Saturday, February 12, 2011

A World Full of Music

I am setting in a fairly nice, upscale casual type of restaurant waiting for my to go order when from the table in front of me comes a little beat box drum machine sound.

"boom chick a boom chick a boom"

I look up and see that it belongs to the cell phone of, shall we say, a lady of "a certain age".

She looks at her phone, decides not to answer it and puts it down. What she does not do is hit "ignore" or silence her phone in any way, instead, she lets the ring tone play out.

"boom chick a boom chick a boom"

It's a really long ring tone...

"boom chick a boom chick a boom"

A minute or so later, her phone rings again.

"boom chick a boom chick a boom"

She doesn't even look at this call.

"boom chick a boom chick a boom"

Did I mention it is a long ring tone?

"boom chick a boom chick a boom"

The phone rings a third time...

"boom chick a boom chick a boom"

but low and behold, this person gains access and she answers. No more ring tone.

Do the fancier touch screen phones NOT come with a silence or ignore button? You might want to check it out.