:: If You're Not in the Car, Don't Talk with a Headset
What the hell is with all the people who walk around campus with their stupid Bluetooth headsets? I’ll be walking on Pollock, hear some guy behind me talking really, really loud, and I’ll turn around just to see some idiot talking to himself. And then I’ll see that little weirdo thing that clips onto his ear. I’m obviously not in a car. Neither is he. So then my question is this: Why the hell do you use your headset when you’re not driving?
I can maybe understand if you are carrying a lot of things and you don’t have an extra hand to hold the phone. Maybe. But these people I see aren’t ever holding thirty bags of groceries or reading a newspaper, or whatever it is that requires both hands. At best, they’ve got a coffee cup in the other hand. So seriously, why is it necessary to use the headset?
I mean, when I’m walking in New York and I see someone talking to himself, it’s nothing new. And that’s generally because they’re dressed in a disheveled pea coat, shoes with the soles falling off and hair that hasn’t been washed in over thirty days. AKA a homeless person. I can also understand the mentally ill speaking to themselves. However, these kids on campus aren’t exactly homeless or cases of split personality disorder.
I would like to meet someone whose life is too hectic for them to even hold a telephone. I would love it if someone came to me with a great reason for using their headset instead of taking the time and energy (if any is required at all) to hold the cell phone up to their ear while walking.
This Bluetooth bullshit just makes people look so stupid. Do they not realize they look like they’re talking to themselves? I mean, is it really that much of a difficulty to hold the phone up to your ear? Are people really that tired? It’s not like the phone weighs thirty pounds.
So, the moral of the story is, if you’re not driving, there is no reason you should ever use your Bluetooth headset while walking in public. I honestly think the only exception to this rule would be if you are Zack Morris and you have a phone the size and weight of a brick. Also, on another note, if you are Zack Morris, please email me immediately and make sure that Kelly chick is so far gone out of your life…
What the hell is with all the people who walk around campus with their stupid Bluetooth headsets? I’ll be walking on Pollock, hear some guy behind me talking really, really loud, and I’ll turn around just to see some idiot talking to himself. And then I’ll see that little weirdo thing that clips onto his ear. I’m obviously not in a car. Neither is he. So then my question is this: Why the hell do you use your headset when you’re not driving?
