[911? Yes, I'm about to get tentacled by Cthulhu. Yes, its an emergency.]As much as I love my cell phone and its many functions, there are two things that really get on my nerves.
The first: Getting stuck in a car ride with someone talking on the phone.
If you've ever been in this situation you know how awkward this is. Since my mother is apparently a cell phone-popularity queen, I'm all too familiar with the aggravation of sitting in a long car ride with her talking on the phone the entire way. It doesn't help that all the people that call her only speak in Chinese.
Car rides, whether you are the driver or the rider, can get extremely boring. Unless both of you strike up a decent conversation or turn on the radio, the ride can go from extremely boring to excruciatingly awkward.
When the other person gets a phone call, and that call takes up the entirety of the car ride, the awkward-ness is heightened times twenty. Not only are you un-purposefully eavesdropping on half of a conversation (which never really makes much sense), you can't really ignore them by listening to the radio because you have to turn the radio low or off in order to be polite. You are now stuck in a situation where you cannot talk about anything, cannot listen to anything that makes sense, and must now just lazily stare out the window and hope that the boredom doesn't put you into a vegetative state.
When that phone call happens to be in a different language, its even worse; because then, for all you know, they could be talking about YOU.
The second: Bluetooth.
Okay, don't get me wrong. Bluetooth is genius. You are able to use both hands, while having lengthy conversations with your cousins in New York. It makes talking on the already uber convenient cell phone even more uber convenient.
The problem with Bluetooth is, whether you're the user or someone who happens to look at someone using the Bluetooth, you're going to seem ridiculous.
Why?
If you are using Bluetooth, its rather difficult for others to see that there is a tiny earpiece on your ear (that might be hidden under your hair/a hat), so then you just look like a crazy person talking to yourself.
If you're around someone using a Bluetooth, its really easy to initially think that the person might be talking to you. I can't count how many times I've actually said "hello", or "what?" to a person using Bluetooth around me. After each account though, I stumbled around a few "sorry"s and got extremely red in the face. It's incredibly awkward.
The moral of the story?
Don't get stuck on your Bluetooth with me in the car or I'll sic Cthulhu on you.
The first: Getting stuck in a car ride with someone talking on the phone.
If you've ever been in this situation you know how awkward this is. Since my mother is apparently a cell phone-popularity queen, I'm all too familiar with the aggravation of sitting in a long car ride with her talking on the phone the entire way. It doesn't help that all the people that call her only speak in Chinese.
Car rides, whether you are the driver or the rider, can get extremely boring. Unless both of you strike up a decent conversation or turn on the radio, the ride can go from extremely boring to excruciatingly awkward.
When the other person gets a phone call, and that call takes up the entirety of the car ride, the awkward-ness is heightened times twenty. Not only are you un-purposefully eavesdropping on half of a conversation (which never really makes much sense), you can't really ignore them by listening to the radio because you have to turn the radio low or off in order to be polite. You are now stuck in a situation where you cannot talk about anything, cannot listen to anything that makes sense, and must now just lazily stare out the window and hope that the boredom doesn't put you into a vegetative state.
When that phone call happens to be in a different language, its even worse; because then, for all you know, they could be talking about YOU.
The second: Bluetooth.
Okay, don't get me wrong. Bluetooth is genius. You are able to use both hands, while having lengthy conversations with your cousins in New York. It makes talking on the already uber convenient cell phone even more uber convenient.
The problem with Bluetooth is, whether you're the user or someone who happens to look at someone using the Bluetooth, you're going to seem ridiculous.
Why?
If you are using Bluetooth, its rather difficult for others to see that there is a tiny earpiece on your ear (that might be hidden under your hair/a hat), so then you just look like a crazy person talking to yourself.
If you're around someone using a Bluetooth, its really easy to initially think that the person might be talking to you. I can't count how many times I've actually said "hello", or "what?" to a person using Bluetooth around me. After each account though, I stumbled around a few "sorry"s and got extremely red in the face. It's incredibly awkward.
The moral of the story?
Don't get stuck on your Bluetooth with me in the car or I'll sic Cthulhu on you.
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