Tell Us Your Bad Mobile Manners Contest Winner

For our Tell us your bad mobile manners contest we received some very amusing, as well as some very rude stories of people practicing bad mobile etiquette. And way too many of these incidents happened to people while on a date. If there is one lesson that can be learned here – it’s don’t check your email or pick up the phone on a date folks! It’s just rude, and it’s likely you’ll never make it to a second date either.

Congratulations to Dan T. of Hawthorne, New Jersey. He won a Dell Mini 12 courtesy of Intel. Check out his humorous tale of bad mobile manners below.

So it was the first day of my Honors Intro History class during the spring semester of my freshman year. Obviously I had been through a whole semester of college, so I figured I had seen just about everything…or so I thought.

The class was a seminar/discussion-based course so there were only 9 people in the room including the teacher. She introduced herself and started to discuss the syllabus when a cell phone started to ring. To truly understand the hilarity of this situation, however, you need to understand who the cell phone belonged to. Meet Alice. Alice was a freshman, like me, but that is about where the similarities ended. Alice made a habit of chasing down the campus shuttle to get to class, throwing books at it until it stopped. Alice kept her cell phone in a fanny pack (which never left her person) with a 6 flags logo on the top. Alice had
“Who Let the Dog’s Out” as her ring tone.

Now I’ll admit, my cell phone went off at least twice during the previous semester so I understood that it could happen. And when it did, normal people would silence it quickly, turn bright red, and make profuse, quiet, humble apologies to everyone in the room. Alice was not a normal person. Alice rifled through her 6 flags fanny pack, got her cell phone, gave a cute smile to it, and answered.

The mood of the room was a mixture of confusion and amazement. The teacher quietly walked over to Alice and told her “Alice, you can’t take a phone call when we are in the middle of class…let alone while you are still in the cla” The sentence was cut off there by Alice’s finger, held up in front of her face while her lips mouthed “One minute” to a flabbergasted Ph.D.

Needless to say, Alice didn’t last very long in that class let alone the university’s Honors program. But she did take one more class with me (a psychology class, sans phone unfortunately) which was just as hilarious as the first (even without the phone). To this day, that story still gets everyone from my class cracking up. And I am so happy I got to witness it first hand!