cell phone Archive

Afternoon Delights

Jason and I had to both get our MUNI fast passes yesterday since we hadn’t had a chance to get them yet, so he popped over and we hung out here at home for a while before heading up to Powell to purchase our passes.  From there, he wanted to get some of the spicy catfish that Coriander Thai sells in the Westfield food court, so we strolled across the street and had lunch.  I love the spice eggplant and tofu, and had that with the mixed veggies and steamed rice.  Jason had the catfish and some of their basil chicken.  I really like that place, and considering that it’s food court food, it’s pretty darned good.

From there, we headed back up and out onto the street, into the Rite-Aid to get some water, and was about to go into the soon-to-be-closed Virgin Megastore to look at the picked-over leavings when he got a text message from Drunky, which prompted this whole round of drama on the phone.  While he was talking on the phone, I headed upstairs to my office to get a spare set of keys from the building management (I left my keys in Frank’s car on Tuesday morning when he dropped me off at the Las Vegas airport – he has since mailed them back to me).  I have a spare set of office keys in my own office, so after grabbing them, I popped the other keys back up to the 10th floor and returned them.

Jason was still on the phone, so I wandered in to the Virgin, and looked around.  There’s not much left in there, and what is left is pretty much the dregs of the store, although there are these two really nice male and female mannequins for sale.

Did I ever tell you about how I used to work at this leather/adult toy store in Virginia right around the time I was getting out of the Navy?  Well, that’s where I learned some of my leathercraft and woodworking.  And also where I learned about married men loving to be pegged.  Anyway, the local Upton’s department store was closing its doors and the owner of the shop went over and purchased some mannequins.  There was one in particular that wasn’t useable because it was too damaged, but she was in a seated on the floor with one leg propped up and the other “indian style,” and I thought she would be perfect for the hatchback of my ‘91 honda civic.  I had recently gotten the license plate I SKULL for the car, and that attracted a lot of attention from the “straight” men.

With the mannequin dressed and placed in the back of the car, people used to roll down their windows at red lights and ask me if I knew there was a woman in the back of the car.  I would tell them, yes, she’s back there being punished.  That confused them, of course, and they would drive off, and I would laugh.

Anyway, back to the present.  I had to grab my portable table and head to my new client appointment (yes, I’m doing an outcall for this one client), and Jason had to go home and deal with Drunky, so we kissed and hugged and said our farewells.

The session went really well, and I left my portable table there at the client’s house to be used again in two weeks.

When Is It OK To Cell?

Yesterday I received a bodywork session from a fellow, and afterward rode BART to San Leandro to have a dinner date with a guy, our second date.  We went for sushi and watched the last few minutes of the Super Bowl during the final portion of our meal.

After dinner, which included an appetizer of fresh wasabi on cucumber slices – amazing, by the way.  If you’ve never had fresh wasabi, it’s not to be missed if the chef offers it to you.  But was I was saying, after dinner, we were being a little physically intimate and my phone rang.  I am somewhat embarrassed to say that I answered it, as it was from a client, and with the current business climate, a missed call is missed income.  I talked just long enough to tell him that I’d call him back in a few minutes.

But that got me thinking about cell phone etiquette, and I came across this article on MSNBC:

In Australia, 48 percent said they use their phones “while using the loo,” the company said, and in Taiwan and China, the numbers were even higher, 68 and 66 percent, respectively.

Overall, 6 percent of all respondents said they have taken a call on their phones during a funeral, 10 percent have done so “inside a place of worship” and 16 percent admit to answering their cells while engaging in physical relations. The physics of the latter is almost as unimaginable as the behavior itself.

via Cell phones permeate personal moments – Wireless- msnbc.com.

So, with mobile communication devices becoming almost an extension of our thoughts, and the boundaries of public and private blurring even further, what is appropriate cell phone behavior?

Question: what is your most embarrassing cell phone story?