Re: Cell phone idiots revisited


"Dee Randall" <deedovey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:122k9af4e7jdrbe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"KevinS" <Kevintsheehyesq@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1143606895.134218.294250@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Dave Smith wrote on 3/28/2006:
Don't think they are dangerous for drivers? How about
pedestrians? I had someone walk into me today while she was yakking on
her cell phone. I was walking around a corner. She was
walking around the same corner and in the same direction and
walked right into me.

The same thing happened to me a few months ago-- but::::
She wasn't on the cell phone. She was behind me and walked right into me.
Big time. With her cart!
My point: some people are unconscious no matter what they do.

In the library the other day there were 3 kids, one mother. They were
running the aisles, very loud. The mother was loudly saying, all these
'things' you say to kids nowadays. Time out, etc. I try to avoid bodily
contact; one really has to be alert not to get walked or run into these
days. I've noticed in New England the people will run right into you full
frontal if you don't quickly step aside. They are in such a HURRY! Some
people get disgusted with older people's slow walking, but it's all not
age -- there's more to it than that. But many younger people haven't a
clue.
Dee Dee


Take heart - your post got me thinking about it - and I think they do get
the worst kind of payback - a taste of their own medicine when their game
backfires.

I'm 6'3 and 225 and am fortunate to have very little gut, with proper
posture my mother (and my DI) required. The "pushers" can be damn funny when
they try their "push" on a big male.

In background, I think big males tend to get cut-ins, etc., a lot, by old
ladies, people crossing lines, etc. I suppose they are betting we feel less
threatened than those smaller and thus we are more tolerant of such things.
We learn not to move suddenly or erratically in crowds, "lest women faint
and children cry". Big males learn to allow their space to develop, as it
were, and look ahead in crowds.
E.g., shopping at the mall in Christmas crowds with my son and daughter
(21 and 26, 6'3 220lbs and 5'11 150lbs resp, both athletes.) is a unique
experience - its funny, since we see the tops of the crowd's heads. And not
from our efforts or our posturing in any way, the crowds part like the Red
Sea before three blonds - even what passes for gang bangers now, ease over.

What's so funny about a face-to-face is that when a collison is being
arranged by someone (and you can see it coming a mile away) , I don't have
to do anything but keep walking until they are too close for them (they
would have stopped sooner in their little game of chicken, but I take that
away by being one step too close for THEM), and then stop. No posturing,
nothing. Just a fairly expressionless "yes" look.

The look on their faces when they get close and find out their neck is
too far back in order to look me in the face and their move didn't work, and
they are too close to face me down and I am not moving back ... and they
also realize where they are standing with their pushing habit and I didn't
do what I was supposed to do for them to win.
You can see the realization, even the erratic males; they get that "oh
s___" look in their eyes when they try to look up and are at their neck's
limit; not reading me properly, they have to assume I am of their mindset
and will do to them as they do to others. And they mumble an apology and
step to the side.
When they very rarely say, "watch where you're going", it's always behind
my back, facing the other way.

Ah, well - it's humanity... they're just counting coup....

enough musing.... back to amusing.








.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: OT Cell phone safety (was Re: Servers Strike Back -- Cell Phone Usage
    ... Some people can't even manage to walk and talk on the cell phone. ... confess to not being good in crowds. ... I was walking around in a big city ...
    (rec.food.cooking)
  • Re: cell etiquette
    ... I've been told that Texting is very addicting. ... they will call somebody walking between classes, ... I personally don't like cell phone. ...
    (rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz)
  • Re: cell phone for 11 year old
    ... walking from your house? ... The theater is 40 minutes by car from my house! ... stuff and not be so overprotective like my mom was with me. ... As with the cell phone, I agree with Barbara that I will eventually let them ...
    (misc.kids)
  • Re: Cell phone idiots revisited
    ... I was walking around a corner. ... It's not just drivers and pedestrians... ... he was just yakking on his cell phone. ...
    (rec.food.cooking)
  • Re: Cell phone idiots revisited
    ... her cell phone. ... I was walking around a corner. ... A higher calling, perhaps, but do roaming or additional ... Does the Lord charge extra ...
    (rec.food.cooking)