Miscellaneous Monday
I have new pet-peeve that's really, really getting on my nerves — and vying for the Number One position in my list: people that use speaker phones when the dadgum handset is right in front of their face.
HOLY CRAP. There's a person down the hall from me at work, and for some reason, he calls people, then leans over the phone and talks to them via the speaker. WHY OH WHY?!? Why must everyone else in the office have to hear your conversation? PICK UP THE HANDSET!
That said, I don't mind speaker phones in cars as much because it really is safer to not be bothering with a cell phone while steering.
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Speaking of stupid things humans do, this is another one that takes the cake: smoking at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Are you people for real? So you walk out the Hospital's main entrance, you're surrounded with people hooked-up to CVCs or IVs, people hooked-up to oxygen, people in poor general health — and you light-up a cigarette right next to them?! That clicking you hear is God's finger tapping the Smite Button, you know. Thankfully, we're usually inside when one of these buffoons lights-up — but the second someone does while we're out there, there's going to be a "situation."
Humans will never cease to make me feel sorry for us.
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Ike-Stink won over our refrigerator, so we bought a new one. :shakes fist in frustration:
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I wonder when our church will replace the "B" we lost in the hurricane. We've been " razospointe" for a couple of weeks now.
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Jenny Lewis' new album isn't as good as I hoped it would be. She should have dropped about 4 songs and released an EP instead — then she should have come to my house and put on a concert for everyone in town.
Comments:
While it’s undoubtedly easier to steer while using a hands-free phone, studies have shown that attention is equally divided, making it no safer to use the speaker phone than to use a normal cell phone. Just a little interesting tidbit from the world of psychology!
And glad to see that things are getting a bit more back to normal.
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