I got a new cell phone yesterday. I spent most of the afternoon playing with the sounds, the pictures, the phonebook, everything. I personalized my phone my way by myself alone in my car or office.

While eating lunch today at my favorite resturant, I kept being taken out of my thoughts by cell phone rings. I thought, “Ok Micheal. It is the lunch hour. Many of these patrons are keeping in touch with their various places of buisness. Chill out. It is ok” Then I see it. The noises aren’t coming from a couple dozen cell phones. They were emanating from one nut job who was playing with his phone! A crowded resturant at the height of the lunch hour is not the place to choose between the nokia theme and the 78 other ringtones you have stored on you phone sir!!!! I was angry. This man was a grown man who had a junior high aged daughter. I noticed everyone around him cutting their eyes at him but he was oblivious.

If cell phones were a new novelty I would excuse this man’s social snafu. But guess what? Cell phones aren’t new. Put the phone down and back away slowly.