Why, you're absoiutely right, Jenny. I must be mistaken.
Thank you for your demonstration of how civil discourse should be conducted. I'm glad that you didn't feel it necessary to resort to name-calling and abuse to prove your point.
I can well imagine how embarrassed your wife's 80-yr-old grandmother must have felt when you so politely pointed out the error of her ways, no doubt using the same tact you displayed so skillfully in our conversation today. But I'm sure you were as equally gracious about it.
After all, it is pretty rude of us self-important-assed people to expect those outmoded habits of decency and respect for others to hold you back, with so many lives hanging in the balance.
Even now, I find some small measure of comfort, knowing that you are right now interrupting a conversation so that you can read this message. I'm sure your friends and loved ones understand how much more important it is that you correct a stranger on the Internet than devote those few seconds to them. If not, well, I'm sure you'll straighten them out.
Thanks for the reply. Your audacity is amazing. You may find this hard to comprehend, but I don't own a cell phone. I guess I'm just too selfish. How do I survive?
What I find funny is you just don't get how rude you're being when you do that during a conversation, and it's not just my opinion - someone made a poster about it.
Would you do it while being interviewed for a job? I bet you wouldn't be so rude - but what if grandma fell and needs you immediately? Don't be so selfish.
Would you do it in the movie theatre? How ignorant of the theatre owners to ask you not to check your messages during the movie! Don't they know that your family members could be in the middle of a dire emergency, and need you to get to the hospital right away? or your friends need your bone marrow for that operation?
Sure, the call could be that important one. And sure, you could win the lottery tomorrow. Don't use those unlikely odds to justify the fact that you're addicted to an electronic device, and you can't let it go, even to the point of being inconsiderate during conversations.
Again, you are saying, "This cat picture is more important to me than you."
I own a tablet, so I know how alluring a device can be. Learn to accept your addiction, and not justify it with "Well, it could be important." Trust me - it's not.
A quick check on your phone tells the person you're talking to that you would rather be talking to someone else, doing something else, anything but be stuck in this boring conversation with them. How sad that you don't understand.
Alex, why did you bother censoring the text, when you can easily read the swears in the pictures of the postcards?
I like to think I didn't make any attacks, though.
Thank you for your demonstration of how civil discourse should be conducted. I'm glad that you didn't feel it necessary to resort to name-calling and abuse to prove your point.
I can well imagine how embarrassed your wife's 80-yr-old grandmother must have felt when you so politely pointed out the error of her ways, no doubt using the same tact you displayed so skillfully in our conversation today. But I'm sure you were as equally gracious about it.
After all, it is pretty rude of us self-important-assed people to expect those outmoded habits of decency and respect for others to hold you back, with so many lives hanging in the balance.
Even now, I find some small measure of comfort, knowing that you are right now interrupting a conversation so that you can read this message. I'm sure your friends and loved ones understand how much more important it is that you correct a stranger on the Internet than devote those few seconds to them. If not, well, I'm sure you'll straighten them out.
You may find this hard to comprehend, but I don't own a cell phone. I guess I'm just too selfish. How do I survive?
What I find funny is you just don't get how rude you're being when you do that during a conversation, and it's not just my opinion - someone made a poster about it.
Would you do it while being interviewed for a job? I bet you wouldn't be so rude - but what if grandma fell and needs you immediately? Don't be so selfish.
Would you do it in the movie theatre? How ignorant of the theatre owners to ask you not to check your messages during the movie! Don't they know that your family members could be in the middle of a dire emergency, and need you to get to the hospital right away? or your friends need your bone marrow for that operation?
Sure, the call could be that important one. And sure, you could win the lottery tomorrow. Don't use those unlikely odds to justify the fact that you're addicted to an electronic device, and you can't let it go, even to the point of being inconsiderate during conversations.
Again, you are saying, "This cat picture is more important to me than you."
I own a tablet, so I know how alluring a device can be. Learn to accept your addiction, and not justify it with "Well, it could be important." Trust me - it's not.
How sad that you don't understand.