rheasilvia: (Walk without walking)
[personal profile] rheasilvia
A little while ago, I was sitting in my favorite tea house, happily drinking tea and reading Guardian fanfic on my tablet, as you do. The woman at a neighboring table kept casting annoyed glances my way without ever quite looking at me. I wondered about this briefly and then ignored it.

Eventually, she came up to me and spoke thusly: "Excuse me, but your cell phone has been in my back this whole time. Are you going to be done using it soon?"

I blinked at her and eloquently replied: "... what now? My cell phone is doing what...?"

Upon which she decided that further conversation was useless, disgustedly snorted and shook her head, and sped to the counter to pay. She hastily collected her things and rushed out the door, never deigning to look at me again and leaving her tea half-drunk.

The waitress and I theorize that she was bothered by the radiation/bad cell phone vibes/whatnot coming off of my tablet. Incidentally, my tablet was on airplane mode, so it wasn't sending anything into her back. Also, the tea house has wifi (which I assume she was blissfully ignorant of). Also, good luck escaping cell phone radiation anywhere in this city...

Date: 2019-06-21 01:03 pm (UTC)
jo_lasalle: a sleeping panda (zyl waving)
From: [personal profile] jo_lasalle
OMG!

I find the radiation fear totally plausible after that story, but wow, I'm amazed that's still a thing and that the people freaking out about it manage to leave the house. O__o I think the last time I had someone freak out about cell phones in their vicinity was in, like, 2010...

"In my back"... LOL!

Date: 2019-06-21 01:36 pm (UTC)
jo_lasalle: a sleeping panda (ZYL red)
From: [personal profile] jo_lasalle
I confess in the moment when you weren't even using a phone, I probably wouldn't have got it either. "What do you mean? I didn't throw my phone at you..."

I lived for a while with some very Öko people, and had a sort-of-aunt who was easily panicked about her pacemaker, that's where I encountered this in the wild! But, ages ago. I think even that sort-of-aunt now has a mobile phone. *g*

Date: 2019-06-21 02:09 pm (UTC)
akk: (Perv-Tree[tm])
From: [personal profile] akk
I admit reading "...concealed-carrying..." in context of mobile devices just made my day!
Thank you. :)))

Date: 2019-06-21 02:15 pm (UTC)
jo_lasalle: a sleeping panda (Shen Wei red)
From: [personal profile] jo_lasalle
YES! I forgot to mention this. *g*

Date: 2019-06-21 01:04 pm (UTC)
naye: three dots above renji and ichigo from bleach (...)
From: [personal profile] naye
I am so baffled by this kind of thing but I know it happens? Unless people I know all over are running into the same tablet/phone hating woman...

Date: 2019-06-21 02:45 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] clevermanka

Date: 2019-06-21 04:16 pm (UTC)
trobadora: (Castiel - headache)
From: [personal profile] trobadora
OMG, WTF??????

Date: 2019-06-21 04:55 pm (UTC)
firestar: (d'oh)
From: [personal profile] firestar
*blinks repeatedly* What the what now? o_O

Date: 2019-06-22 08:10 pm (UTC)
firestar: (endangering the galaxy since 2004)
From: [personal profile] firestar
You'd think so. o_O

Date: 2019-06-21 05:42 pm (UTC)
extrapenguin: A collection of beakers filled with blue fluids. (science)
From: [personal profile] extrapenguin
Ha! Oh dear, that is sadly hilarious. (Though now I'm jealous of the fact that you have a tea house. The perils of living in the land of the coffee drinkers...) (I'm reminded of that one thing I heard about people who live next to nuclear power plants living longer than those who don't – because the people who worry themselves to an early grave won't live there.)

Date: 2019-06-21 08:40 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] demitas
Wow, that's.... a thing, lol. What a weird way to phrase it, too!

Date: 2019-06-21 09:58 pm (UTC)
china_shop: A coloured-in cartoon of Shen Wei. (Guardian - cartoon Shen Wei)
From: [personal profile] china_shop
Haha, how confusing! That poor woman.

Date: 2019-06-22 04:18 am (UTC)
geeklover80: (Isak & Even Smiling Outside B&W)
From: [personal profile] geeklover80
I would have had no clue how to respond to that gibberish.

Stacey

Date: 2019-06-22 04:42 am (UTC)
asya_ana: (Default)
From: [personal profile] asya_ana
Um... I'm baffled? Good luck sitting next to someone without a phone! *sigh*

Date: 2019-06-23 01:19 am (UTC)
unrelaxing: (Default)
From: [personal profile] unrelaxing
This is WILD. Imagine glaring at houses as you walk past because you're just getting their wifi... radiation?

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