Originally Posted by
threepoint
It may be permissible to use a cell phone, but not necessarily socially acceptable. By all means text, email or check messages, but folks, don't subject us to your oh-so-important elevated-volume calls until we have a chance to separate ourselves from you.
meh..somehow I end up within a couple of rows of the oh-so-important-elevated-volume-and-generally-misinformed-but-authoritative J pax talking to his/her seatmate for 4 hours..sometimes it would be a nice change of pace to here another voice..but I digress..
It's not so much the elevated volume that probably bothers you:
http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early...82126.abstract