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cell phone jammers (was Amtrak - no quiet car)
Miguel Cruz wrote:
In a nutshell, a quiet cellphone call was rated as more annoying by bystanders than a loud face-to-face conversation. The article's author suggests that the reason may be because people inadvertently pay more attention when they can only hear one side of a conversation. Perhaps this is because their brain is suggesting to them that perhaps they should be responding. In any case, it rings true with me - I know I can completely shut out many face-to-face conversations on the train, but it's almost impossible to ignore a cellphone call happening a few rows away, no matter how stupid or boring (is there any other kind?). An interesting follow-up: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=103829&cid=8847959 miguel -- Hit The Road! Photos and tales from around the world: http://travel.u.nu |
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cell phone jammers (was Amtrak - no quiet car)
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 16:21:50 GMT, Miguel Cruz wrote:
... I know I can completely shut out many face-to-face conversations on the train, but it's almost impossible to ignore a cellphone call happening a few rows away, no matter how stupid or boring (is there any other kind?). If the cell phone user really speaks softly, it doesn't bother me. This is rare however. Also, some face-to-face conversations are pretty hard for me to shut out. Especially the ones giving a blow-by-blow description of the speaker's day (or life). "... So then I .... and then I ... " I had the bad fortune to take a long bus ride last week in the seat in front of a woman whose birthday it was. In Italy, sending cards hasn't really caught on. Instead you call the birthday person. I listened to about 35 identical calls. "Oh, thank you so much. No, I'm on a bus just now. I should be home by 10 PM. Ciao!" I kept asking myself how this boring woman could have so many friends. -------- Barbara Vaughan My email address is my first initial followed by my last name at libero dot it. |
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