What is with people and cell phones? Why do they think everyone wants to here their business? I’m sitting in a coffee shop and getting the full low down of some woman’s entire wedding plans as she is discussing all the inane details with a friend for everyone to hear. Why she doesn’t take this call outside is beyond anyone’s comprehension.
Right now I know about how a member of the groom’s family will be making special dishes for only some people of the wedding party and not others, that her husband to be is upset with her for warning people about his nefarious womanizing brother. Not to mention where they will be staying and when they will be living for their honeymoon. This is information that I don’t need in my life but because of her misguided belief that she thinks everyone should know she is getting married she is inflicting this protracted self-inflating conversation on those of us who just want to enjoy our coffee check our email, or read the newspaper.
I’m not advocating for the elimination of cell phones. It’s just that the ubiquitous use of them has resulted in people suffering under the delusion that somehow any call they get on their cell phone is one that needs to be shared with all within earshot. I’m convinced this has happened because cell phones themselves are relatively cheap and just about everyone has one. There was a time when they were the toys of the rich not to mention the size of a brick. In fact that’s what the first portable cell phone looked like a brick with an antenna sticking out. You had to have money to afford the phone and pay the roaming charges.
I suppose we can blame Star Trek because all the phones look like the communicators Capitan Kirk and Mr. Spock carried. But since Star Trek was one of my favorite shows, I refuse to blame them for the crassness of some people who just don’t have the common sense to realize that those around them really don’t want to know that Aunt Bessie is coming to the wedding. After all they only used their communicators as intended to have Scotty beam them up. Which gives me an idea, maybe there is an app I can download on my phone that will allow me to beam this person to a location where someone will really want to hear what she has to say. If only.
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