Mobile Phone Wanderers in Airport Lounges
May 30, 2008, 3:00 pm
#46
Join Date: Oct 2005
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Heh.. I don't talk on my phone, I use my blackberry pearl to text, but that is all you'll hear from my phone -- the clicking. 
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May 30, 2008, 5:04 pm
#47
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: DFW
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May 30, 2008, 9:27 pm
#48
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: BWI
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MPW: "Hey "other end of phone call" how are you?"
Me: "Just fine thank you, and you?"
MPW: Puzzled look - synapse fires - realizes talking to loud - slight embarrassment - walks away
Works most of the time...
May 31, 2008, 7:19 am
#50
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 144
You can almost always ward off a wanderer with a loud conversation about bowel impactions and various way to treat them, your latest bout with stomach flu, a decription of various balls of mucous you've horked up lately, or other appetizing topics. Even if this temporarily subjects other "innocents" around you to unpleasantness, they will be most grateful once the Wanderer clears out.
May 31, 2008, 7:41 am
#51
Join Date: Jun 2007
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While he wasn't using his cell phone to talk, I found his multi-tasking rather extreme if not unsanitary as well.
May 31, 2008, 9:07 am
#52
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: KIX, ITM, UKB, YVR
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When using my cell in public I cup my hand around the mike whenever possible - perhaps it's just a mental thing but I find that when doing so I speak more quietly and without worry about whether or not the person on the other end can hear me. Interestingly, I find this still attracts attention sometimes - not negative attention, but more the "gee, I wonder what she must be talking about if she has to be so quiet" kind.