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Old Nov 19, 2004 | 8:36 am
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Originally Posted by JS
If I were the passenger, I would have sued that flight attendant for slander. Talking on a cell phone is not going to crash the plane!
That's not slander, not even close.
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Old Nov 19, 2004 | 4:58 pm
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OMG! I haven't laughed so hard in ages...too funny!

Originally Posted by missydarlin
mine was just a couple days ago actually..not in flight, but close.

I was clearing security at O'Hare on Sunday, for the second time in the span of a few hours. The TSA lady asked me to remove my shoes and and I assured her that I'd just been through in the exact same shoes just a couple of hours before and i was willing to take my chances.

I walked through and wouldnt you know..i set off the alarm. As I'm wondering to myself why i'm setting it off now and didnt two hours earlier.. my cell phone..which I had forgotten was tucked into my cleavage, starts to vibrate and ring the theme to Indiana Jones.
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Old Nov 19, 2004 | 7:38 pm
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We were on the apron, LH, just about to take off from CDG -> MUC and some businessman's phone went off... he just ignored it and let it ring and ring until eventually the pilot yelled "I've just been informed that someone's phone is ringing, turn it off now!".

One of the FAs got up and started pulling bags out of an overhead locker where the sound was coming from and throwing them on the floor, glad that wasn't my stuff! Eventually, the culpruit got up and turned off his phone, very embarassed.

I find people using phones on planes to be very annoying, especially those that turn them on prior to or when landing. Is it really such a hardship to wait like 10 minutes more? Sure the jury's out on whether they cause any damage, but I think it's quite selfish to do so in defiance of instructions.
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Old Nov 19, 2004 | 7:50 pm
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Originally Posted by missydarlin
I walked through and wouldnt you know..i set off the alarm. As I'm wondering to myself why i'm setting it off now and didnt two hours earlier.. my cell phone..which I had forgotten was tucked into my cleavage, starts to vibrate and ring the theme to Indiana Jones.
Missy, my husband - who knows you - is howling with laughter visualizing this - and making insulting remarks about my inability to ever have this happen to me.
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Old Nov 20, 2004 | 1:50 am
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did you tell him to be nice to you or he might end up finding his own cell phone tucked up where the sun don't shine?
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Old Nov 20, 2004 | 10:05 am
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Very few people have my mobile# but occasionally I'll give it to a customer.....anyway....flight just landed, my beloved wife knows my flight schedule so I answered with my standard beloved greeting "Hey Babe".
Unfortunately it was a customer, a female customer....fortunately she took it with good humor (I think)
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Old Nov 20, 2004 | 2:02 pm
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Originally Posted by CVO 1K 2 Million
Very few people have my mobile# but occasionally I'll give it to a customer.....anyway....flight just landed, my beloved wife knows my flight schedule so I answered with my standard beloved greeting "Hey Babe".
Unfortunately it was a customer, a female customer....fortunately she took it with good humor (I think)

Ha ha! I suppose you'll be getting call display now?
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Old Nov 21, 2004 | 7:54 am
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Originally Posted by missydarlin
mine was just a couple days ago actually..not in flight, but close.

I was clearing security at O'Hare on Sunday, for the second time in the span of a few hours. The TSA lady asked me to remove my shoes and and I assured her that I'd just been through in the exact same shoes just a couple of hours before and i was willing to take my chances.

I walked through and wouldnt you know..i set off the alarm. As I'm wondering to myself why i'm setting it off now and didnt two hours earlier.. my cell phone..which I had forgotten was tucked into my cleavage, starts to vibrate and ring the theme to Indiana Jones.

So MissyD, now we know that Indy's search for the Holy Grail was successful. From now on, when I hear the theme song, I'll think of you and smile.
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Old Nov 23, 2004 | 11:19 am
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A few months ago I was in a bathroom stall in Columbus Ohio getting changed out of my suit into a pair of khakis. I have my cell phone on full blast. As I am in the stall, I put my suitcase on top of the shelf in back of the toilet (not realizing that the sensor to auto flush was right there. As I was getting changed, my cell rings and it was my biggest customer on the other end. He is praising our products, etc and just as he is about to hang up, the damn toilet flushes. not once, not twice, but three-four times!!!. I explain to him what I was doing and I have yet to here the end of it since.
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Old Nov 23, 2004 | 12:18 pm
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Originally Posted by leeinct
As I was getting changed, my cell rings and it was my biggest customer on the other end. He is praising our products, etc and just as he is about to hang up, the damn toilet flushes. not once, not twice, but three-four times!!!. I explain to him what I was doing and I have yet to here the end of it since.
I can just see how red you were turning when the flushes just wouldn't stop. What's up with the customer? Did she not understand where you were and that she called you? It wasn't like you make all of your high priority phone calls from sitting over a hole.
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Old Nov 23, 2004 | 12:21 pm
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Originally Posted by missydarlin
I walked through and wouldnt you know..i set off the alarm. As I'm wondering to myself why i'm setting it off now and didnt two hours earlier.. my cell phone..which I had forgotten was tucked into my cleavage, starts to vibrate and ring the theme to Indiana Jones.
Missy, get your phone out of there!! This could vindicate TSA reps on their desire to grope us to see if anyone of us has a weapon which plays the theme to Rocky.
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Old Nov 23, 2004 | 12:32 pm
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My customers all feel free to give me a hard time. The story has been told at conventions to other customers of mine. Our business is really an ol' boys network and is fairly close knit. Every one bust each others chops now and then.
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Old Nov 24, 2004 | 2:40 pm
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Originally Posted by missydarlin
I walked through and wouldnt you know..i set off the alarm. As I'm wondering to myself why i'm setting it off now and didnt two hours earlier.. my cell phone..which I had forgotten was tucked into my cleavage, starts to vibrate and ring the theme to Indiana Jones.
I guess this gives new meaning to TravelBuzz
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Old Nov 24, 2004 | 2:50 pm
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Originally Posted by NNH
And I've never had an embarassing contraception issue in the air.
Well, on the SFO-AMS KLM flight I took last week, there was a condom stuck to the inside of the toilet basin in WBC. Don't know if it was a bored prankster or used... mile high club ?...nevermind the next question
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Old Nov 27, 2004 | 2:33 pm
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Originally Posted by missydarlin
...which I had forgotten was tucked into my cleavage, starts to vibrate and ring the theme to Indiana Jones.
Do you always carry it there? I have a belt clip for mine...
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