Please don't answer your cell with music blasting in your car lol. Or eat some crunchy food in the phone, it's quite annoying.

Turn it off when you go into a restaurant or a public place where others will hear your conversation. We all managed to exist before cell phones. Not only don't answer the cell phone with music blasting in the car, don't use the cell phone when you are driving.

I was at a funeral this weekend and I got annoyed at how many people not only left their phones on, but how many answered and then left them on again.

Switch it off when in meetings

If you are talking to someone in person ignore an incoming call and let the call go into messages yo...

If you have a long conversation, be aware of the people around you and don't continue to talk loudly and interupt others consentration. Go to another room if you have to continue to talk loudly.

It's pretty darned simple: Unless you have a pressing need to be contacted (i.e. a REAL emergency), then when you are with someone else, in a public place, or in some kind of business or private setting, put it on vibrate and let the phone answer your calls or turn the sumb*tch off. And take that stupid bluetooth gizmo out of your ear, too. EXAMPLES: Meals with family or friends: You are there with THEM. Not the phone. Public restrooms: Come on. I'm not REALLY interested in having you broadcast my bodily functions around the world. BUT, if you are stupid enough to use a cell phone in the restroom while I'M there, stand by for an audio broadcast on a HUGE scale! I will go out of my way to make the most God awful sounds of gastrointestinal agony you have ever heard in your life. Public settings like grocery stores: Go ahead and use them. But DON'T let it interfere with the cash register lady's job. Put the phone away until AFTER you have paid, received your change, piled everything in your cart, and are on your way out the door. Churches: Do I REALLY need to say anything about this? Business: Like meetings and what-not. Unless you are a bigwig who carries a phone for business use, TURN YOURS OFF! Your use is governed by your responsibilities and the desires of the one conducting the meeting. In general, if you are a little fish in the pond, DON'T p*ss off the big fish in the pond with your phone. General use when with family or friends: Politely excuse yourself, move to some place with at least SOME semblence of privacy and decorum, and then conduct your business on the phone. Moving vehicles: Again, do I REALLY need to say anything? Hands free is one thing. Shooting the sh*t on the cell phone while trying to merge in 70 MPH rush hour traffic from a crowded on-ramp into an insanely packed mob of other idiots driving tons of steel with their OWN cell phones stuck to their ears is beyond insane. It's a Class-A attempt at a Darwin Award of your very own...and someone else's, too. Control the phone, folks. Don't let the phone control you.