No phones on planes, ever

So, Debra J. Saunders wants cell phones on airliners. (Tuesday column, “Let’s calm down about cellphones on planes.”) She must turn off her hearing aid before boarding. Almost everyone who uses a cell phone in public places is a boor. When they talk, they screech. When they laugh, they bray. The have no right to inflict their obnoxious selves on innocent bysitters.

Sitting close to someone who, for six hours, yacks, yacks, yacks about their bowel habits, the texture of the baby’s spit-up, the price of beans and who beat who at Canasta last week, is more than humans can endure. By her own admission, Ms. Saunders is one of the people out of whom passengers would love to pound the crud.

No cell phones on airliners. Ever.

Tom LaBelle

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