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by sakura_k 4567 days ago
Close your eyes and picture the last time you saw a clueless chatterbox gabbing on a cell phone. What do you remember? The nails-on-chalkboard voice? The hideous oversharing? Think deeper. Think of the flapping hands and the upper body articulation. Think of how oblivious that chatterbox was to any social cues, subtle or overt, that the world at large might not wish to share quite so deeply in its private discourse. Now imagine you're trapped 17" away (average distance between passengers' centers of mass on an international flight) from that clueless gesticulating chatterbox for 8 hours. If you honestly think that's no problem I won't call you a hypocrite. For me, cell phone chats go right down with cigarettes and guns as things that are so awful that even trapped air passengers shouldn't have to endure them.
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Thing is, I can't picture the last time I saw a clueless chatterbox gabbing on a cell phone.

I dunno who these people are I'm supposed to be afraid of. The face of the enemy is not known to me.