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[pct-l] Technology on the Trail



My complaint wasn't so much about cellphones - I
carried one along the PCT myself - but rather about
rudeness.  We individuals don't have the right to
annoy others merely for our own convenience.  Most
seem to understand this, and like our mother taught
us, we keep the volume down in normal conversation. 
Most cell phone users also understand this, but many
don't.  In particular, those with headsets are loud. 
Perhaps they don't even realize it.  I don't know. 
But it is still rude.

I expect that if I interrupted their cell phone call
with a tap on the shoulder and my own question, they
would think me rude.  They would be right.  I don't
have the right to interfere with them either.

My irritation stems from the loudness, not with the
conversation itself.  Loud conversations are just not
appropriate in certain places, like movies, theater,
libraries, churches, etc.  Luckily, most understand.

Larry

--- dsaufley@sprynet.com wrote:

> Larry, 
> 
> I'm just curious about this as it's something I've
> thought about.  Would you be as irritated with the
> "boring, inane, personal or business conversations"
> if the person they were talking to on the cell phone
> was actually present, and you could still hear their
> conversation?  This time of course, you'd get both
> boring sides.  
> 
> -=Donna Saufley=-
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: larry hillberg <walkinglarry@yahoo.com>
> Sent: Jan 19, 2005 6:10 AM
> To: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Technology on the Trail
> 
> 
> On a recent trip, I spent many hours sitting around
> airports for various reasons.  (Has anyone besides
> me
> noticed how airplanes, airports, security, etc. have
> stolen the journey away from us and left us with
> only
> a raging desire to reach our destination?)  Please
> do
> not allow the PCT to be like that for yourself.  You
> will miss the point of it all.
> 
> At these airports and elsewhere nowadays, the phone
> conversations have become far louder due to
> headsets. 
> At first I thought this was due to people being
> ruder
> nowadays, which they are.  But much like your
> teenager
> shouts to you in normal conversation because they
> are
> connected to their walkman, so too do those engaged
> in
> phone conversations wearing their headsets.  Whether
> or not one is interested, we are forced to listen to
> boring, inane, personal or business conversations in
> every public place.  On this last trip, in the men's
> room, I heard one such conversation from behind the
> closed door of a stall.  Is there no peace from it?
> 
> So far, I have not lost my cool in the face of this
> modern form of rudeness.  On the PCT, I would.
> 
> Larry H
> 
> 
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