Cell phone obsession?

[Naina_Marbus]

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Say you are performing annual ceremony for your father, with the help of a priest. While the function is going on, the priest often receives several calls on his mobile phone during the ceremony. You just have to wait while the priest took each call, and then resumed the mantras as if nothing had happened.

If you ask the priest, he will likely tell you that another priest had apparently failed to show up at a wedding hall across town, and that the wedding-family was ringing round all the possible priests in town to check for possible substitutes...

Of course, the above example is merely one extreme. There are other situations - like the bank cashier is counting money for you, when suddenly his cell phone rings.....Or, the nurse is taking your blood pressure ....and so on and so forth.

Why is it that answering the cell phone takes such a precedence over anything else that is happening around you? No matter whom you are talking to, or that you are taking food just at the time the phone rings, you still reach for it. If you have encountered any such situations, please share with us.

But why?

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

The world has gone crazy!!! :loco:

How were people living in the past

without using a mobile phone??? :faint:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

In the hospitals they have a notice saying
"Kindly switch off your mobile"

During a consultation with a socialist
his mobile kept ringing all the time.

His wife who was also a doctor in the same hospital
wanted to discuss the finer details of their
escape into wilderness in the weekend. :car:

Finally he had to tell her curtly
"I am with a patient" and switch off his mobile.

We pay them through the nose but
they do not even hear what we say through their ears. :sad:

 

[Raji Ram]

Dear Naina Sir,

The situation you have described - annual ceremony of father - is much better off!

During one wedding, the senior sasthirgaL attend his mobile phone call and started to give a list of things

needed, moongil kambu, kayaru, brass vilakku, kOdi thuNi etc, without thinking how the people assemble

for a wedding would feel! :shocked:

People have stopped talking even a few nice words with the co passenger in a bus / train. They just :blah:

with someone on their mobile, like non-stop nonsense! I had to scold on guy to keep quiet, when he went

on talking to 'you know who' till midnight, when we were travelling to Bangalore by a night bus.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Verbal Visuals for the benefit of the co passengers!!! :ear:

I would have grabbed his phone and scolded

the you-know-who on the other end also.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

While waiting in the Frankfurt Airport I noticed a lady (not educated but the stinking rich type)
who was practically talking nonstop to someone in India, giving instructions, analyzing character and passing remarks.
I could not help thinking "If she can talk on a mobile in an international call for so much time,
what will she do in India...forgo sleep in order to talk???

 

[V.Balasubramani]

Sir, The existing law prohibits one using Mobile either while Driving or Riding. But these rules are conveniently thrown to the wind by the general public. Such acts of negligence results in reporting of lot of fatal cases. Accidents are on the increase. To avoid climbing the Foot over bridge, some unminding the risk involved simply cross tracks, and they do so seriously chatting on the Mobile, resulting in fatal. This is something very serious. Human life has become valueless. On the other day, a friend of mine’s son, a marine engineer by profession, went upstairs and while he bent to have a close look at the sun shade, the Mobile he kept in his shirt pocket fell down. He immediately attempted to catch it as it was bit costlier. Unfortunately in the process, he fell down injuring his head. His father had to spend a lot of money for his recovery. The money being terminal benefits of my friend.Lot of undesirable things are happening around us every now and then with the useage of Mobile and people are becoming more crazy and act funny. 

 

[sarang]

What will happen when google glass enters the scene? It is not yet on sale, but virginia state is planning to ban it!

 

[tks]

Human beings have a sense of selfishness in them and this shines through the use of cell phone.
Also a phone call that interrupts someone in the presence of others is seen by the person receiving the call as somehow important in front of others.

In one of the meditation class I attended a person received two calls and he was answering to whoever that he is meditating!
he interrupted everyone..

Occasionally an older person is given a smart phone and they do not know how to switch off the phone in places that requires complete silence - so all the rest of the people have to put up with the calls being received by that individual.

Unless there is a big fine involving money imposed on such people this practice will never stop

 

[Raji Ram]

Can the gift of mobile phone stop a wedding? Yes! It can!!

My friend's sister had only daughter and had not bought a mobile phone for her. The would-be-hubby was so generous

to present her with a costly mobile phone on the engagement day! Then...... he started chatting for long hours with her.

All the arrangements were done for the wedding. The day prior to 'Vratham' and reception, the groom told this bride that

his mom invites about 30 relatives each Sunday for a get together and lunch. He also told her that she has to cook for

all of them. This girl got annoyed and said she was NOT his cook lady to do so much work in the kitchen single handed.

Then what? Wedding stopped with a label that the girl is 'arrogant'! My friend and her husband had to stand in front of

the wedding hall to send all the relatives back home with an apology!

But this girl is lucky! She got a smarter guy who helps her in cooking food for both of them, in 'thani kudiththanam'!

 

[sangom]

Say you are performing annual ceremony for your father, with the help of a priest. While the function is going on, the priest often receives several calls on his mobile phone during the ceremony. You just have to wait while the priest took each call, and then resumed the mantras as if nothing had happened.

If you ask the priest, he will likely tell you that another priest had apparently failed to show up at a wedding hall across town, and that the wedding-family was ringing round all the possible priests in town to check for possible substitutes...

Of course, the above example is merely one extreme. There are other situations - like the bank cashier is counting money for you, when suddenly his cell phone rings.....Or, the nurse is taking your blood pressure ....and so on and so forth.

Why is it that answering the cell phone takes such a precedence over anything else that is happening around you? No matter whom you are talking to, or that you are taking food just at the time the phone rings, you still reach for it. If you have encountered any such situations, please share with us.

But why?

Thanks to Shri A. Raja, Moun Mohansingh & co., cell phone is very affordable in India. But there is every chance that it will become as costly as in the western countries and thus may go out of reach of a good section.

Today one woman who was blissfully talking over cell phone and was crossing a railway line (on her way to her workplace) got run over by train.!!

 

[Raji Ram]

In Sripuram Golden Temple, there is a counter to collect cell phones for safe keeping @ Rs. 20/

The income by this idea should be in lakhs!

At least Devi Sri Lakshmi is not disturbed by the cell phone ring tones!!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

In Sripuram Golden Temple, there is a counter to collect cell phones for safe keeping @ Rs. 20/

The income by this idea should be in lakhs!

At least Devi Sri Lakshmi is not disturbed by the cell phone ring tones!!

EVERYTHING seems to be costlier in the gold temple!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

What will happen when google glass enters the scene? It is not yet on sale, but virginia state is planning to ban it!

These are NOT for people traveling on road, water or air! :scared:

Google Glass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Raji Ram]

Wikipedia says:

Concerns have also been raised in regards to operating motor vehicles while wearing the device. West Virginia state

representative Gary G. Howell has introduced an amendment to the state's law against texting while driving that would include

bans against "using a wearable computer with head mounted display." In an interview, Howell stated, "The primary thing is a

safety concern, it (the glass headset) could project text or video into your field of vision. I think there's a lot of potential for

distraction."

How very true!

 

[Raji Ram]

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[renuka]

The day prior to 'Vratham' and reception, the groom told this bride that

his mom invites about 30 relatives each Sunday for a get together and lunch. He also told her that she has to cook for

all of them. This girl got annoyed and said she was NOT his cook lady to do so much work in the kitchen single handed.

Dear RR ji,


The girl did the right thing...how to handle cooking for 30 people every Sunday.

I remember a situation once when a relative of my husband was going to get married and the boy's side came to ask for her hand in marriage(it was a love marriage).

The boys mother was telling everyone that in their house the kitchen never sleeps and all relatives will be coming non stop through out the day and they keep cooking all the while..it was pretty evident from their body size!

The suddenly she asked me "what curry did you cook today in your house?..chicken or mutton or fish?"

I told her I am a vegetarian..then she panicked ..she was what???

Then she quickly asked the bride to be whether she was a vegetarian too.

She then quickly called for my Mother In Law and asked her "how come your DIL is a vegetarian? Is your family also vegetarian and are your relatives also vegetarian..cos I would not want my son to into a vegetarian family...who will cook his favorite dishes then?"

That lady went on and on asking my MIL how come she accepted a vegetarian as a DIL!

I was thinking what was her problem ?? It was not me who was marrying her son.

 

[Raji Ram]

Dear Renu,

I was happy and sad after this episode. Happy because the girl escaped; sad because it was a last minute

cancellation. A new custom created in tambrams is that they give the gift dresses for the relatives along

with the invitation so that no one will miss the gift on the crowded wedding hall. One of Ram's sisters in law

went one step ahead by adding the bhakshaNam packets also! Most of the mandapams do not give refund

of the advance, which is the full payment for two days including cleaning, advance for electricity and cooking

gas cylinders! So the loss was very heavy for my friend's sister.

 

[V.Balasubramani]

In Sripuram Golden Temple, there is a counter to collect cell phones for safe keeping @ Rs. 20/

The income by this idea should be in lakhs!

At least Devi Sri Lakshmi is not disturbed by the cell phone ring tones!!

RR Madam, What if the Ring Tone of the mobile is ‘Bhagyada Lakshmi Baramma’?

 

[Raji Ram]

My helper maid knows a new way to avoid paying mobile phone bills!

She will call the person she wants to talk to and cut it soon after the ring-tone is heard. When the other side calls

on seeing the missed call, she will say, 'I forgot to recharge my mobile! So I was unable to get the connection!'

Howzzzat?

 

[V.Balasubramani]

Dear Renu,

I was happy and sad after this episode. Happy because the girl escaped; sad because it was a last minute

cancellation. A new custom created in tambrams is that they give the gift dresses for the relatives along

with the invitation so that no one will miss the gift on the crowded wedding hall. One of Ram's sisters in law

went one step ahead by adding the bhakshaNam packets also! Most of the mandapams do not give refund

of the advance, which is the full payment for two days including cleaning, advance for electricity and cooking

gas cylinders! So the loss was very heavy for my friend's sister.

RR Madam, The loss is quite bearable when compared to the life l.....o....n....g wedlock.

 

[Raji Ram]

........ The loss is quite bearable when compared to the life l.....o....n....g wedlock.

Very true, Sir!

But the discussion about the get together on Sundays a few days earlier, would have saved my friend from

the embarrassment of asking for apology in front of the mandapam, on the day prior to the wedding!

 

[Raji Ram]

........ What if the Ring Tone of the mobile is ‘Bhagyada Lakshmi Baramma’?

Good suggestion! But it will be followed by long :blah: ...

There lies the real problem! :drum:

 

[Sastri]

My helper maid knows a new way to avoid paying mobile phone bills!

She will call the person she wants to talk to and cut it soon after the ring-tone is heard. When the other side calls

on seeing the missed call, she will say, 'I forgot to recharge my mobile! So I was unable to get the connection!'

Howzzzat?

This has become a beaten track excuse every one is aware of. It no longer is valid and has lost credibility.

 

[Raji Ram]

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