After a bit of a hiatus on this series and a longer poll than I originally had planned, it’s finally closed. The new poll is reader submitted and is a bit controversial, as are the answers the reader provided….if you’re offended, then don’t vote. Here are the results on the poll about cell phones:
Do you use your cell phone (talk/text/game) while you’re eating at a restaurant?
- Not unless there’s an emergency (44%, 87 Votes)
- No, I think it’s rude to the people I’m eating with (43%, 84 Votes)
- Yes, sometimes I get bored (9%, 18 Votes)
- Yes, I always have people to talk to (2%, 4 Votes)
- Yes, it’s just second nature to me. (2%, 4 Votes)
I put this poll online because of the latest influx of stupid people talking on their cell phones after telling me they’re ready to order. I then have to stand there for 10 minutes waiting on the guest to shut the fuck up, hang up the phone or at least pull it away from their head, then actually look at the menu to decide what they want. I get to listen to more pieces of conversation than I ever wanted to about people having sex, the positions they have it, and the frequency of which they have it. I know which of the regular guests are doing which drugs, and which dead beat dads owe child support. There’s nothing worse than going to a table and having a hand held in your face because the guest is too busy talking.
Many of these guests are very, very loud, and many more have some very ghetto and redneck accents, so other guests bitch about them, in turn leading me to bitch either at them or about them. Then we have the guests, and these are mainly teenagers, that spend their time texting, usually back and forth together from opposite sides of the table, and they take time out to ignore you.
Maybe it’s just that I’m a little bitchier than normal right now because I’ve had a very big lack of sleep this weekend. Long night last night, long day today, tying them together and you have a Ribeye who is probably more tired than I’ve ever been before….and I haven’t even had my shift at the restaurant yet. Only a meeting at the other job this morning and I came home to try nap….
I’m gonna move on now to a quick edition of Ghetto Names, then I’m going to try to nap for a couple of hours.
Ghetto Names of the Week:
Ladies: Corteallia
Natural
Brelonda
Gentlemen: LaNesterly
Ospario
Jermace
Well everyone, that’s about it for now. There will be more as soon as I have more time, or more sleep, whichever comes first.
Ribeye
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July 14th, 2008 at 5:39 am
Just walk away from them. They’ll get the point. When they flag you down, you can simply say, “Oh, I didn’t realize you were off the phone… Would you care to FINALLY place your order?”
Make THEM wait, not the other way around…
July 14th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
I try not to use my cell phone in a restaurant at all. I usually remember to shut it off first. There’s a reason why voicemail exists, and I gladly use it when appropriate.
I used to work in this little cafe in downtown Boston, in the financial district. I was the cashier, I took orders and money. The place was always wicked busy for breakfast and lunch rushes.
Just about every damned day, there’s be some yuppie asshole yapping on a cell phone, when it got to be his or her turn in line. Most of the time, they’d not realize that I was trying to get their attention, and keep yapping, rather than giving me their order.
When that happened, I’d just motion for the next person to come and order…then of course, cell-phone asshole would suddenly notice that I’d been trying to wait on him/her, and get all pissy at me.
Well, too bad for them, that is what they get for not hanging up the damned phone!
July 15th, 2008 at 1:17 am
Good God, the cell phone. Bane of my existence.
I had a fellow at the drive through (I’m a pharmacy intern) ding the bell for our attention. As I’m standing there at the window.
I turn on the mic and say, “Hello, how can I help you?” His cell phone rings and he answers it while doing the hold up a finger in the “wait for a second” pose.
I’m new to the company and the store, only been an intern a few weeks, so I’m still unfamiliar with store policies. There’s a computer back there, I get on with some other things. He finally says to the guy on the phone, “Yeah, I’m heading over there as soon as I get help here.”
So I say, “What can I do for you today, sir?” He tells me his last name, I go get his prescription, maybe 10 seconds away from the window. By this time he has rolled up the window on his car and is now talking on his phone where I have no hope of getting his attention. 5 minutes go buy, he dings the bell and looks agitated that I didn’t wait for him. We do the whole transaction thing, I pass his credit card slip to sign through the thing. He takes the clipboard and proceeds to talk for a while longer on the phone. He asks for a pharmacist since it’s a new medication. He still has my clipboard with credit card slip.
The pharmacist comes over. He does the finger “hold on” to her. She says, “Oh hell no” under her breath and proceeds to yell at him for wasting her and her interns time.
He said he was calling our boss. Our boss hates they put the drive through in and will go nowhere near a patient on a cell phone. I think we’ll be fine.
Whole process took almost 20 minutes. Got to love the ease of the drive through.
Whole story dragging around to my point being: cellphones accentuate the jerkiness of already asshole-ish people.
July 15th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
I really hate cell phones. The only good thing that came out of HIPPA (I work in a pharmacy) is that now we have a legitimate excuse to refuse to wait on ppl who keep yapping on their phones! Unless you’re picking up a medication for someone else, and you’re carrying on a conversation w/that person about the medication you are picking up, our staff refuses to wait on anyone who is on a cell phone at the pharmacy counter. What a great thing!
July 16th, 2008 at 12:12 am
I use my cellphone when I’m waiting on a server and/or my food (the restaurant I usually go to hands me the bill with the food- odd, but that’s one less thing to wait for; I also have to bring the bill to the counter myself). It’s usually just browsing the web, though, not actual talking.
July 25th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Hey there, just found your blog because Google Reader recommended it to me. So two things:
1. I wish I had seen this poll before! One day during law school, whilst very bored and trying to not study, I went through the baby registry at a big local hospital and made a list of the most ghetto names I could find and the parents’ names. My favorite of all time was Frenchairetwo….daughter of Frenchaire.
I was amazed at the proliferation of apostrophes and vowel/consonant combinations. Other gems included:
Kemyhjae MarKavian
Tra’Nesia Kamajae
Na’Hijah Keonni
Tytianna SorRay’
Ke’maurian Dewayne
Ja’Keyvia Shantrise
Ja’Khristan, daughter of Arquvias
Jy’Lynn LaPromyce
Cyni-A Lacole
Ta’Miyah Cashe
Daveyon Devonta-Samual
De’vountae Demonde
Sid’kney Makai Lashone
Mi’Coyrein De’Andrea
Sha’Myria Karletha, daughter of Sharon and Peter (???)
Breelinncia Kylin
Aavryanna Lenall
Mind you, this is only a tiny sample of baby names from one metropolitan hospital in the span of about 8 months. Imagine what else is going on in the world!!!
2. If I ever get a call whilst eating out, I only answer it if it is business, and I only answer by leaving the table and standing outside the restaurant.
July 26th, 2008 at 1:57 am
The names simply take my breath away.
The cell phone thing? The vote should have included “No I don’t take a cellphone into a dining establishment”…not everyone has one and not everyone NEEDS one.
Our kids can always get in touch with us when we go out -we don’t need a cell phone for this to happen. They can simply phone the establishment we are at [and seriously, how many emergencies do the kids actually have while we are gone? How many did any of YOU have growing up?]. Isn’t this what OUR parents did when we were young?
No one needs a cell phone AT ALL TIMES - not even a brain surgeon. They get to eat too? Right?
Cell phones are bullshit and don’t give me “Business” blah, blah, blah….you don’t need to be conducting business while you are checking out of the grocery or WallyWorld…NOTHING is that important. No one is going to die if you order, eat, pay/tip and leave before you get back to “BUSINESS”. Vibrate is a gift. So is leaving it in the car.
Give me a break.
July 31st, 2008 at 6:48 am
When I see someone on a cellphone (I work at subway) I just give them a really nice “Oh, don’t worry, I’ll wait till you’re done on the phone!” And then either go on to the next customer or do something else.. It works great, I don’t have to deal with jerks on cellphones and it SEEMS like I’m being nice about it.