Originally posted by RedHedd
It's because the people talking on the cell phones usually don't realize that they are talking louder than one would normally speak to another person right next to them. Overhearing a two sided conversasion is very different from having to listen to someone yell into a cell phone so we hear one side of their personal businses in very close proximity or in public is NOT fun. Harrumph!
That's my complaint with it.

Your sitting in a restaurant trying to have a normal conversation with those with you, only to have someone at the other table, shouting into there cell phone. I don't know maybe they somehow thing that can shout over their bad connection. But I concern it bad manners not to realize that there are others around you and that their shouting into a phone, might just disturb them. If you can talk on a cell phone normal, without shouting, fine. If not I believe that you should take it outside, out of respect for other.

My other thing with cell phones in public, is when your in line at a store and the person in front of you, talking away, not even aware that the cashier and people behind you are waiting, for you to get done talking.

That just happened to me the other night. A man talking away on his cell, while the cashier was waiting to tell him his total, trying to get his attention, nicely. He just keep on talking as we all waited for him. How hard is it to say to the person on the other end, "hold on a min." And really, I didn't need to know that his wife just got arrested. Some conversation, should stay behind walls.