{"id":1079,"date":"2015-07-19T09:49:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T16:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2015-07-19T09:49:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T16:49:34","slug":"sunday-soapbox-cell-phone-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=1079","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Soapbox&#8211;Cell Phone Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/media1.s-nbcnews.com\/i\/streams\/2013\/November\/131121\/2D9744988-tdy_annoying4_120824.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"213\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When you go to the movies there are multiple reminders to turn your cell phone off so you don&#8217;t disturb others. \u00a0 Unfortunately, there&#8217;s no such reminder in retail stores. \u00a0The other day a lady parked herself in the middle of an aisle (with her kid in a stroller, completely blocking the aisle) and had a 20 minute conversation with someone on her cell phone, loud enough to be heard aisles away. \u00a0 I didn&#8217;t hear anything related to a medical emergency, so I&#8217;m pretty sure the conversation could have waited until she was done shopping. \u00a0Instead, she shared her conversation with everyone who needed to shop anywhere nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Note to customers and people in general: \u00a0You&#8217;re really not that important, nor is your conversation. \u00a0Wait until you&#8217;re alone or at least far away from others. \u00a0 \u00a0If not, I&#8217;m probably going to do what this guy does&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CELL PHONE CRASHING at the MALL!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SR4BUCxG9vE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you go to the movies there are multiple reminders to turn your cell phone off so you don&#8217;t disturb others. \u00a0 Unfortunately, there&#8217;s no such reminder in retail stores. \u00a0The other day a lady parked herself in the middle of an aisle (with her kid in a stroller, completely blocking the aisle) and had <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=1079\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customer-stories","category-retail-humor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}