When is it Acceptable to Use a Cell Phone? When is it acceptable to use a cell phone? That's really a difficult question. Especially because the answers can differ widely depending on who is responding to them. For example, if you are the person who is being annoyed by the fact that another person is talking on the phone, inside a restaurant, you'll probably say that it is not polite of him or her to …showed first 75 words of 901 total…

…showed last 75 words of 901 total…can convince people to make themselves aware of how their actions are affecting other people, the cell-phone problem will go away by itself, along with a lot of other annoying behavior. Even so, I do not believe that someone should be fined for having bad manners. If bad cell phone behavior is curtailed, then the cellular and non-cellular alike should be able to get along. It seems as though cell phones are here to stay.