The Nerve…
I just remembered that I came up with a “great” idea for a post tonight while Laura and I were eating supper. Ok, so maybe not really a great idea, but something to keep me in the blogging mode.
With technology like it is, there are not many people today without cellphones, save for the elderly, most infants, and just a select few individuals, nearly everyone, at least in America, has one. Or there is at least one in the immediate family. The fact that there are 1st graders with cellphones is best left for another blog, but in the meantime, the popularity of cellphones has lead to something that really annoys me: the bluetooth headset. (Before you get upset with me because you own one, please keep reading.)
There is definitely a place for headsets. Maybe a place and a circumstance. The place being while driving in a car, and the circumstance being a mother with young children. In both of these situations, attention must be given to other things that require the use of both hands, one being driving a car, and the other herding children while multitasking.
That being said, there are no other places, circumstances, exceptions, whatever to using a bluetooth headset. No exceptions.
We were having supper tonight at Henry’s, and I look over at a table of people, and a man has on a headset. Is this really the place to have one on? Are you really expecting a phone call so important that you must wear an unsightly beast of a contraption on your ear? Do you think that other patrons will automatically view you as more important because you have something sticking onto your ear that flashes a blue light every five seconds? Seriously people. Where has etiquette gone?
Maybe I am old fashioned, or slow to adopt, but surely I am not the only one that feels this way. Please tell me that these headsets grate on the nerves of someone out there. Surely someone gets the urge to rip them off of an ear and smash them under foot.
Leave it to me to make a mountain out of an ant hill….
Blake White said,
June 21, 2008 at 9:55 am
I couldn’t agree more. There has been more than one occasion where I had to hold back from telling a brother that he really doesn’t look as cool as he thinks he does.
Trae said,
June 21, 2008 at 10:38 am
Just be happy it wasn’t this bluetooth headset:
http://direct.motorola.com/ens/BTStereoHS_Web_ProductHome.asp
Slade said,
June 21, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Trae,
That headset has to be the most outrageous one ever. If I saw a guy wearing it, I would have to question his manhood.
Adam said,
June 23, 2008 at 9:37 am
True.
I bought one just to use when I’m driving, because the wife gets mad at me when I mess with my phone when I’m in traffic.
There’s a guy that I work with that ALWAYS has his headset on. When he’s in the office he has his bluetooth headset on one ear and a wired Plantronics headset for his Cisco phone on his other ear. Not cool at all.
It’s even worse when you see people in public places using them. I think they feel that they have to yell into it to be heard by the person on the other end.
Laura said,
June 23, 2008 at 2:01 pm
a few doctors at work wear them…i always think they are being friendly and actually asking me how i’m doing…nope…talking to person on the other end of the line. then i look like an idiot for talking back to them.
Heather said,
June 23, 2008 at 4:00 pm
I agree. People where them all the time for no reason. Their hands are absolutely free to hold a phone when someone calls. They have been useful when holding a baby though (you did mention this in your exceptions).
Erin said,
July 1, 2008 at 11:03 am
Oh my gosh. I can’t tell you how many times Chad and I have talked about this. Very funny.