This Week August 8. 1990. Page MS ETIQUETTE — = = > 4 »| Ne a ou needn’t talk quite so loudly. - Miss Manners had already noticed that you have a portable telephone. One of these days, she is told, everyone will have one. There will be cheap, miniature telephones available that can function anywhere. No one meed ever again be stuck with having to be said for not being able to be in touch with everyone all the time. But etiquette favors people who are actually there in the flesh over disembodied voices — a principle that most telephone devotees have failed to master. Not even greed seems to be strong enough to allow business people to ignore the unknown and tentative The offense is not in talking on the telephone, much less in owning the equipment with which to do this. in order to do this. = not to use a portable phone It consists of intruding on others, or neglecting others, You wouldn’t think that Miss Manners would have to tell people not to take telephones to concerts and parties. But that’s only because you have not received the reports she has and still to talk to the person he or she is je with. Technology is a wonderful thing. But sometimes it reckons without the even more awe-inspiring force of eti- quette. Just because something can be done, that doesn’t mean it may politely be done. Miss Manners understands that for Miss-Manners By JUDITH MARTIN your fellow citizens to exhibit a modicum of taste. It is not only the noise, as in the case of a concert, that vio- lates propriety. Many gather- ing, including all social events, are spoiled by being the owners of portable telephone, the No. 1 etiquette hazard is embarrassment. There is hardly any more public wallflower than the person who is obviously lugging around telephone equip- ment in a bag that never seems to ring. And it is, of course, Miss Manners’ duty to sym- pathize about all etiquette problems. But she allows . ee some discretion about which ones to suffer ver first. In the matter of peripatetic telephones, she worries first about the non-users present who are being annoyed. There are other victim — those who are being telephoned relentlessly, just when they thought they had a few minutes respite from their bosses or talka- @ tive acquaintances who had gone out. There is a lot igh Quali ig WH EORD. Cars & Trucks e 1990 FORD PROBE GT JET BLACK, 2.2 L. TURBO PERFORMANCE ALL POWER & AUTO, AIR STK. 90896 WAS $26,237 24,500 TEMPO 4 DR. SEDAM WHITE. STEREO, 5 SPEED P. MIRRORS, “¢ ‘12, 500 STK. 90920 WAS $13,603 RANGER SHORT BOX 5 SPEED ECONOMY WASH 8 *] 1,200 MUSTANG LX 3 DR. HBK AUTO. P. WINDOWS ee $15, 400 STK. 90566 WAS $16,937 ‘RANGER S/ CAB XLT V6, AT O.D. TILT CRUISE, ALL POWER WAS $21,797 THUNDERBIRD RED, V6, AT O:D. 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