The Cell Phone Call

[Karl/Pa.]

After a looooong tiring day, a business class commuter settled down into his seat and closed his eyes. As the airplane taxied away from the gate, the young woman sitting next to him pulled out her cell phone and started talking in a very loud and very annoying voice:

"Hi sweetheart. It's Abbie. I'm on the airplane."

"Yes, I know it's the six thirty and not the four thirty, but I had a long meeting." "No, honey, not with that Kevin from the accounting office; it was with the boss." "No sweetheart, you're the only one in my life." "Yes, I'm sure, cross my heart!"

Fifteen minutes later, she was still just blabbing away, very loudly, in her incredibly annoying, high pitched, whiny, nasal voice.

When the man sitting next to her had enough, he leaned over and said loudly and clearly into her phone, "Abbie, hang up the damn phone and come back to bed.”

Abbie doesn't use her cell phone on planes any longer.