No cell phones in clubs
mr_33
Florida
Went to a club today for lunch that had a sign on the door "No cell phones". I can totally understand, especially since most phones have cameras.
But I always bring my phone because I don't wear a watch and I've found almost every club I've been in goes to great effort to avoid showing the time. Even clubs with TVs playing various (sports) channels don't seem to show the time.
But today I found the best reason not to bring a cell phone into the club. Even though the phone was in lock mode (no buttons do anything), somehow it became unlocked and dialed my wife's cell phone while I was getting LDs. I thought something was up when I pulled the phone and noticed it was unlocked and on the address book. So for subsequent dances I put it on the table next to us.
Checked the call history once outside the club, a 5:48 long call to my wife's cell phone (it's the only number in the address book). F*CK!!!
Damage control: I cranked up the volume on the car stereo and called the number again, leaving the phone on the seat. A 3+ minute call about 40 minutes after the previous one. I'm hoping the music in the club was loud enough to drown out anything incriminating.
Assuming I get out of this situation, next time I will start powering my phone off, or just leaving it in the car.
But I always bring my phone because I don't wear a watch and I've found almost every club I've been in goes to great effort to avoid showing the time. Even clubs with TVs playing various (sports) channels don't seem to show the time.
But today I found the best reason not to bring a cell phone into the club. Even though the phone was in lock mode (no buttons do anything), somehow it became unlocked and dialed my wife's cell phone while I was getting LDs. I thought something was up when I pulled the phone and noticed it was unlocked and on the address book. So for subsequent dances I put it on the table next to us.
Checked the call history once outside the club, a 5:48 long call to my wife's cell phone (it's the only number in the address book). F*CK!!!
Damage control: I cranked up the volume on the car stereo and called the number again, leaving the phone on the seat. A 3+ minute call about 40 minutes after the previous one. I'm hoping the music in the club was loud enough to drown out anything incriminating.
Assuming I get out of this situation, next time I will start powering my phone off, or just leaving it in the car.
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But ya, their motive for banning them is absolutley camera/video phones.
i have 2 fones, one is a flip, that one is pretty safe. the other is not. its a touch face, and and be answered without my realising it. and it has a gps. id hate for my boss to have to hunt me down...
"WHERE ARE YOU? your gps says..."
You have to check back it here and let us know how you made out. No pun intended.
icedawg,
The cells I've had with GPS could all be disabled. I've heard that if you disable the GPS, a 911 call can still be tracked, however.
Issue two: Plenty of clubs that I frequent have signs that say "no cell phones" and, obviously, they're out to reduce the pictures and videos that people could take of the girls. I am not against that idea at all, because, if I could take a cell-phone video in a club of a girl naked on stage and make her life miserable, then, by same token, someone ELSE could take a cell-phone video OF ME in the club and make MY life miserable. Nevertheless, I bring my cell phone (it's a latest model Blackberry, with all the bells and whistles) into the clubs quite often. Nobody hassles me about it, as long as I keep it in my lap when I decide to use it. I check for text-messages, emails, and whether or not voice messages have come in. I guess I could tilt it and start taking pictures. And, on more than one occasion, I've found a badly out-of-focus mug shot of me, or of a stripper, or of the two of us cuddling up, about three weeks later, filed neatly in my photos folder on my cell phone. Then I go, "Oh yeah, I did get the camera out when she and I were playing late in the morning!" I don't mind, as long as I'm the one who got home with the picture to delete it!