Dude, this year is over! Or it’s at least on its way there. And just a warning: You’re about to receive a rush of leads in news stories everywhere harkening the end-of-semester struggles, the whole Alice Cooper refrain of “school’s out for summer,” and every other wonderful cliché for the season.

But the good folks at Ed Board won’t lead you down that same old, well-worn, boring-as-hell path. Instead just relax your brain (if that’s possible while reading) and come to complain with us for one of the last times this year. Today’s gripe concerns cell phone etiquette.

Now, we know you’re thinking, “When did this column turn into a Seinfeld bit?” But don’t be alarmed. We aren’t cuing the energized slap bass and slapstick entrance by Kramer just yet. We’re all just too tired of people forgetting anyone else is around as soon as they pick up the ol’ fifth limb (slang for a cell phone-spread it around).

I think we can all agree we’ve had enough of the whole “I’m on the phone while I’m ordering food” routine. If we really cared that you just you just got a new TV and can’t wait to get home to watch the latest episode of “Two and a Half Men,” we’d probably tell you how horrible that show was.

Or we’d at least do it after ordering our turkey sub, but with the amount of time you’re taking double tasking inane banter and your order info, that probably won’t be happening today.

But most of all, what really steams us is the “talking ear-piercingly loud in public about obviously private things” caller. Whether we’re on our way to class, walking down the frozen pizza isle at Kroger (yeah, that’s a real college diet) or at the salon getting our nails did, we have absolutely no need to be inadvertently involved in your conversation.

The fact that your sex life just isn’t going all that well or that it’s just, like, awesome is none of our business. So unless you’ve got hot friends who need to relieve some tension too, let’s just keep it that way. Now maybe you can start toning it down in public about everything from sex to disgusting personal hygiene habits, and we can begin to collect our jaws from the floor.

So next time you’re stuck by someone like this and are tempted to just let obscenity and hate rain down, just take this little golden nugget of advice with you: Everyone around you realizes how stupid this person is, and that’s comfort enough.

However, if you do happen to be one of these people, either politely forget phone conversation in public altogether, or just stick to texting. You’d be doing the world a favor.