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Why are the people using their cellphones allowed to ruin the ride for the rest of us? Even the bus drivers are yelling into the damn things while careening down the street with a bus full of passengers! People in San Francisco have no sense of social etiquette or basic manners for the most part. (Try this, say "excuse me" to 10 people in a crowded place. See how many of them just plain ignore you, and continue doing whatever they were doing. Or, they’ll look at you like you’re speaking in some tongue from another world) The self-centered nature of public cellphone users is really apparent when you have someone sitting two inches away from your ear yelling into a phone that’s on speaker! Then you have to listen to both sides of the conversation. What joy. At times, there will be 3 or 4 or more people all jabbering away on their cellphones at the same time from different parts of the bus! All of the rest of us can do is sit there, and be forced to listen to their trivial conversations about people we don’t know nor care anything about. We all pay the same amount to ride, why does their desire to ask what they’ll be having for dinner in 4 minutes when they "get there" or whatever, more important than my desire to ride in peace? You’re not supposed to have radios on Muni (but, they’re there on blast anyway), why do the powers that be think cellphones are any less annoying than radios? They’re not. I propose we do as other major cities have done - no cellphones on public transit. There used to be signs on Muni that said not to disturb other passengers. Oh, the attitude if you ask someone to end a conversation or speak loudly elsewhere for that very reason. Some people will get downright hostile if you do. Cellphones in such close quarters are a bad idea for many reasons. I’ve mentioned but a few. A really big one is that cellphones can and have been used to detonate bombs! I would think that fact alone would be enough for them to be banned from all busses and trains! Of course, people will say they need them for "emergencies". I got news for you all. If you’re on MUNI and you have a genuine emergency somewhere other than on that particular bus at that particular moment…you’re screwed anyway!
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