There was a letter to the editor in the Press-Enterprise here in
> Riverside, Ca. today. Someone wrote about being hit by a shopping
> card in a market here by a woman using her cell phone, the person took
> it away and shut it off, then the lady called the party she was taking
> to and said that SHE had been interrupted by a rude person.
Good thing she wasn't about an hour further north, because if she'd run into me up here I probably would have done physical damage to the phone before giving it back to her. :)
I try extremely hard *not* to be rude when I'm using my phone in a public place, and I wish other people would too (though I don't expect it; I know better).
cart and talking, she never even know she had hit me, that one was not
> as lucky, I got up, took the phone from her and smashed it on the
> floor, she went nuts, but other pointed out that she had run me down
> and kept going, would that be considered hit and run?
Good for you. :)
Steve in Apple Valley
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