Cell Phones in Airports
I am sitting here in a major airport waiting for my flight. I cam early so I could ensure my safe passage through the questionable searches and siezures of TSA and now I sit at my gate. I travel frequently for my work and have the opportunity to people watch a lot. I’ve noticed an interesting behavior in people with cell phones. They call people they don’t often speak with in regular life. It is a behavior that fascinates me.
I’ve just finished listening to 3 10-minute conversations from the same person to 3 different folks and each one seemed to contain the same information and a tone that indicated that the call was both unexpected and irregular. Oddly, the person is traveling with someone to talk to but chose to ignore the other person. Why do people insist on calling everyone they know when they are at airports? I come up with a list of reasons:
- They’re legitimately arranging important business or personal matters.
- They’re showing off to their friends that they are traveling.
- You never knows what will happen so reach out to people before it does happen.
- They’re bored senseless and did not bring enough to keep them busy
- They want me to know they have friends
- They’re choose to pollute the air space with personal conversations (think of this like when people could smoke in airports but now it is noise pollution).
I admit that I’m guilty of the same behavior, calling people I don’t often to talk with, catching up on gaps n time, working out business things with my clients or bosses, arranging travel, or simply polluting. I work hard not to do this (and I have 2 mobile phones). I like to sit quietly, listen to music, and talk to you via my blog. Well, I’ve got to get going here, phone is aching to be dialed.
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