Monday, September 05, 2005

Toothless

The other day I was in someone's waiting room , er… waiting to go in for a meeting and this guy walks in. he was one of those prissy who seem to merit an exclamation mark after every sentence; a “look at me! I’ve got an important job!” type of bloke. He was on a call when he walked in, and he had his little bluetooth hands free thingammajig connected to his phone. But get this; he was holding it up to his mouth with one hand and holding his phone in the other hand and I just couldn’t see WHY he had to use both hands to use his phone when without the contraption he could have made do with one. The whole thing actually makes one wonder about the concept of “hands free” because if you have to hold it up to speak into it, you might as well stick to using your phone in the normal way. On the other hand, if people would just restrict its use for its original purpose, i.e. when you need your hand free to do other things, then it wouldn’t be a problem. But one thing I’ve noticed in this zany ole isle we call home, people like to show off their flashy techno bits. and you can't do that when you're alone in the car can you now? As puddy-tat says, it must’ve been a blue tooth no hands free device.

Epiphanous rambling

I went for a bit of a walk this morning. The silly cat wakes me up at 5.30 on the dot anyway, demanding food, so I thought might as well and...