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ProblemCh1ld

Has anyone ever angrily approached while you were shopping because they didn't like you using your cell phone?

It happened to me recently.  The woman aggressively approached me yelling, telling me to move to another aisle. Has that ever happened to anyone else?  If so, how did you react. It probably comes as no surprise, but I didn't react well and we exchanged some harsh words and I didn't comply with her demand. 

Posted - May 14, 2017
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  • 3191
    Nope. But I only use my cellphone to check UPC codes when shopping.
      May 14, 2017 1:28 AM MDT
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  • 2465
    What app do you use for that?  It'd be quite useful to have. This post was edited by ProblemCh1ld at May 15, 2017 12:53 AM MDT
      May 15, 2017 12:53 AM MDT
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  • 16795
    It hasn't happened to me, I prefer not to shop where psychos hang out. Unless you were being super loud or getting in her face, what was her problem?
      May 14, 2017 5:26 AM MDT
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  • 2465
    She was the one that got in my face as well as my personal space. I'm not quite sure what her problem was but I suspect she didn't like overhearing my conversation. Funny thing is, I would have been talking in the same tone if the person I was speaking to had been right beside me. 
      May 15, 2017 12:57 AM MDT
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  • It's only the "big mouths" that really bother me. I wouldn't be talking on the phone anyway in such a place. It is annoying .. 
      May 14, 2017 5:43 AM MDT
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  • 2465
    Talking on the phone is no different than if the person was right beside you. I don't suspect people are silent around you, so you must get annoyed quite often. If people aren't overly loud, I hardly see the problem. 
      May 15, 2017 1:02 AM MDT
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  • 19937
    I rarely use my cell phone in public.  I find that some people who do forget that there are others around them.  I've had women block the aisle in the supermarket while they were chatting on their phone. 
      May 14, 2017 6:08 AM MDT
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  • 2465
    I think one needs to be conscious of others around them. I've been in chats with friends or other shoppers and sometimes get so involved in the conversation I don't always see other people approaching. And when others are in conversation and I have to interupt them, I'm certainly not rude about it
      May 15, 2017 1:07 AM MDT
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  • 19937
    By your own admission, you aren't always cognizant of others, so it stands to reason others aren't either. Perhaps you were not the only person on a cell phone not paying attention that she encountered that day.  You may have been the fourth or fifth and by that time, she was really irritated.  It has happened to me and after a while, you just lose it. 
      May 15, 2017 8:38 AM MDT
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  • 5354
    It has not happened to me, but then I dont use my cellphone much.
    I have however noticed people animatedly talking to someone who was not visible anywhwre, and made the (wrong) assumption that they were stark raving mad. It is not pleasant to be wrong like that. and I guess that could turn into such anger at the attacking woman showed.
      May 14, 2017 6:34 AM MDT
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  • 6477
    As long as you weren't standing in the way blocking or holding up the queue and you weren't being loud.. then no one has the right to tell you what to do
      May 14, 2017 1:29 PM MDT
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  • 2465
    I wasn't any of those things. Some people just have a thing about people on cell phones I guess. 
      May 15, 2017 1:09 AM MDT
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  • 22891
    thats so crazy and rude, thats never happened to me but what if you were using the phone cause of an emergency, that is so wrong
      May 14, 2017 4:38 PM MDT
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