Hello? How's it going?......

"Hello? How's it going? I'm at a restaurant. Sure, I can talk." Don't you despise hearing these words at your table. You know that you and your tasks are going to be ignored for the next minutes. So you wait. Or maybe you ignore the guest the way they are ignoring you. Then when they hang up they expect you to be right there on the spot. How rude.

These people talking on their cell phones actually talk in a louder volume than they do in normal conversation. It would be nice if restaurants started bearing down on cell phone use. Some have started this trend by installing phoneless, soundproof phone booths. When a hostess sees someone on a cell phone, they say: "Ma'am, theres a cell phone booth right over there." This kind of forces proper etiquette on the guest. They protect some customers while providing a service to others. Of course there will always be the ones, expecially with the walkie-talkie phones, who use their phones to make themselves important (to who?).