Bluetooth headsets

Let’s be clear from the start, I DO own one of these. I use it in the car every day. But what’s with these people that wear them almost all the time? Do you have extra short arms that don’t reach your ears or something? They walk round all day long looking as though they’re talking to themselves whilst at the same time sending out no signals to the rest of us that they are on the phone. Have you ever approached someone that is on a Bluetooth headset? The first thing they try and do is send you some kind of subliminal signal that they are on the phone. You can spot this by the strange, almost pleading look in their eyes. If their powers of telekinesis have somehow temporarily deserted them (no shock there then) they will next try and point at the device hanging from their ear. Yes, thank you, I’m not blind. I can see that you have something clipped to the side of your head. Finally, as a last resort they make the universally recognized hand signal for a phone (thumb and little finger extended) and hold it to their ear. Oh, so you can reach your ear. THEN WHY NOT USE YOUR HANDS???
It’s indicative of modern life that we are so lazy we won’t even lift our hands to our ears. This started to creep into our lives when that button was introduced to close the lift doors. Could you really not spare the additional 3 seconds it would have taken the lift to do it for you?

We need to slow life down a little.

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