Gramps gets in your face on the 47
I was sitting across from a young woman who was talking on the cell phone, most probably about some relationship woes. When I got on the bus her conversation sounded like it had been going on for some time (”Well there are some things that I haven’t discussed with him but we need to talk about it to see where he stands…”). All sounded ordinary enough.
She was talking away about her relationship when an old man got up to get off the bus. He walked right up to her, his face tight and clenched. “You will never be happy. You are too selfish and mean to ever be happy,” he said.
Then he got off the bus.
The young woman was embarrassed and said to her phone companion, “Yeah, some guy on the bus, sounded just like mom, huh?”
What can she expect? She was talking on the phone on the bus after all. If you make it public, the public has a right to intervene at any time.
Sometimes people are so easy to read, you just have to dictate to them the obviousness of their stupidity.
Strangely, most people still don’t really get the hint. But if she was yapping on the phone, somewhere inside that mind of hers, she enjoyed the attention.
I don’t know, though - while I get pretty annoyed at cell phone yappers and sometimes get tempted to just give them my two cents on their situations, I thought Gramps was a little mean, no? I guess I started feeling sorry for her when she said he reminded her of her mom!
People care more about people on cell phones in public places than they care about, well, lots of things. I guess I’m not that bothered by it. I never use my phone in public (or at all really–if I could sell my rollover minutes, I would). I enjoy eavesdropping on people’s conversations sometimes.
Now people talking or texting in a movie theater…