Cell Phone Etiquette.......Revisited

I know it is improper, impolite and maybe illegal to repeat a post from long ago, but sometimes a topic is so important to the well-being of humanity that it has to be revisited. I apologize to whose of you who are loyal enough to still be coming around since I wrote this post last December, but I hope you agree that this is too important to ignore and it seems that there are still some people I know who have ignored it.
(This repeat has nothing to do with the fact that my blog brain has been mush lately...well, almost nothing)

There's a lot of talk about cell phone etiquette, but I have an issue that I never hear discussed and I think it needs to be addressed. When you are talking to someone and one or both of you are on a cell phone it is not unusual to be talking, talking, talking and suddenly realize that no one is listening. The call has dropped.


Here's what usually happens with me when a call is dropped. I realize I'm talking to no one, so I immediately call back the person I was talking to. The call goes right to their voice mail because, of course, they are trying to call me back, getting my voice mail because I am trying to call them back. I think, oh, he/she is calling me back, so I wait a minute for the phone to ring. He/she thinks, oh, she is trying to call me back, and they wait a minute for the phone to ring. When the phone doesn't ring within a few moments, I think, oh, he/she is waiting for me to call back, so I call and he/she........well, you get the picture.


I'm suggesting an easy solution that will save us all a lot of time if only you will accept me as the Queen of Cell Phone Etiquette and follow this rule: The person who placed the original call is ALWAYS the one to call back. Simple. Easy. Problem solved.




I hope I don't end up going to blog jail for this repeat, but if I do I will consider it worth it in the spirit of public service.