I hate people who text or pull out their mobile phones while on a date. It’s a clear cut way of saying that I’m not interesting enough to keep you from looking at your phone for more than one hour of your time. Are you really that important? What was the text about? You need to respond back to your friends about some plans you are making for tomorrow? Do you need to pick up a cake for your company office party? Is your self inflated sense of self so large than even the most mundane of tasks can’t wait until you’re done wasting an hour with the guy you are with?
Now yes, of course there are exceptions. Family emergency. Friend in REAL trouble (not that “she’s having boy trouble” excuse). Or even being in charge of a team at work and people rely on your input for an upcoming project deadline. I get it. Sometimes you HAVE to excuse yourself.
But pulling out your phone just because you need to know the name of an actor on IMDB, or an upcoming event that’s 3 months away, is simply flat out rude. And you have just earned yourself few brief moments of silence as I mow down some pedestrians in GTA3 on my Galaxy S3.
That’s funny – I probably actually carry my cellphone about three days a month. MAYBE.
Farkin’ things are more trouble than they’re worth.
Granted, they do have one satisfying use. I collect old phones from people – I recycle electronics. However, I toss the cellphones in a box. When I have a couple dozen, I take them out to the desert and let fly at them!
40-gr Hornady SXSP leaving a 16″ barrel @2,300fps still has enough energy to make a phone EXPLODE 250 yards away! (Yes, I do remove the batteries first, and I usually have a sheet down and a stop up to catch all the parts. I don’t think I’ve ever left anything out there bigger than a thumbnail…)
VERY satisfying, and easier to explain than using explosives (which is usually how I really feel about the damned things…)
That actually sounds like it would be fun.
It is. Most gratifying.
My record for a first-shot cellphone hit is a paced-off 475 yards – which, with a .223 out of a 16″ barrel, is pretty damned good!
Long-range rifle work is a Zen thing for me – about as close as I ever get to being able to meditate…
Maybe you should go out with girls that actually like you! Maybe they get uninterested in you when you tell them i do comics lol.
Really? Usually my mentioning I do a webcomic ends up with everyone in the room getting down and doing the nasty. But it’s Europe. It’s what they do here.
usually I wouldn’t take the females side … but c’mon that bow tie? how can he expect to get laid wearing that?!?
Bow ties are cool.
I always thought reaching the save point was more important than the date
It can be.
I thought the etiquette rule on that was to put your phone on vibrate, or turn it off. The latter, more so if you’re really interested in your date and want to get laid that night.
I usually turn my phone to silent. I even make it a point to not take my phone out when my date goes to the rest room. Would much rather look at everyone else in the room look at their phones.
Exactly! When someone starts texting on a date, start doing the same. Text your date that you are leaving.
Nice one. I don’t think it’s ever gotten to that point with me.
It’s a great way of saying “you’re the least important thing in the room”
Ain’t that the truth.