Comments on: Lacking spectacle

By: McGehee

McGehee — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:16:31 +0000

I’ll avoid those things until they nano them so I can carry on a conversation over one without having to speak out loud.

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:18:18 +0000

Actually, it might be somewhat spectacular that you’ve resisted the BORG (the Bluetooth headset). I hate those things with a passion. I have three reasons:

1. As the xkcd comic recently used as a topic, I’ve gotten “fooled” into thinking someone was actually talking to me, when they were talking to their Invisible Friend.

2. Nearly getting bodily run over in the grocery store (or, more egregiously, in an antiques shop) by some Trophy Wife who is complaining to her BFF about her rich husband, and therefore fails to see the rest of humanity in front of her.

3. You can’t tell who the dangerous crazies are any more. It used to be “Talking to themselves” meant “You’d best avoid that person;” now, it is just as likely to mean they are selling short or telling their spouses which brand of spaghetti sauce to buy. And I’m unwilling to get close enough to a talking-to-themself type to check for the earpiece. Because there’s still a slight chance they might be one of the ones whose cell phone isn’t connected to anything, so to speak.

By: CGHill

CGHill — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:41:47 +0000

And if you carry a cell phone, it’s on there somewhere.

Still, as Chicago once asked, does anybody really know what time it is?

By: sya

sya — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:09:25 +0000

I also own two wristwatches (the cheapo kinds that go bad after a year or two). But earlier this year, I’ve decided to stop wearing a watch altogether. And it’s been kind of liberating. I mean, if I really wanted to know the time, there are clocks everywhere else. And bar that, I could ask someone.