Culture Coarsening for Late Adopters
Walking up a street. There is a woman walking toward me. She is talking on her hands free cell phone — the conversation on her end goes something like:
“Saturday, right? 2? No? How about 3? All right, good.”
As she walks into a building, another person approaches, walking by, says something — vitriolic, though hard to say if you can call it cowardly or aware of some manners —
“Quit talking to yourself, you fucking loon.”
Now. I have two issues with this. One — I don’t understand — this person is not keeping up with new technological advances that have become common-place in the last decade? Two — assuming that she is talking to herself — what is the point?
Third thought: it occurs to me, now that I think about it, that by talking past the person supposedly “talking to herself”, the person who was really talking to himself was the one taking offense at the idea — meaning he was a Self-Loathing Talking-to-himself person.