You're in a room with people and your cellphone rings, but you don't want to answer. Do you

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9. OOOhhh! I would have definitely pulled out a notepad and taken notes!

Then laughed at him if he objected.

Ages ago there was a problem with the then new cell tower down the road - we were hearing pager messages through our audio-video system speakers, even when the amp was turned off. We called the phone company and the pager company and were told by the engineers from both that was impossible.

One day I could hear one of the messages clearly enough to take notes - from the tenor of the calls the recipient was an attorney and confidential information from the clients was being shared. But one of the messages was from someone who sounded like a relative of the attorney, so I called the number she had left on the pager message. I explained what had been happening, what I had done to stop it, and my concerns that confidential info was being broadcast indiscriminately. She promised to let her father (the attorney) know.

The unwanted messages stopped the next day. I guess a demonstration that the messages I was hearing were not in my head and a complaint from an attorney had a big influence on the engineers' opinions it was impossible!