To wish the use of mobile phone use in public was restricted to 20 words?

[angelos02]

I am half-joking and know it would be impossible to police etc but I've just had to sit on a bus for 45 minutes near a woman yinging on about nothing on her mobile phone. I was 3 rows in front and could hear every word. Fair enough, briefly ring people to say you are running late, sort meeting arrangements etc but please don't bore a dozen people around you for ages.

Flossyfoof presumably because she was on the cross trainer ...

I heard someone on the radio recently criticising a writer for making young adult characters talk to each other on the phone - she said they just don't, these days. If only, I thought. Or perhaps it's just when they're on my bus.

What amazes me is people talking loudly on their phones about very personal details. Why would you want to tell the whole bus something very personal?

*Some idiots people think their life is of interest to strangers. It isn't....ever.

YANBU, not at all. People are so intrusive and determined to involve everybody else in their mundane doings. 20 words is generous really.

People generally talk much more loudly on their phones than they do in normal conversation. If they could hear themselves, they'd cringe... or maybe not reading some of the 'do what I want' posters here, but they should.

We all had to listen to some woman on the bus recently telling her friend that she was going into town because she needed new bras for breastfeeding etc etc