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Ban the Overuse of Cell Phones in Public, Please! It is time to show some politeness.

Honestly, can we not just sit down to a meal and enjoy it without a worry of cell phones ringing around us? It is just rude. Yes, of course cell phones should be banned from where we eat at or other establishments, which we may offend people, by intruding on their right not to hear out annoying conversations with other people, as business is being is transacted. There are too many reasons why we should not use our cell phones in restaurants:

1.At my bank, the sign outside reads: "If you are talking on your cell, you will not be helped."

2.At most restaurants, I go to, there is a sign which will read: "Please turn off your cell while eating."

3.At the hospitals they ask, "Please do not leave your cell phone on."

4.At my own doctors office, there are two signs. One says, "The doctor is the only person who sits on the round stool." The other says, "If you are talking on the cell, when the doctor comes in, he will not treat you." Good medical doctors are hard to find, so I do as I am told to keep my appointment.

5. Once I had a doctor, I waited for two hours for my appointment and I was sick, sick. When he arrived in the room, his phone went off. He took it and discussed how to cement his driveway for ten minutes. I got a new doctor. My son in law is a medical student, I tell him these stories so he will never do this, unless of course, it is an emergency. Otherwise it is not nice.

6. Not one morning goes by, I do not stop at a light and find everyone else waiting are on their phones.

7.Do we really care if someone is on the phone, at a table near by and keeps asking, "Can you hear me now?"

These things just tell me Americans are tired of listening to personal conversations other people are forced to hear.

7. Once, I sat at a play, "The Helen Keller Story." It was a great play, but at that moment of intensity, where the teacher is getting Helen to spell w-a-t-e-r, someone's phone rings, and they answer it.

8. Even at a book lecture, an author tells of his book and it is he most interesting thing I have heard in years, someone's phone rings. Then she has the gall to not only answer, but to continue talking out loud, while the poor man is trying to explain the Creek Indians of the South and how they made pottery and integrated into the other cultures. I wanted to go over and whop this little lady at the back of the head, for being so incredibly rude, you know like the commercial, "Wow I could have had a V8.". I was a lady and did not do this. But, the librarian did take it away. Good for her!

And do not even get me started about the people who prefer the things in the ears, as they walk around talking to themselves or you and themselves, because they have a phone call. That is another story.

Americans think we can talk on the sell whenever we want too. We tend to keep our attitudes, 'because we are Americans, we can do whatever we please.' Well, maybe we can, mostly. But we are still rude as heck. And sometimes, we do not get our way with everything. It is time we as Americans start being a little more considerate of the others surrounding us and put our cells on hold, for a while. Really, can't we just put the phones down and eat out lunches or dinners, and enjoy a good conversation with a friend? Or better yet, enjoy the quietness of it all, sometimes?

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