Traveling Cell Phones

Check out the following link.

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=456&sid=1383626

How many times have I been tempted to do the same thing? Maybe it just goes with being 60+. With as much travel as I do, I find it less than pleasant to hear everyone fire up their cell phones upon landing at an airport just so they can call someone and say, "We just landed and are taxiing in and I'll call you when I get off" or have to listen to some sales guy discuss the arm-twisting techniques necessary to get the president of ACME Corp buy an extra 10,000 widgets.

I also found http://www.phonejammer.com/ (they ship to the US) and am sorely tempted to order one that at least would eliminate the loud conversations within 50 feet of me.

As if air travel wasn't so bad NOW, can you imagine what will happen if the FAA/FCC let US air travelers start using their cell phones in flight? Jeeze, we see too much "air rage" now, so I can't imagine that it would be decreased if you had to get stuck sitting next to some idiot at 35,000 feet while he has a loud conversation with his golf buddy on the ground. (Have you noticed that cell phone users seem to believe that they have to yell to be heard?) When stuck next to someone talking on a cell phone too loudly I am tempted make a call as well and have a loud and colorful conversation.

I guess my rant is really based on the fact that it seems to me that our country has become a country of selfish and self-centered people. I can see it in road-rage incidents, drivers running red lights (and complaining that "red light cameras" are "unfair"), smokers believing that their rights out weigh mine, etc, etc, etc.