What are some rude things people do with cell phones?

Too many to list and not enough time to list them all.

Your "friend" who cancelled at the last minute would likely have stood you up if you didn't have a cell phone, tell you something came up and he couldn't make it. That had nothing to do with having a phone or not.

Rude cell phone behavior: Meeting a group of friends for lunch and they spend all their time texting or talking on the phone. Taking/making calls in theaters or other gatherings. Talking very loudly in stores when your signal is weak, disturbing others. Having highly personal conversations in public places where others have no choice but hear every word. Having conversations on speakerphone in public.

*Texting, or making/receiving phone calls when in the company of someone else. Not only is it very anti-social, but you may as well say to whoever you're with, "this game I'm playing, or this other person I'm talking too is more interesting to me than you are!"

*Walking around in public completely oblivious, with your face glued to your mobile screen. Dangerous for pedestrians who are too busy texting to look where they're going and end up barging into people, or walking out in the middle of the road without looking.

*Equally, drivers who text or talk on the phone illegally. Pretty clear reason why: dangerous driving at best, and fatal accidents at worst.

* Hanging up or not responding to a text conversation without saying goodbye. It doesn't take 2 seconds to type out "Have to go, speak soon". How often would you be in a face-to-face conversation with someone, decide you're bored, so just turn around and walk off in the opposite direction while they're mid-sentence?!

If you didn't have a cell is no guarantee that he would have shown up. That would presume that the person would keep a commitment. Obviously he didn't. The right thing to do would have been to make plans for the future with the other person and keep the commitment already made with you.

I find the thing that irritates me most is when standing at a cash register in a store someone is talking on the phone and the cashier is waiting for them to pay, but they just continue to talk and make everyone wait.

I agree with David - my friend in big box mart pharmacy was in the middle of taking a womans prescription - there was a huge line up behind her - the cellphone rings and the woman answers it mid transaction - my friend, seeing the line up and feeling the impatience of the customers, keeps on going with the transaction - the cellphone yapper flips on her "how dare you interrupt my call !" my friends reply "sorry to interrupt you while you were interrupting me MAAM"

Another good one in big box mart - the kid is screaming and wailing, opening boxes and what is the parent ( usually Mom) doing? yapping on the phone ignoring their screamin demon - and if I tell the kid to stop opening the packages 'Mom' starts screeching like Christina Aguilera.

People who shout their conversations while on transit.

The very worst is talk and text while driving - the yappers should have their licences taken away for this.

I was at a stop light and looked over at the car next ot me where four people were all talking on their cell phones. No wonder our youth has such deep struggles communicating without electronics. Those four people were together, but not connected with one another but with four other individuals, electronically.

Once I was standing in line when a woman who was next in line answered her cell phone. It was someone dictating a grocery list to her as she tried to memorize the items, but she could not memorize them and turned around to me and asked me for a pen and paper. Now, mind you, it is now her turn to get cashed out at the register and she is holding up the line.

People have to realize that while they are on their phones, the rest of the world just does not have to yield to them.

The thing about cell phones is that the younger generation begins using them when they are teenagers, immature teenagers who have zero concept of social grace, never mind how to use a phone in public. Those of us who are older and have just gotten cell phones in the recent past have already grown and learned manners while in public. The young kids do not realize this technology is just recently widely used, so they never learned how to be courteous while on their phones. Not to say that it is only the young who are offensive cell phone users, I have found plenty of adults who think the world revolves around them when they are engaged in using their phones.

Hang up without saying goodbye!

Eat while on the phone!

Have a conversation with someone else while on the phone!

Talk on the phone while on the toilet!

God I'm rude.