Why are we all so important?

[elmwood]

As the previous post indicates, I spent a mostly happy day in the Local History and Archives at Hamilton Public Library. I say mostly because I was flabbergasted by the breathtaking rudeness and lack of consideration of another patron

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[quiller77]

She lives with the common delusion that a bubble of silence lowers around her when she is on her cellphone and no one can hear her. I am puzzled why people think this, but there can be no other explanation for some people's cell phone behaviour.

[elmwood]

It was a good thing that I was at the end of my research day, otherwise my stereotypical British reserve would have deserted me and I would have had a major melt down.

It is weird how people on cell phones don't seem to realise they are broadcasting, in some cases, very personal information to the world at large.

In fact, the only time I have ever said anything was to a chap in a coffee shop who was yelling on his cell phone to what was obviously his lawyer about his divorce proceedings. In that instance, I tapped him on the shoulder and just suggested that he might not want the rest of the coffee shop to know the details of his wife's infidelities and his ones in repsonse. He blushed and went outside.

[quiller77]

I know that coffee shop incident shouldn't be funny, but ...

As for the woman in the library, maybe someone should have said something, though I think it should have been library staff.

We had an instance in San Francisco, on a bus where an obviously stoned guy was talking to his girlfriend(?) and begging her to forgive him. For at least 30 blocks. Given how unpredictable a stoned person can be, no one was about to interfere. It was painful, and annoying.