Just got back from more Christmas squandering.
Outside the entrance to the shopping mall there is this guy talking on a bluetooth and with arms outstretched is showing whoever he’s talking to the size of something.
Honestly!
Attitudes like this confuse me. I’m sorry, but the subway is boring as hell. It isn’t dangerous to talk on the phone so why should you care if I do? It’s not like you need to preserve the library silence on the subway or something. Honestly some people are so easily offended and disturbed by other people daring to have their own lives…
I can’t figure out why people are so preoccupied by what OTHER people are doing. If someone was obnoxiously talking on the phone right freakin’ next to me, maybe that would annoy me. Or as someone mentioned upthread, at a place like a restaurant where I expect reasonable quiet. (Although, if I remember correctly, the guy was just wearing an earpiece, not using it. Looks tacky, but if he isn’t yelling into it, who cares?)
But in the great outdoors? Or walking down the street? Or in the supermarket? What freakin’ business is it of yours if someone is picking their nose, counting their steps, or talking into a Bluetooth headpiece?
I get mildly irked by a number of things my fellow humans do. Mouth breathing in closed spaces, questionable body odor, sneezing without covering their noses, loud talking (not on the phone, but with a living human being - tends to be the exclusive domain of teenagers)… but these are all part of the experience of, you know, interacting with the human race. Excepting the sneezing bit, which is freakin’ disgusting, I suck it up and realize I’m probably viewed as a jackass for something I’m doing/have done, and catalog it in my mental Rolodex of Weird Things People Are Doing Around Me.
Remember in the 80s when people were carrying around boomboxes next to their heads? That was a trend worthy of pitting. People using the latest technology that’s much less intrusive? Again, if I’m not interacting with that person, I really don’t give a flying fuck what they’re doing if they’re not littering or hurting anyone. Methinks if someone minding their own business using a Bluetooth apparatus is so annoying, you should invest in a bubble with tinted windows where no-one can bother you. Or stay at home.
And why people are so certain that the other people are trying to impress them. It would never occur to me that someone using some bit of technology was trying to impress me. I’m not that important.
Exactly.
Couldn’t agree more. It seems that it’s become a national pastime to find things to be offended about. Why not spend most of your day angry and hostile?
Sigh.
A lot of my clothing doesn’t have pockets. If I were to use a headset, depending on how comfortable it was, I might wear it sometimes even if I wasn’t talking at the moment, depending on the situation, just to keep from having to dig the thing out of my purse to answer the phone. Would I wear it every waking moment? No. Do I care if others do? Not really.
Well… that’s a hell of an assumption that the point of wearing the earpiece is to make YOU feel less important, but okay, let’s say it is. So what?
People buy fancy cars and fancy clothes for the same effect. Or go to the gym, or wear lots of makeup. It only works if you let it get to you. IMO, this is much more likely to be a tactic employed by people who actually know you and give a shit what you think. If you don’t know this person from Adam, why do you think they are trying to impress you? That’s pretty arrogant if you ask me. Most likely, they’re living their life, perhaps being toolish to an extent, but when I encounter people who appear to be attention-whoring, I ignore 'em. Problem solved for me, they’re out of my hair, and they’re deprived of finding a thin-skinned victim of their vanity.
If that’s what’s really going on.