Feb 06 2009
How to deal with an obnoxiously loud cell-phone user
There is someone on my floor that is obnoxiously loud on his cellphone. I am not exaggerating when I say that I feel like a part of his conversations even though he’s ten feet down the hallway and my door is closed. After four or five of these conversations, I politely asked him to move down another 10-15 feet and let me sleep. He said that he couldn’t because he had gotten complaints from the other side of the hall, too, and he didn’t want to go into the stairwell because the echoes were too bad. (Boohoohoo).
After another week of suffering through plodding descriptions of his bizarre sexual dilemmas and the many internships he’s considering for this summer, it was time for action. I convinced the residents of the floor to play obnoxiously loud music whenever he talks too loud. I’ve only had to play the 1986 Transformers theme twice. Problem solved.
I can imagine that that would put somebody off.
Personally, I would probably play Metallica or Disturbed at full blast. Well, depending on his tastes, I guess.
It’s a pity that all the people who make really loud calls are never in a place where I have music handy. DAMMIT!
It’s the worst in movie theatres. Unless you have a life-or-death job (doctors, fire-fighters, etc) you should not have your phone on in the theatre. If you take a call for any reason other than an emergency, everyone else in the theatre is morally permitted to pelt you with M & Ms.
If I had a neighbour like that, I’d play Linkin Park at full blast. It’d be fun to see how they reacted when it got up to the 18 second scream in “Given Up”.
I wouldn’t be nearly that courteous, but that’s an entirely different tangent.
Whovian, I’ve noticed that you haven’t posted any of your story in a bit, hit a snag? I’ve actually been looking forward to seeing the Guardian in action, so far I’ve only seen Isaac.
I’m doing a bit of editing at the moment to cut out unnecessary crap. I’ve noticed that the word “I” appears a lot, so I’m restructuring sentences.
An alternative to “I noticed a bright light in the sky”, would be “there was a bright light in the sky”, so that annoying little “I” gets cut.
I’m also changing one of the major events, but I’ll post a bit on my forum today if I have time.
That’s definitely something in my stories that I have noticed–too many ‘I”s and definitely too many ‘something”s.
I’d probably be too scared to death (of offending them/how they would react) to say anything. Eventually, though, I’m sure I’d get the courage to at least be like … “Excuse me, do you think you could go somewhere else and take that call?”
Or, if I was having a bad day, “Look … I really don’t need to hear you cry about breaking up with your 8th boyfriend this month. If you’ve had eight boyfriends in the past month, something is wrong, and though it may be ‘their fault’ it’s probably you too.”
Dang … I feel like covering my mouth now. That ‘sounded’ kinda mean. :/
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I still have nightmares of Stan Bush singing as Optimus Prime gets capped in the face. (I don’t think he was actually singing when OP died).
I can’t wait for the new Transformers movie. ^_^
It could be pretty good, although I’m not a Michael Bey, fan. His action sequences are too frenetic for me. I think the Children of Men and the first Matrix movie did a much better job of pacing the action.
Truth … it’s rather hard for me to watch movies where the camera goes all over the place (shaking, spinning everywhere, 360 whatchamacallits). Not that I just like the camera steady the whole time and the action the same. It’s just nice to be able to watch the whole thing without feeling you’re going to hurl ’cause they can’t keep the camera steady. And it’s nice when the action isn’t so chaotic that you have no idea what’s going on.
That’s one of the things I hated about Cloverfield. I appreciated the creativity in the idea of the video camera, and sometimes the crazy-cam was fun, but after a while I just wanted to know what was happening.
I didn’t understand any of the Matrix movies. I was always thinking “Who’s he? What’s he doing? Why is he fighting him?” I still have no idea what was going on. I got up to “you’re all hooked up to machines” and then I lost track.
I think that Clover looked a lot like Sin from Final Fantasy X.
Clover:
Sin:
See the similarities?
See, the trick is to filter out all the sci-fi mumbo-jumbo and focus on the ridiculous KFC (kung fu carnage).
That’s what I did. After I while I gave up and just watched them kick the crap out of each other.