One of the BIGGEST parts of my own vacation is leaving the ungodly tether that my own business has forced me to be attached to at the hip in the wall safe and turned off!!! I hate that normally at home I can be interrupted at any given time by customers or employees in need. I love what I do and that is why I started my own business but I can say without hesitation that the phone is the very last thing I want in the park with me. We go old-school in the parks...if we separate then we arrange to meet up at a set location at a set time. It worked when I was a kid and there is no reason it should not work now.
Onto the topic of rudeness. People have gotten too carried away with themselves, their lives and their ridiculously short attention spans and I get totally exasperated by it on a daily basis. They have no concept of the fact that their lives and conversations spill out into the public domain and we could care less about their discussions. For some reason people on phones seem to talk louder than they would to each other sitting side by side. Kids need to be taught that you can wait more than 10 minutes without needing to play Angry Birds or some such drivel. Engage in conversation, talk about what rides you would like to to that day, look at the birds or geckos running around but for goodness sake do something besides electronica!
I sound like the angry old man who keeps the baseballs that get hit into his yard but there you have it...my two pennies to rub together.
Rant on, curmudgeon, rant on!
In all seriousness, the "instant availability" granted by cel phones has really begun to grate on me. I work 60 plus hours a week, and am on call 110 hours a week, and if I happen to miss a phone call from some idiot sales manager, I get yelled at.
I really only get to spend a few weeks a year with my kid, due to geography, and our Disney trips are the largest span of time we spend together in person annually. My coworkers know this...and swear before each trip that they will be fine while I am gone.
I have yet to do one Disney trip in three years where there hasn't been some overriding emergency that they blew up my phone for. Of course, it wasn't an emergency...but they make them into emergencies...
I don't mind a quick call, or even answering emails. But the constant requirement that I be available at all times of day or night is grating.
That being said, it makes the state of cellular service and Internet at WDW even more annoying to me, because it makes doing any sort of work remotely quickly a hassle.
