Ubiquitous cell phone rudeness

 While crossing the street this morning at a busy

    intersection in East Providence, I feared being hit by

    a woman driver yaking on the cell phone with the kids in

    the car. How self-important these rude people with cell

    phones seem to bumkin pedestrian bus riders like me !

            The cell phone makes you appear a general in your

    own  petty universe.

             Yesterday afternoon , I witnessed a brainless punk

     yelling at his girl friend  over a cell phone on a crowded

    bus. As I exited the bus , I exclaimed to the bus driver :

    " Cell phones should also be prohibited on the bus. "

             In the background the voice of middle class

    courtesy : " You're a LIAR ... you were suppose to meet

    me.... " .

            "  A lot of punks in Riverside ",  my neighbor

    said later.

                I remembered I had to return a call. I

    went to a pay phone near  a store. I deposited a

    quarter. No dial tone . THIS public pay phone was broken

    too. Somebody else would have to work  Joe's night

    shift. I was out of quarters for now.

              A guy who rides the bus , prefers to walk, and

    has no cell phone - and is always losing quarters in

    public pay phones - what a SMUCK !