Lately, it seems that wherever I go, I see some teen or nearly-teen standing around with a phone hanging on her ear, especially in a store or the mall. Or, it's a soccer Mom bringing her child to school and can't stop talking on the cell phone long enough to tell her child good-bye. I saw a child walk away the other day, downcast because Mom shushed him when he was trying to tell her something. She was just way too busy to listen to him -- just wanted to get rid of him. I'll give her the benefit of the doubt; perhaps her phone call was very, very important. (Ten minutes later I saw her walk out of the school, still talking--laughing her way to her car.) Sheesh.
And then there's the SUV/cellphone thing. It seems whenever I'm stuck behind some SUV that is lugging along about 7 mph under the speed limit in the inside lane and I'm late to teach my 3040 class, it's someone blithely chatting away, oblivious to the problem being created. Notice I stayed judiciously away from mentioning the sex of the person attached to the phone? At first, my sexist, chauvinist ego thought it was females; however, the more I look... but that's another rave for another day.
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