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Seriously? Put Away the Damn Phone.

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October 14, 2015       1 Comments
By: O. J. Cunningham

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In Iowa, there's restaurant that discounts meals 15% if the diner checks his/her cellphone at the door when entering the restaurant.
 
PUT IT AWAY

Local stay-at-home mom Tiffani Lemonjello (Pronounced Lay-Mon'-Gel-Oooooh) announced today that she will be running for Mayor of Bay City (Write In Candidate) in the upcoming election.

Her Platform? Cell Phone Abuse.

Have you ever been in a restaurant where more than half the people at every table ... is texting or talking on their cellphones?

Lemonjello says she has and added she can no longer tolerate cell phone abuse in restaurants and will be running on a platform to eliminate the use of cell phones in restaurants for anyone over the age of 5 -- Young children can play games to keep them occupied..

Lemonjello said that her stance on cell phone abuse is similar to the same problems that restaurants and other businesses had with cigarette smoking in the past decades.

Lemonjello, age 58, has been a lifetime smoker. "If I have to stop smoking in restaurants, then these damn phone geeks need to stop pulling out their cell phones every time they slide their butt onto a restaurant chair or booth."

Lemonjello says she remembers when everyone used to smoke every place. "You would light up anytime you wanted to and we smoked at dinner table, breakfast table, ... There was smoke everywhere," said Lemonjello. "Now it's almost a criminal act to light up a cigarette if you're not in a closet inside your own home."

"Don't get me started about seatbelts," Lemonjello went on.

She's willing to phase in the lockdown on cell phones in restaurants, Lemonjello went on. After all, she pointed out, these kids have never lived in a world where cell phones were not allowed anytime, anywhere, anyplace.

"But that doesn't make it right or good for them," she said.

Lemonjello said she has strong support in her bingo group for her cell phone policy stance.

"There is no one in my bingo group that ever brings out a cellphone at Bingo," said Lemonjello. Lemonjello says bingo people have class. "And that's where I got the idea that there could be a lot of support for my run for Mayor based on this simple platform."

"Right now, no one seems to care about cell phone abuse in restaurants," said Lemonjello. "Twenty-five years from now, everyone will understand just how bad the phone blight really is. People need to be made aware. We need to get ahead of this."

Lemonjello said that the human population today really has no idea how much damage they are doing to one another every time they pull out their cell phone in a public place. Lemonjello went on to say that it's only "going to get worse" unless someone takes a stance.

Lemonjello said she is doing all of her fundraising right now at bingo parlors in and around the local area.

"I already have $83.27 in my war chest." Lemonjello said that she felt she had a really good start and had several signatures on a petition to get her name on the ballot or as a write-in for Mayor.

In Iowa, there's restaurant that discounts meals 15% if the diner checks his/her cellphone at the door when entering the restaurant.

Something has to be done Lemonjello said. Lemonjello pointed out that smoking started in bars and around campfires in the old West and soon became so prevalent in our society by the mid-1970s that it seemed like it would almost be impossible to stop people from smoking anywhere they wanted to.

But nobody smokes nowhere these days.

Lemonjello says her lockdown stance on cell phones is an identical problem that the cigarette ban people had. Sure there's going to be "push back," Lemonjello said. But hey, everyone knows that cell phones in the restaurant are bullshit. Just like everyone got the message that smoking cigarettes in a restaurant and at the supper table was wrong.

Something's got to be done.

I'm the one that can do it.

"It's time for humans to interact with humanity again," Lemonjello said, pounding her fist onto the table. "I mean business."

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Clubmudslide Says:       On December 09, 2015 at 01:29 AM
In restaurants? Seriously, how in the hell is it harming anyone else? It's not like people driving down the freaking road texting, accessing the internet or talking on the phone. This bitch is nuts.
Agree? or Disagree?


O. J. Cunningham

O. J. Cunningham is the Publisher of MyBayCity.com. Cunningham previously published Sports Page & Bay City Enterprise. He is the President/CEO of OJ Advertising, Inc.

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