Using Your Cell Phone While Chewing Gum

"...how could you
have the audacity to runinto me whileI am talking on the phone?...."

.......[c]2005 by Richard L Zorek......12.21.05.....Some people can't walk and chew gum at the same time. Or so I have heard. I have not surveyed those who were walking improperly to ask if they were chewing gum or not. I will leave that to the experts (who can get a government grant to look into it). I've hit on the issue of drivers with cell phones before. And I emphasis on "issue," as I have not ever actually hit a driver with a cell phone, though they make themselves such easy targets.

How about the cell phone user who isn't driving? Well, they are fine usually. But then there's the one who walks in front of you as you walk down the aisle at Walmart looking for falling prices. They suddenly stop in front of you or slow down and you bump into them. You realize they are on the phone and they just give you a look of disgust, while they keep talking. How could you have the audacity to run into me while I am talking on the phone? Or so they are thinking. Then there's the one in front of you in the line at the Quik Trip. It's bad enough that the one in front of him can't decide which lottery tickets to buy, but now when this guy gets up to the counter he has to try and hear the cashier, reach for his money, and keep the conversation going with his girlfriend all at the same time. And, by the way, none of us want to hear the conversation with the girlfriend. But rather than hang up, he has to impress us with his phone technique (or maybe with just that he has a girl friend) and slow us down while we wait for him to get done so we can get in and out of the convenience store quickly.

There are, of course, other situations. People with cell phones in theaters or church meetings or for that matter any kind of meeting where the phone user feels we might be interest in hearing his conversation on a cell phone. But, in case you didn't know it: we are not. So, learn how to use it properly and safely around others. Safely? Yes, because someone is going to take that cell phone and shove it where the sun don't shine of you don't exercise a little courtesy. Can you hear me now??