavior of the offender.

Twenty years ago a friend of mine said that tailgating should be a death penalty offense. At the time I thought, that’s a bit extreme. Yeah, extreme if it’s not you, but maybe not-so-extreme if it’s happening to you.

Prologue

Did you ever look in the mirror after you yelled at someone and thought who the hell is that raging, ranting idiot, then realized that crazy person is you. When this happens there’s usually the sobering thought that you might need to shut up, calm down, compose yourself, or even apologize to the person you went off on, and also all the people who witnessed your tirade.

This familiar scene goes on everywhere. It’s nearly at epidemic proportions, at event so common-place that cell rage is an everyday occurrence with some people. More and more people choose public cell phone rage as their first line of communication rather than their last. And if it’s someone whom they may never see again, then all-the-better. Acts like this, assault and battery, and other offences degrade our society at all levels. It’s a grossly insensitive act, just one notch below wife and child abuse.

Type A personalities can be prone to cell phone anger, but not all A Listers do this kind thing all the time in public. The truth is no one makes a steady habit of it, but like littering, it only needs to happen once to start a trend, and then everywhere you drive, walk and run becomes a bloody arcade of high pitched noise that you and the rest of the civilized world can’t get away from. It’s bad now, but imagine what it will be like in 10 to 20 years with no way to control it in sight. For those who don’t like the government in your face – keep up the belligerence, keep yelling profanity. Laws are coming for this kind of behavior, so police yourself now before local, state, or even federal regulations are enacted to stop you. Right now many states prohibit cell