Use of mobiles on city streets should be banned too. The idiots who use them wander about under the working classes' feet.

While once serving I asked a customer if she would like help with her shopping.
She answered yes so I started to help.
She promptly stood there texting whilst I packed her goods.
I was that shocked that anyone could be that ignorant that I packed her stuff. I did however accidentally 'punch' her crisps into the carrier bags.

I think I've told the story of me drowning a customer's mobile in an ice bucket.

When I managed the Merc dealership, I used to host a pre-Christmas lunch at The Potters' Club in Stoke for my major customers. This place was held in high regard and few customers ever cried off, knowing that they would be receiving top-quality food and drink and exceptional service, in what was a real Gentleman's Club.

During one particular event, one customer was constantly on one of his two mobile phones - this was 1993 and nobody got "free" phones, they cost upwards of £400 and he had one on Vodaphone and one on Celnet because of still-patchy coverage across the UK. It was obvious I wasn't the only one at the table getting pissed off with this, so I asked him to switch them off. He took no notice and after the next call I told him I'd drop the next one in the ice bucket. He obviously thought I was kidding because he just ignored me so, when it rang again, I reached across before he could take the call and deposited it in said ice bucket. The whole table went quiet until my MD said: "Charles, we'll buy you a new one for Christmas, now switch the other fooker off before it joins its brother".

The customer apologised to everyone, we continued with our lunch and never noticed any drop in business. He also got his new replacement phone two days later

Stick to the football forums petal

Got it in 1, Big G.
Too many people are too engrossed in their own little 'look at me, I'm so important' world and are oblivious to everything, and anyone, around them.
I travel frequently by train, and have lost count of the number of people I've seen trying to buy a ticket whilst holding a phone conversation at the same time, completely ignoring the polite notices displayed requesting the opposite.
In a similar vein, I just wonder what would have happened to this lady if she was returning to this country from holiday, and was stood at passport control with a phone stuck to her ear?

Airport security would probably delay her for 20 minutes asking inane questions because her talking on her mobile phone breached their security regulations. "Look at me, I'm so important" indeed.

Same goes for the people who insist on taking their oh-so-important calls in the quiet coach on the train.
At least on East Coast Trains, the great majority understand the purpose of a quiet coach but on SouthWest trains out of Waterloo the whole notion of a quiet coach is comprehensively ignored.

Southerners, y'see the world revolves around them ...

Not just that, but holding conference calls on a train, FFS.

You'd think they'd have the sense to book adjacent seats

I'm not condemning the woman, just the rude use of mobiles. If she is in an interpersonal relationship, as in this case with the cashier, it's just manners.

Like I said, mobile signals if I ruled the world, would be blocked in every public building.