Say no to cell phone use

As most of you probably know, the EU recently moved to permit cell phone use on flights within European airspace. This post from FlyAwayCafe discusses a bill recently introduced in Congress which would ensure that the US does not follow suit.

I can only applaud this – those of us who travel in trains are already bombarded with the incessant chatter of the woman who simply can’t resist telling Aunt Bertha about the fungus growing underneath her toenail, the aggressive salesman telling how he pawned off a mediocre product on an unsuspecting customer, or even the attorney who relentlessly waives attorney-client privilege by providing legal advice to a client on a crowded train. Unfortunately, the rest of us are along for the ride, whether we want to be or not, and the idea of an eight-hour flight next to just such a chatterbox is enough for me to consider going postal on someone.

What do you think?

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