Hope everyone who is one had a lovely Mother's day yesterday. Mine was pleasant save for the incessant moodiness of my daughters (the 10 year old is ALREADY moody--SO unfair!). Elder son left Friday for the midwest, so I was given my gift from him (a DVD of a favorite movie featuring Sean Connery & Harrison Ford) on Friday. Yesterday we visited our younger son at his new home (an off-campus rental--he's not even 20 yet!) & I was given a lovely bouquet of flowers & a woeful tale of his frustrations with Wal-Mart, all having to do with his obtaining same. (My moral of the story: NEVER shop at Wally World. How hard is this?)
In the course of varied outings this weekend, which included a wedding,a swim meet, a trip to the gas station & the drug store, and a lunch date with the three younger children, I again experienced frustration with something I believe I've vented about before: cellular phone use etiquette (or, more precisely, the glaring lack thereof) in our far-too-busy society. Yet again, I was in (of all tasteless, awful places!) a public restroom stall when some fool answered their ringing cell phone. Does it not occur that perhaps doing so is in POOR taste (to say the very least)? Most ladies are present in such settings to complete bodily functions best left private; being violated by some idiot yammering on a cell phone while I'm attending to same is beyond reprehensible. Why don't you just podcast it to the entire establishment? No? Not crass enough for you? Then hang up the damn phone & have the decency to just NOT answer it while you're in a bathroom!
A friend has a greeting on her cell's voice mail that lists possible reasons why she's not answering personally, while leaving much to the imagination: "I'm either at work, asleep, driving, or otherwise unable to answer my phone." I think that'll find its way to my own phone, in light of how many meetings, court hearings, etc. I attend for work in the average month. It should really fall to the voice mails of those brainless idiots who think a public lavatory is THE place for a conversation!
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