| Cell Phones On a Date,Do You Really Need It?
Posted: 2/19/2007 7:09:51 AM | | Ummmm....we are living in the year 2007 right? I have 3 small children and the entire reason that I pay for a cell phone is so that whoever has them can get in touch with me in case of an emergency. Besides that, if you are meeting someone from the internet, you do not know that person. You do not know what they will do. My phone has GPS tracking on it, so if I don't come home, if I have the phone with me, my family can track me. | |
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| Cell Phones On a Date,Do You Really Need It?
Posted: 2/19/2007 8:45:11 AM | First time meetings don't really require a cell phone if you keep it to a half hour or less...all you have to do is wait them out. But there's no need to leave a cell at home, I mean how immature are you that you can't resist using it on a meeting? Just turn it down or off and don't use it until you leave. It's totally rude to use it while you're sitting with someone else.
My cell is always with me in the car in case someone is running late or in case of something happening while I'm driving. If I have it it's on vibrate during a meeting, dinner, or whatever I'm doing. Someone can leave a voicemail, and I can call them back when I'm free. It's a work cell, but I don't have to answer it if I don't want to/don't hear it.
Even my friends and I turn phone ringers off when we meet for dinner or movies or whatever. If you have plans, you have plans - calls can wait. I think once a friend and I were waiting for a third friend to show and she was real late, so we turned our phones on in case she called and used our cells to try to track her down, but that's about it. | |
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| Cell Phones On a Date,Do You Really Need It?
Posted: 2/19/2007 9:20:38 AM | | Unless you have young children that may need you in an emergency or something that is extremely important going on in your life that you have to deal with a cell phone should either be turned off or on vibrate. I find it extremely rude when I am on a date and someone's cell phone goes off and they talk on the phone. To me it would show lack of interest. | |
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| Cell Phones On a Date,Do You Really Need It?
Posted: 2/19/2007 10:08:42 AM | | 1st time together in public.....TURN THE PHONE OFF.....at least excuse yourself to go outdoors....bathroom, etc. If there are security issues or questions...why are you even there? If you are expecting an important...critical call, let your date know before hand...that is it forthcoming...then you will trun the phone off. | |
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| Cell Phones On a Date,Do You Really Need It?
Posted: 2/19/2007 7:26:21 PM | | A poster wrote:"My own solution would be to only accept dates with men that understand that children come first, and hopefully make their own a priority, also. " I feel that you are saying that I don't put my kids first If I choose NOT to use a cell. I apologize,but putting my kids first might mean not dating someone at all,right? I am not condemning the use of cell phones and never have in my posts,but using them for a 30min "greet and meet" is downright rude and inconsiderate. I have realized that since I got rid of my cell how unimportant all those useless calls are in my life. I admit there are times of emergencies that is good for cells,but using them for a first time date is unexcusable. I would never date another woman again that brings her cell on the first date and lays in on the table...ringer off or not...most have lights that flash even if the ringers are off. The lady I had a date with tried to call and apologize the next day,but it was too late,she failed her "first impression". | |
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| Cell Phones On a Date,Do You Really Need It?
Posted: 2/20/2007 12:42:34 AM | its extremely annoying to be out on a date and for someones phone to go off every 15 minutes . why not just turn it off for the length of time your on the date . its very rude and disprespectful .if you have kids i suppose thats a different matter but most of the calls are from friends wanting to chat . to pick it up at all is rude but to sit and talk for 10 minutes is unforgivable . very few people are so important that they cant do without having their cellphones off for a few hours. | |
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daisie
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Joined: 9/22/2004
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| Cell Phones On a Date,Do You Really Need It?
Posted: 2/20/2007 7:22:18 AM | Cell phones irritate the shit out of me. Of course the horseless carriage is annoying to me also....
seriously I despise those effin phones!!! But it a first date explains to me in ADVANCE that he will have his phone and take calls for whatever reason then that's cool. At least I have to option to meet him and put up with that or I have the option to cancel.
I can understand there are SOME (a FEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW) good reasons to need to ahve a phone with you 24/7. But all I have to say is he bettter not answer many calls and he better get the hell off the phone in about 15 seconds maximum!! Any long chats going on and I will simply walk out....'nuff said. | |
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| Cell Phones On a Date,Do You Really Need It?
Posted: 2/20/2007 7:58:45 AM | | IF a woman brought a cell phone on the date with me . I would think she was not into the date . cell phones are NOT the anwser to everything . A ringing cell phone can get you kicked out of a resterraunt . and also pulled over and given a $200 ticket for talking on a cell phone while driving . bring your cell phone . I will require you to have sex with then . if you don't have a cell phone with you . then, the date woulds be fine . | |
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| Cell Phones On a Date,Do You Really Need It?
Posted: 2/20/2007 8:08:03 AM | I use my cellphone for work i need it all the time. But on dates I usually keep it silent.
But im also an electronics junkie so I love showing girls my cool cellphone functions and I like showing them they can do on their cellphone that they had not thought possible. | |
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| Cell Phones On a Date,Do You Really Need It?
Posted: 2/20/2007 7:21:44 PM | I think a lot of people are dating their cell phones .
I see a lot of people walking alone, talking into their cells and being totally self-absorbed.
A new age addiction, cell phones...can't do without...can't leave it at home or turn it off.
I can see how certain situations and being involved in some sort of essential service, warrants carrying a phone.
Going on a date with a cell phone and it's human attachment, is so not cool...2 is company, 3 is a crowd!
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| Cell Phones On a Date,Do You Really Need It?
Posted: 2/21/2007 8:20:24 AM | are you all for real???!!!!
internet dating carries risks - the people we decide to meet may well not be exactly as they say...
I will take my mobile to a date, i will use it if said date turns out not as I expected (ie not who he said he was .. i wouldn't use it just as a "get out clause") AND i will arrange to text a friend at specified times to let them know I am ok...
call me paranoid but in this world, where kids get abducted walking home from school at 3 30pm ..... you can't be too safe
having said that.. non-emergency calls that take ages to say "call me later" or constant texts (not the pre-arranged "i'm ok" to a friend) are blooming annoying and would annoy any sane person! | |
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| Cell Phones On a Date,Do You Really Need It?
Posted: 2/21/2007 8:50:22 AM | Ah that little irritating interruption to personal contact......yes, I hate it too, especially on the road where people lose their brains.
There was one little woman I spoke with at a coffee shop. As we talked, it would ring and she would reach right down in her bra and pull it out..., "hello? Not now, I'll call you back." At least she didn't let it interfere with our conversation, but it did look unusual when she would pull it out out of her bra.
I think it is terribly RUDE to let a stupid cellphone interefere with personal contact on a date. It's rude in other places too, but that's another issue. Some folks cannot live without their little "kirk to enterprise" every two minutes (or sooner).
I will admit there have been a few potential dates that I spoke with that were very respectful with their phones. In my perspective, those that will not be respectful with their phones on a date have their priorities out of order and will most likely will put you below the priority of their phone addiction. So, I tend to sympathize with EastSide's position on this. | |
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| Cell Phones On a Date,Do You Really Need It?
Posted: 2/21/2007 11:51:37 AM | I put my phone on vibrate. I have voicemail AND caller ID, so I can always see exactly who called. I try not to answer my phone. If its going off uncontrollably, then I will casually excuse myself to make sure there wasnt an emergency.
The most hilarious thing happened when I had a loaner phone for a few days. The thing was a beast. I had the phone set to vibrate and it was in my purse. My purse was leaning against my chair and I was leaning on the table. He was leaning on the table too.
My phone vibrated and HE COULD FEEL IT. That was a good laugh. | |
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mac79
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Joined: 11/11/2006
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| Cell Phones On a Date,Do You Really Need It?
Posted: 2/21/2007 3:13:31 PM | yup. i've got kids who are old enough to stay home alone, but who are young enough that they would need to call me in case of emergency. i don't usually go out unless they are with their dad...but he is totally irresponsible, so they may still need to call me.
i wouldn't ever answer any other call during a date. | |
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guess
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Joined: 1/23/2007
Msg: 69 | |
| Cell Phones On a Date,Do You Really Need It?
Posted: 2/21/2007 4:49:48 PM | | I think that it is very rude to have your cellphone on at a date and the least you can do is to have it without sound and check it when the date is over and done with | |
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| Cell Phones On a Date,Do You Really Need It?
Posted: 2/21/2007 5:21:27 PM | There is a HUGE difference in taking your phone with you..... and in having it on or taking calls.
I always have my phone with me... I also think it's important if you're meeting you have it so you can make sure you end up at the same place!
With that said I have mine on vibrate or I turn it off. I never look at my phone unless I've explained ahead of time that I had some unfinished business with a client and that is the ONLY call I will take and I'd step outside.
I would NEVER phone someone or text someone on a date! That is sooo rude! I wouldn't answer to tell people I'll call them back either!
I went on a date with a guy that had his phone on his belt and every time it would buz he would pull it off and look at it... It was sooo annoying to me! I came back from the bathroom and he was texting... It made me realize one day he was texting me and he said he was at lunch with friends! HMMMM maybe that's what he was telling whomever! ARGH Rude rude rude!
I went out with another guy 1st date was awesome and (no cell phone usage) 2nd date he walked in with his cell phone and he was texting.... I finally got annoyed enough to ask who he was texting... (his daughters best friend... hmmm that was odd enough!) Then he mentioned his brother had called from Vegas but hadn't left a message. I asked if he did that often... he said No picked up the phone and called his brother! OK... I didn't need a 3rd date! | |
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| Cell Phones On a Date,Do You Really Need It?
Posted: 2/21/2007 6:00:19 PM |
unfinished business with a client
The only time that wouldn't work is if later in the conversation you found out she's something like a cashier at a dry cleaning store or something....
"Client's" calling to say "no starch"?
Usually it's the bailout call. The height or rude.
"My god!!! The space shuttle crashed on MY HOUSE and my KIDS got hurt?"
Got to get ALL the possible disasters in there to make it believable. | |
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| Cell Phones On a Date,Do You Really Need It?
Posted: 2/21/2007 6:09:49 PM | Courtesy is paramount, and thus I explain beforehand if I'm "on call" (for real emergencies).
... very few people are so important that they cant do without having their cellphones off for a few hours ... | |
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| Cell Phones On a Date,Do You Really Need It?
Posted: 2/21/2007 6:16:02 PM | I take mine........ do I answer it.........Only if its my kid.......
I agree its rude to do the text and talking.
Maybe people should have an agreement b4 the date.......... Lets leave the cells alone unless its an emergency. Tho personally I have never had it happen to me, I'd have said something or just left.
As for security........You'd be better of with Smith and Wesson and a concealed to carry permit........lol
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