Self-imposed embarrassment

Ok, it's happened to everybody -- you are in a meeting, or at a restaurant or at the dentist's office and someone's phone rings. Only it doesn't ring, it blasts some endless idiotic tune of the month.

What's up with this? What ever happened to a phone that rang and then stopped? Why must it go on and on before its answered? Better yet, why don't people just use the vibrate feature?

If people are going to try to make a personality statement with a ring tone, perhaps they ought to put a little more thought into it.

Or maybe I'm just an old curmudgeon.

Did I mention the holidays are coming? Baaaaaaah, humbug.