Cell Phone Use

Re “Cell Phones Get Too-Busy Signal,” April 28:

I have news for public cell phone user Joe Smulan, quoted as saying, “My cell phone is my office. . . . When it goes off (in a public place), this is what you (bystanders) get.”

Dear Sir: There is a name for people whose lives are interrupted by the ringing of and the conversations that take place on other people’s business phones. We are called “employees.” As such, we are entitled to compensation for our involvement in your affairs. Please provide information regarding where we may address our wage and benefit requirements and either pay up or shut up.

JOHN SHAFFER DIBELKA

San Dimas

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Timothy Smith says he leaves his cell phone on “24 hours a day, seven days a week” and if someone in a restaurant (and presumably anywhere else) has a problem with it, “that’s just tough.”

I applaud him for doing us all a service. I encourage him and others like him to use their cell phones as much as possible and to make sure they hold them very close to their heads (or any part of their bodies, if they use an earpiece) while doing so. After a few years, this ought to solve the problem for everybody on either side of this issue.

BRIAN ROSENBERG

Los Angeles