Stephen and I were out on a “date” a few weeks ago, and sat at a table next to a short, balding man with a paunch and a nice-looking middle-aged lady looking very, very bored. The reason for her boredom? The gentleman seated next to her was wearing a Bluetooth headset.

I am not a fan.

It’s lovely that they leave your hands free. Don’t get me wrong. It’s great to be able to drive with both hands while wrapping up a conversation. I use a headset at work myself, when I’m making three or four straight hours of calls to clients. Otherwise I’d have to take a chiropractor on retainer for my neck and back.

But gentlemen, wearing these headsets out in public? All the time? You look stupid. I mean, absolutely goofy. And if you are so important that you can’t have a normal cell phone in your pocket or hooked to your belt, what are you doing taking your wife/girlfriend/sister out to dinner? Shouldn’t you just sit by yourself, bluetooth at the ready, waiting for your next call?

I don’t know that the man and the woman spoke two words to each other the whole time they were seated next to us. But I do know that he only spent about a quarter of the time on the phone. The rest of the time he just sat there, bizarre bug-looking thing attached to his head.

Who comes up with this shit?

Unimpressed,
michelle

p.s. I have been looking at cars lately (as we’re expanding beyond a normal sized vehicle shortly) and have seen a frightening trend - a DVD player/screen on the dashboard. Just what American drivers need. Now they can not only yap on the phone while they are driving, but they can also watch a movie. We’ll all be dead soon.