cell phones in clubs

The clubs I frequent dont necessarily prohit you bringing them in, but they have signs that prohibit using a cell phone. I generally leave mine in the truck. If I make a stop in during the day, I will bring it in, put on vibrate in case the office or a client calls. If I need to, I'll go outside and return the call.

Do the clubs y'all go to check whether your cell can take pictures or not? In one of my faves, the King of Diamonds, they ask to see your phone. In another of my faves, BJ's, I saw management got pretty worked up when some guy whipped out a phone and pointed it at the stage.

I use my cel phone almost exclusively because with my plan long distance calls are free - I make calls to and from all over the East Coast and it's never cost me a dime. As a result my phone bill is a lot less than it used to be. But I never take my phone into any public place - restaurant, bar, SC, gym (in fact they're banned in a lot of gyms) etc. and I think people who use their phones in such places are assholes. Very few people know my cel phone number and I plan to keep it that way. And I let my answering machine pick up my land line calls so I never get unwanted calls anymore - it's great. Being basically anti-technology, I probably wouldn't have a cel phone but my job at one time required it and I became hooked. I don't know how I ever got along without it. I'd give up my TV set before I'd give up my cel phone.

I bring my cell into the club all the time, although I have to head to the restroom to use it. I sometimes run back & forth to the john so much, everyone at the club must think that either I'm incontinent, or that I have a bladder the size of a pea.

I remember a few years ago when I first saw someone talking with a hands free headset. He was walking into the grocery store talkling very loudly and insistently. My first thought was I guess crazy people have to shop too. Later I saw the microphone clipped on his shirt and the earpiece.

My cell phone is the only phone I have other than my office phone. I had my old land line phone number ported to my cell phone 2 years ago when the FCC made the phone companies offer that. I take it everywhere, but I silence it when I'm in a club. Or in warm weather, when I dress light, I leave it in my car.

I have taken it to the mensroom a few times to place a call. It was only a few years ago when you would hear a guy talking in the mensroom stalls, and you'd do a double take. Now, it's nothing you even notice.

I believe the prepaid cell phones only cost something like $20 or $50 or something and were good for at least a year. Again I haven't investigated that lately so I don't know if those offers are still out there.

At $20 per month for 12 months and for only 3 calls, those 3 calls cost you $240 or an average of 80 dollars a phone call. However I suppose you may think it's worth it for an emergency. I've heard about some cell phones that are prepaid that you don't have monthly charges with but I haven't investigated. I would only use that for an emergency most likely.

1/2 the clubs I frequent seem to prohibit them, I saw a manager or bounce rip a cell phone/camera out of a guys hads recently when he was caught taking a pix.

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Wow! And I thought I was the only one without a cellphone. Everyone thinks I'm weird.

I don't have a cell phone either. I'm usually not that interested in too many people contacting me. I get annoyed at many of the phone calls that I do get.

I did manage to get a guy who was either a telemarketer, a scam artist, thief, or terrorist angry because he said I was wasting his time on the phone. Well he called me. He was just a fool if he thought I was going to fall for his line that I won something and then give out my credit card number to pay a small 4.95 shipping and handling fee. I was bored at that time otherwise I would have just hung up on him in about 2 seconds. I remember one stripper told me she loved to play gags on telemarketers before the do not call list. I liked the one where she said she put the call on hold because she just ate a bean burrito and had gas. Then used some machine she bought to make all kinds of noises into the phone. Just goes to show that some people really go all out to annoy telemarketers. No, I don't want someone to call and harass me anytime they want to with a cell phone.

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AN: I can completely respect that. I hate phones. I never answer my cell unless it's a stripper (they don't like to leave messages) or a client.

They are not allowed in any of the clubs I frequent. One place outside of Boston had the smashed remains of a camera phone that two dancers destroyed when they caught the guy trying to take pictures of them while on stage.

I know this puts me back in the 20th century, but I don't have a cell phone. I don't even like my regular phone.

I thought the poser yapping away on his cell phone, trying to talk louder than the music, was a fixture in every club.

I've never seen any prohibitions on cell phones in the clubs I frequent... but I do understand the reasons behind them. I wouldn't have any problem with it.

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I know of clubs that allow them out on the floor, but not anywhere near the stage. The clubs that do table dances don't allow them at all where I go... I don't have a camera phone, so the urge has never struck me to even try and take pics...

I don't know how you could use a cell PHONE inside a club, in the first place. The db level is normally so high; you'd need a 1000-watt amp in the phone to hear. At least that is how I find most clubs.

Since cell phone cameras became common, every club I have visited has made you take it outside.

They seem to be banned in most clubs lately, or rather they make you take them outside to use them. Cell phones are also banned in a lot of government buildings now.