To the people with a novelty "musical" ring tone on their cell phone: Do you know how bloody irritating that is??

At least with a normal ring, people can speak (and think) between rings. But your continuous electronic crap drowns out everything around you.

What made you think that anyone wants to hear a mechanized bastardization of Bach, Mozart, or Beethoven? What made you think that the "funky" ring was even remotely entertaining (or funky for that matter)? And what makes you think that it's in any way "cute" or "sophisticated", when it blasts out in a quiet coffee shop, causing everything to come to a halt until you decide to fumble through your belongings to answer it?

And finally, to the person on the sixth floor with a novelty ring tone who won't answer the phone when it rings: if you let it run through twenty repetitions of "William Tell" again, don't be surprised if a certain blogger demonstrates how you can make a cell phone more operate more quietly with the correct application of a ball-pein hammer.