Dear Bluetooth, the Crazed Send Thanks
Apr 12th, 2007 by Alex
Leaving the grocery store yesterday, I walked past a women with long hair. She was loading groceries into her car’s trunk and talking as if she were in the middle of a conversation. She looked as me as I walked past and kept talking. Not to me, clearly.
A year or two ago I would have said she was crazy, carrying on a conversation with herself in the middle of a parking lot. That would be a reasonable assumption on my part.
Today it isn’t that simple. Thanks to Bluetooth headsets, there’s no way to tell. Not only do people look incredibly stupid walking about with a piece of plastic clipped to their ear, I feel that we’re somehow obligated to expand our benefit-of-the-doubt for crazy people. If you encounter someone in a parking lot who’s looking at you and talking, they could be:
- not crazy, talking to me directly
- not crazy, talking to someone on the phone
- crazy, talking to me directly
- crazy, talking to themselves
- crazy, wearing headset but talking to me directly
- crazy, wearing headset but talking to someone on the phone
- crazy, wearing headset but talking to themselves
- crazy, wearing headset but thinking they’re talking to someone on the phone
It makes my head hurt.
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Ahhh…my sentiments exactly. Personally I cannot stand the headsets. They’re great for in the car as it surely means safer driving, but to see someone just wearing one to “look important” bothers the hell out of me. It’s bad enough we all carry phones around in our pockets, purses, jackets, etc… but now we feel the need to keep one constantly clipped to our ear??? I remember growing up with a rotary dial phone. Too much connectivity.