My friend Dianne asked me to inform you, gentle readers (most of whom
already know I'm sure) how unattractive cell phone headsets are, and
how annoying they are to everyone around their boorish fans.
Recent experience:
Man standing next to Dianne at airport: Hello, how are you?
Dianne, startled: Fine, and you?
Man, interrupting: I'm here at the airport, waiting for my luggage, so
I'll see you at the hotel soon.
Dianne, feeling like a class A, uh, well, like an idiot, turned away
fuming. The cad was talking on his stupid earpiece headset, so Dianne
couldn't even tell he wasn't addressing her.
To recap:
1. Phones are annoying.
2. Cell phones are evil.
3. Cell phone headset wearers (unless they are specifically working
for a telemarketing firm, in which case they suffer enough) should be
shunned by society. Hang up and wait till you're alone. You talk too
loud and we don't want to hear your personal stuff anyway.
I'll finish with a quote from my favorite satirist, Mark Twain. Here
is his 1890 Christmas card greeting:
"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and
aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the
admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage
(every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may
eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and
peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone."
Now be a good girl (or boy) and send e-mail instead.
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