Cell Phone Etiquette - Can you hear me NOW?!"

I hate it when people chat on their cell phones on the airplane, JUST before take off, in elevators, in the grocery store checkout line...actually in any line that involves someone needing to have both hands to make the rest of the line waiters move forward. I can't STAND IT when phones ring in meetings, especially when the user has chosen the most annoying version of a familiar show tune... it is like listening to a 20 second clip of elevator music over and over again...but much much worse. Don't people realize that if you push ALMOST any button on your cell phone it will silence it? Then you turn it off...so it does not ring again...the same person will call back thinking they were cut off...

So, if you have a cell phone, please be polite to the poor people around you that have to listen to you say...."can you hear me NOW?"

I have a cell phone...I don't like using it in public...I excuse myself...like EVERYONE SHOULD...