Yes, this is going to be another "slam cell phone addicts" kind of post, so skip it if you want.
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I'm driving down the hill above the capitol, wanted to get pictures of the Key Bank from up there before they imploded it. I'm going maybe 30 MPH when this woman in a Volvo SUV decides she wants to go 40. Rides my rear bumper until I almost come to a stop, and then she tries to pass me. On a residential street. Well, her asinine driving aside, the whole time she was behind me she was, of course, yakking away on her cell phone. As much as I hate cell phones and driving, that's not even the point of this post - the point is that what looked like her daughter was sitting in the passenger seat right next to her, that we are getting altogether too comfortable talking to someone across the valley through a little box rather than the warm, living, breathing person right next to us. Ever seen 3 people at a restaurant, all of them on cell phones? 2 people in a car or a group in the park? I have. This woman may very well have had something important to tell someone, something that couldn't have waited. How sad, though, if she let her daughter sit there in silence as she chatted with her friend about last weekend? Or even been talking to her office about something that could have waited 15 minutes?
I firmly believe that no matter how "connected" we claim to be with e-mail, cell phones and even blogs like this, that NOTHING compares to sitting down next to someone and chatting face to face. And we, as a society, are willfully giving that up.
Pathetic.
A letter to the Editor today read “In order to get legitimate sources of unbiased and truthful media reporting, [Sandy] needs to quit reading, viewing and listening to the ultra-liberal lamestream media…”
Ok, I can go with that. A single source of news, ultra-anything, isn’t likely to give you the whole truth. It was the second half of this paragraph long single sentence that made me laugh, cry and pray for it to be sarcasm.
“…and start tuning in the legitimate sources of unbiased and truthful media reporting, for example, Fox News (hahahaha) in all it’s permutations, Rush Limbaugh (mwahahaha) and his acolytes and Matt Drudge (don’t know him) and his acolytes.”
