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Not on a regular basis, but depending on what I'm wearing, I've been known to tuck it there after boarding a flight, so it will be accessible to make a quick call to my ride during the taxi in to the airport.

If you need someone to come along with you to answer your phone, please don't hesitate to ask me.

you are a prince among men Marty

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Originally Posted by missydarlin

you are a prince among men Marty

Charming, am I not? :) cellphone :)

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Originally Posted by UpgradeMe

Planned Parenthood thanks you.

hahahaha

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Originally Posted by missydarlin

my cell phone..which I had forgotten was tucked into my cleavage, starts to vibrate and ring the theme to Indiana Jones.

That Harrison Ford.... lol

This is just too funny that it begged to be bumped. Thanks to CarltheWebmaster for providing the link.

dh

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Originally Posted by leeinct

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.

I've got nothing as risque as phones tucked in cleavage or portable contreptive devices or even flushing toilets, but I thought one incident I had was pretty funny, at least in retrospect. I was traveling in Japan for two weeks with my family and had arranged to stay at a Buddhist monastery for a couple of nights on top of what is something of a holy mountain. The monks were somewhat snarky as we'd arrived later than we said we would. One of my clients, a Fortune 500 company, arranged a conference call that would include me. I would have to start the call at 4 AM in Japanthe next morning but the call included the chairman, the general counsel, other execs and senior partners in a major law firm and me so of course I agree to get on the call. I did tell them at the time that I would be staying at a Buddhist monastery. So, I found an isolated room with a payphone in case my cellphone doesn't work. At 4 AM, I join the call. There are photographs of WWII kamikaze fighter planes plastered all over the walls and models of the planes. It is absolutely freezing as there is no central heating -- monks are tough. I'm wearing pretty much all the clothes I've brought. A little before 5 AM, heavy incense starts pouring into the room. At 5 AM, someone bangs a huge gong maybe 10 or 20 times. It is so loud that the call was stopped dead in its tracks -- I swear the gong must have been two feet behind me -- and I almost jumped across the room. It happened again at 5:15 or something like it. The chairman commented that I was working very hard to make my implausible story about staying in a Buddhist monastery credible. It was absolutely hilarious in a surreal kind of way.

The monks complained to my wife that I didn't join them in prayer. We're not Buddhists and don't speak Japanese, but when in a monastery, do as the monks do, I guess. The gongs were apparently the call to prayer.

I don't know if this qualifies.

As a family doc, I have my visits with patients interrupted by their cell phone ringing all the time. Usually it happens during some rather mundane part of the exam but every now and again the darned things go off during some of the more sensitive portions of the physical exam. Fortunately my patients are usally more embarrassed than I am and we end up having a laugh over it. Best/worst? I'll leave the details to your imagination but suffice to say that a compromising position, a finger full of lube and "Baby Got Back" blaring in the background is not exactly the situation I trained for!

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Originally Posted by JS

Never happened to me, but on a related note...

On a UA flight into LAX, a man sitting behind me started talking on his cell phone a few minutes before landing (his phone rang).

He talked for about 10 seconds, and then a flight attendant approached him and said, "Were you using a cell phone?" He answered in the affirmative, and the flight attendant said that he was going to report him to the captain.

OK, at this point, I figure, fair enough -- you aren't supposed to use a cell phone in the air, although reporting it to the captain isn't really necessary IMHO.

However, this flight attendant must have thought, "Now's my chance", and after tellling the passenger that he was going to report him to the captain, he followed by saying, "What are you trying to do, crash the plane?"

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!

This is just one example of what I have observed over the last couple of years. Now you know why I post some harsh sayings about flight attendants on this board, especially regarding UA? While not all flight attendants are power-hungry jerks, there are way too many of them, and they need some serious re-training, or better yet, a pink slip.

How can it be slander if the FA only asked a question?

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Originally Posted by PrePress420

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 ?...

Or a smoker who knows their way with a condom and a friendly smoke detector?

Right when we went wheels up, my cell phone (of course) rings in my pocket. I ignored it, and let everyone listen to the wonderful salsa music for a minute.

Another was when we were on final approach to ORD and some lady's cell phone rings and she answers it and starts talking for about 3 minutes, boy did she have a nice talk with the captain after the flight....