I Am A Twat

I couldn't think of any other title for the people who use mobile phones in public. Especially those who do it while driving. Using one while driving is not only illegal it's also plain dangerous and totally lacking in Common Sense or Decency, as these examples will show.

You Almost Killed Me

From: CACSADE
I was pulling onto the M25 at junction 23. Coming off the roundabout the slip road is 2 lanes. I was in the outside lane and a black Granada or similar is on my left. Also in the left hand lane, about 50 yards up, is a car which has stopped to pick up a hitchhiker (dickhead). The Granada sees this car and swerves to avoid it. He obviously hasn't seen me because to avoid him I have to swerve onto the grass verge between the slip road and the motorway. At this point I would have blamed the stantionary car for stopping in a dangerous spot, but the Granada just carried on, blissfully unaware of my presence. When I caught him up, the bastard was, of course, on the phone and didn't even see me when I rolled down my window and flicked the V's at him. If you own a large black Granada and you remember the driver of a green Mini Cooper calling you a c**t, then that was me. You nearly killed me, you tosser.

Where am I going?

From: CACSADE
I'm on the M25 again, and there's a blue Mercedes in front of me who's almost driving in 2 lanes at once. I overtook him and, sure enough, he's on the phone. One hand is holding the phone, the other is rifling through a sheef of papers. He is not looking at the road at all. I assume he is steering with his knee. If the traffic in front had stopped he'd have killed someone, though unfortunately, because he was in a large car, it probably wouldn't have been him. Selfish wanker.

What concert?

From: Norma in North Adams, Massachusetts, USA
I'd just like to say something to the people in front of me at a concert back in April: I paid good money to hear the music of Sonny Rollins, not to hear you yack away on your cell phone. If the call was really an emergency, you should have left the auditorium so the rest of us could hear "Valse Hot". Nobody was very impressed when your husband told me to get a life.
And from the comments I got afterward, a lot of other people felt the same.

Look at Me! I'm Really Popular!

From: Scott in Washington D.C.
This is one I just have to get out. What the hell is wrong with just having a nice quiet meal with the people that YOU decided you wanted to go to a restaurant with? Put down the damn phone and have the courtesy to hold conversation with the people you are ACTUALLY with, OR, you should have gone to the restaurant with whomever it is your yakking with for 30 minutes.
And another thing, if you're in a restaurant or a public place, using a cell phone DOES NOT make it OK to discuss the disgusting details of your sons diaper rash (or whatever else). Have a care for the people around you, those phones don't come with a privacy booth, and WE DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT ON THE METRO RIDE HOME.

Speechless

From: Static in Sydney, Australia
This rant happens to have a happy ending.
You know why cinemas tell movie-goers to switch off their mobile phones? Hmm? It's so someone can't ring you when the movie gets to The Good Bit! And talking quietly doesn't work either. We all applauded the fellow who walked over, took it off you, said "He'll ring you back", hung up and turned it off.

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