Cell Phone Faux Pas and Decaying Beachhouses
Talking on your cell phone in bathrooms and dealing with aging vacation rentals.
July 16, 2010 -- Q: Jeremy Piven from Entourage recently made news for allegedly dropping his cell phone in the toilet in a restaurant bathroom, then calling on the staff to fish it out. I have a feeling you might have something to say about this. What do you think?
A: For starters, how great would it be if this happened to everyone who thinks it's okay to use their cell phone in a public bathroom? Lately, I've overheard more and more people blithely answering—and sometimes placing!—calls while they're using the restrooms. Come on, people! You can wait a couple of minutes. Believe me, the person on the other end of the line does not want to hear toilets flushing in the background.
But in this case, if Mr. Piven actually made the restaurant staff retrieve his phone, he deserves a special place in hell. You drop it in, you fish it out—I don't care if you're a celebrity.
Q: Is it okay to bring a boom box to a public beach?
A: Sure, if you use headphones with it!
But unless you intend to time-travel to 1985 in order to visit this beach, why in the world would you want to lug a boom box anywhere? You might want to investigate these amazing doo-hickies called "MP3 players" instead.
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Q: My elderly aunt is in a nursing home, but still owns a house on the beach. She asked if my husband and I would like to go there for a week—rent-free. We were thrilled, but when we got there, it was in serious disrepair. There were broken windows, and worse, mice! We had to spend about two days of our vacation shopping for cleaning supplies, scrubbing the place down, and waiting around for a handyman to fix the windows. She also didn't tell us there were no sheets and towels in the house, so we had to buy some at a local store. All in all, it cost us several hundred bucks. Should I tell her about the problems or not? She never married or had kids, so I'm really her only family.
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