Blueyouth

Now I've mentioned my lack of patience with stupidity in the past but today I'd like to talk about the perfect storm, stupidity and rudeness in equal measure. The epitome of this is the obsession with cell phones in public and in particular those ridiculous Star Trek looking widgets that are popular amongst the criminally dimwitted. Just because you look like some geek at a trekkie convention doesn't mean you've actually been transported to another dimension, WE CAN STILL SEE YOU! and more importantly hear you, your inane babble is of no interest to me or anyone else save perhaps your equally dimwitted partner in crime.

I had the misfortune this last weekend to come across just such a scene in my local home improvement store. Behind me in the line for the register a lady was yammering long and loud about absolutely nothing in particular. When I say loud I mean you could hear every word from twenty feet away, lady it's a phone, they were invented specifically so you didn't need to shout. I don't know why but I find it intensely irritating, maybe because there's no escape and I'm too polite to say anything and she's too stupid and rude to realize that there's a problem here.

We finally left and moaned about the stupid cow all the way to the car, we were convinced that her ignorant burbling probably continued throughout the transaction at the register which I find particularly galling. Picture this, your grandmother is buying her groceries, she gets to the register and completely ignores the teller, deciding instead to talk non-stop to her friend, it wouldn't happen, so why is it happening now?

My wife and I decided to grab a little lunch while we were out and popped into the restaurant over the road, 5 minutes later in comes rentagob, still yacking on the @#$%ing phone! Fills her take out box to the point of groaning collapse and completely ignores the teller again!

I just don't get it, where did this section of society come from? It wasn't always like this, this is not a learned behavior, your parents were perfectly civil. Now you're weighed down with cheap imitation gold, telling all the world your 'business'. You think you look like a rock star but you don't, you look like a fashion faux pas with a big mouth and a learning disability, your rims are worth more than your car and your car is worth more than your house. You have no pride, no future and no idea, pull your pants up, put the phone down and shut @#$% up.

Rant Over