Waiting for a Sale

@Amir: Oh man, don't get me started. I'd like to go somewhere for just a few minutes without having to deal with someone that has a cell phone glued to their ear. I find it especially annoying in movie theaters where phone addicts have to light up their cell phones every few minutes for God knows what. Last week some woman and her husband were both on their phones throughout the movie I went to see with my son. In this case I at least couldn't hear them, but their annoying phone displays were like flashlights in the darkened theater. These calls were all so "important" they had to answer them during the movie, but not so important that they had to leave.

You can't drive for more than 60 seconds without encountering someone driving erratically with a phone glued to their ear. And then there are all these people who, what, think we're impressed by their idiotic phone conversations in the grocery store, book store, or video store --or simply have no consideration for anyone else? In my youth I never realized how many important people there are, with important conversations that can't stand the 30 minute wait for the drive home. Of course, I'm being sarcastic: I have never heard a single one of these usually loud conversations imposed on me that is about anything of consequence, and few, for that matter, that have anything remotely to do with their presence in the store --like asking what video to rent or what widget to buy.

I recently came across some woman who drove her car into a drainage ditch while she talked on her cell phone. I've been behind people in a check-out line who expect everyone else to wait while they chat away instead of paying their bill. Recently, I was behind someone who pulled out her phone and called her husband for a consultation about something she'd just bought, AFTER the cashier had rung up her purchase and we were all waiting for her to pay and move on.

At least the woman in the photo is in her own place of business, waiting for a customer.