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By: Mike H

Mike H — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:10:55 +0000

I love it how people think that no one can hear their phone vibrate. Guess what, we can still hear it! I don’t know how many times I’ve been in class when another student’s phone rings on vibrate and everyone in the class looks around to see who’s phone is vibrating. Thanks for not distracting us!

By: nancy

nancy — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:03:22 +0000

much needed.

By: JL!

JL! — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:05:25 +0000

I never forget, because this is my ringtone.

By: Tara

Tara — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:05:30 +0000

Even got a photo taken w/ him and my cell phone after the concert. I guess there were no hard feelings!

By: Tara

Tara — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:04:12 +0000

Mine rang during a tender spiel moment at a Jonathan Martin concert (the family harmonizing, southern gospel singer). I was sitting second row of course.

Jonathan promptly stopped what he was saying, looked at me and said, “Is it for me? And ask them why they are not at this concert!”

“My phone never rings.” So everybody thinks!

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:53:05 +0000

First day of a graduate level class. I had turned my phone off but somehow the one button got pressed in my bag. Right as the prof talked about the phones off policy, MY phone rang. From that day forward, I didn’t bother turning the phone off anymore, I just turned the ringer off. LOL.

There are a couple friends of my FIL who purposely try to embarrass each other. One rang the other while the other in the choir loft. Then the first got rang while preaching in the pulpit. And so on. It was pretty funny.

By: Remley

Remley — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:17:54 +0000

The most embarassing thing that’s ever happened in our family was when my husband was called into a meeting with the President of our college for disciplinary reasons. The Pres. had been lecturing my husband about something when a loud scream of “All aboard!” accompanied by the laugh of Ozzy Osbourne interrupted…My husband hadn’t mastered setting his phone on vibrate until after that day.

By: MarkW

MarkW — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:29:00 +0000

We have a “cell phones off during church services” policy (not enforced), and I find it very amusing that 9 times out of 10, it is an “older” person’s phone that rings during the service. Not because they are the primary carriers of cell phones or get the most calls, mind you…

By: MarkW

MarkW — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:25:30 +0000

My Motorola phone does the same thing. I have not figured out how to disable that feature yet, but I have figured out how to lock the exterior keys (including the one that activates the voice-recognition command system). Unfortunately, the disabling becomes disabled whenever you open the phone, and so I rarely remember to re-enable the disabling. That annoying lady’s voice did once begin speaking once during a meeting with a customer, but it went over without much fuss.

By: Tyler Recker

Tyler Recker — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:39:55 +0000

I have an alarm set on my phone to go off at 4:50pm every day so that I know to wrap up my work and go home. And the alarm tone is a clip from a Norma Jean song…

Last week, I was attending the Acts 1:11 Conference for school credit and was taking part in a small Q&A with Danny Akin, Jerry Vines, Richard Land, etc. in the room. Despite my phone being silenced, ridiculous hardcore music rang out while I fumbled around to silence it.

By: Idhrendur (Stephen May)

Idhrendur (Stephen May) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:28:50 +0000

I do the same.

By: Cara Herzberg

Cara Herzberg — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:08:45 +0000

I would like to nominate this as the funniest comment I have ever read on any blog. I had to go get my husband and read it to him, and he belly laughed also.

By: Joe Foell

Joe Foell — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:39:07 +0000

Well said!

By: Chad

Chad — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:55:15 +0000

My wife and I used to dirty look those at church that did that until hers went off one sunday and she couldn’t find it in her purse. Longest 30 seconds of my life.

Count us as lousy hypocrites. We don’t do that anymore.

By: Shana

Shana — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:04:22 +0000

One of the ministers at FPC Jackson had his cell ring a few Wednesdays ago just before he began the opening prayer. He is like 80. I thought it was awesome. And he was so gracious. I always remember to put phone on silent.? Are we judging those who don’t? My husband is the guy whose cell phone rings at the wrong times. But he is weird abd spontaneous and cool and forgetful about the details. We live in a country where most people have cell phones. We are human beings. Massive fail. Sometimes the phones ring at the wrong time. Get over it.

By: kmom

kmom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:20:18 +0000

I leave mine on “vibrate” too. And in my pocket.
I react with a big startle when my pocket starts to vibrate though.
So it is pretty obivous.

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:55:28 +0000

That happened to my husband during church. “Please say a command.” Yikes…

By: Kyle Clark

Kyle Clark — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:21:57 +0000

I leave my phone on vibrate, but if I hit the buttons on the outside just right, it goes into the voice recognition mode. When that happens, a lady’s voice comes on and starts asking for the command. One of the first times it happened, I had no idea what it was. I’ve never used that function. So I was sitting in class and the way my pants bunched up turned the feature on and a lady starts talking. I am certain it is not me because I have my phone on silent. Everyone starts looking around and start coming to the conclusion that it is my phone. Lo and Behold, it was. I haven’t been able to figure out how to disable that feature…

By: JonoC

JonoC — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:15:01 +0000

Lets just say – I’m lucky my wife was running late to the altar!
Everyone was still talking so no one noticed.

By: Angie

Angie — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:58:20 +0000

None for me yet, but my husband and I were on worship team once and he had his iphone in his pocket, right in front of the guitar mic. During prayer, it rang, VERY LOUDLY for all the church to hear. Needless to say, we smiled a lot, rather sheepishly, for the tithes and offerings music.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:54:04 +0000

Ditto. Semper vibrato.

By: Chris Tryon

Chris Tryon — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:42:20 +0000

I once had my business partner call during a meeting with the City Manager. The ring tone: The Imperial March from Star Wars at high volume. Lesson learned.

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:40:02 +0000

+ 1 for always leaving it on vibrate. Of course, women often keep their phones in their purses so that may not be an option for them if they can’t detect the vibration from afar.

By: Ryan Thompson

Ryan Thompson — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:29:31 +0000

I hate my cellphone. I put it into airplane mode as often as possible.

The worst ever was when I was photographing a Banner of Truth ministers conference and was standing 20 feet from Derek Thomas and my phone went off full blast. Brilliant, a room full of stiff Presbies and Reformed guys listening to Derek Thomas get interrupted by the photographer’s cellphone.

Subsequently, I learned to leave my phone at home as often as possible or just shut it off.