From Social Q's:
While riding in the Quiet Car on Amtrak, which prohibits speaking on
cellphones and loud conversations, I sat down next to a man who was
reading a Kindle. Soon, I heard his breathing grow louder and increase
to full-blown snoring. I know that snorers have no control over their
sound level. But neither could I imagine reading quietly for several
hours with that roar coming from two feet away. What would the
appropriate response have been? (Note: Snoring is not specifically
prohibited on the signs.)
The columnist suggests LW either move or wake up the snorer and tell him he's snoring. But I don't think it's necessary to tell him he's snoring. It's not like he can do anything about it. Just nudge him and "accidentally" wake him up.
I am regularly included in group text messages. At times, I receive
as many as 100 texts from group members within a five-minute period,
leaving me feeling as if I’m trapped in other people’s streams of
consciousness. I rarely respond to these messages and would prefer not
to be included. Is it possible to opt out of them?
I wonder if there might be a technological solution for this. With email, you can set rules that would screen out emails with multiple recipients, for example. I wonder if you can do this with texting, perhaps with some of the texting apps that people seem to find it useful to use? If not, lets add it to the Things They Should Invent list!
2 comments:
In Linux there's something called /dev/null. Android supposedly has Linux somewhere deep within it, so it should be possible in principle to redirect some phone numbers to /dev/null.
There is a much simpler solution: "Please remove my number from these group texts. Thanks very much."
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