Stop Talking Loud on the Cell Phone!

I don't usually rant other than for the love of marketing, but I HAVE to share this story. I'm in NY, VerticalResponse up for 6 American Business Awards tonight. Cross your fingers for us.

I get in at 10:30 at night, cab line at JFK is 300 people long or more. So yes, I get one of those "suspect" cabs. Desperation. I find that I'm sharing the cab with two other people, a woman and a man. The woman is in the back with me, first thing she says to the driver:

"I'm sharing a cab with THESE people?" She's going downtown so she says "Well you're dropping me off first."

Great, I thought. Keep thinking you'd be 301 in that line Janine, keep thinking. She proceeds to get on the phone and is at about a 150 on the decibel scale. Unreal. I take it for 40 solid minutes. We learn about her boyfriend, we learn about her doggy, until...you guessed, she starts talking about The Sopranos.

Now I'm on the plane for the last episode which I've basically watched the last 7 years for. Then, she SPOILS THE ENDING FOR ME!!!!!

I scream at her. She hangs up staring at me in fright. "We've had to listen to you scream on your phone for the last 45 minutes and then you spoil the freaking ending for me? You've GOT to be kidding. Stay off the phone for the remainder of the trip!!!!!" I was hungry too, didn't help.

Karma? When she got out of the cab she lost her phone.

There's my rant. It's for fun. I'll take it down at the end of the day and get back to marketing. Enjoy.

Comments

[Nick Marden]

David Chase had a quite a bit of fun with the selections that Tony flipped through on the jukebox before choosing Journey's "Don't Stop Believing". "Fade to Black" by the Rolling Stones might have been even more clever - did anyone freeze frame the screens of songs and write down any/all of the titles? I can't find that info on the web this morning. Certainly the other songs on the jukebox pages couldn't have been chosen at random...

Relating to your post, Janine, is there some sort of hearing loss unique to New Yorkers that makes them scream at other people?