Things that piss me off #2: Mobile phone users that do not know how to regulate the ringing volume

So you are sitting there in the restaurant looking lovey-dovey into the deep turquoise pools of your partners' eyes and hey presto, Bach's symphony #3 strikes up at 120 dB at the next table.

Everybody tries to ignore it, but somehow the harder you ignore it, the longer it takes the person to find the frigging phone. To make matters worse, the clever soul has customised the ringing tone to get louder after every ring, so that after 10 seconds the whitehouse is scrambling jets to the restaurant, fearing the Iraqis have created a new sonic weapon of mass destruction.

These people are of course not rocket scientists like myself and therefore have not discovered the secret menu for making the telephone silent. So for all those poor people out there I have made a little diagram:



If you press the little red button you now have the power to make the phone silent. USE IT.