Was talking to a buddy this afternoon. We don’t talk all that often but when we do we tend to catch up. Sometimes that takes a long time, usually when we’re talking I’m home and it’s not unusual for me to have a nice tumbler of Jack Daniels at hand.<\/p>\n
Today however, the conversation started while I was on the road and continued after I parked. The next thing I knew I’d walked around a Mall yacking like a lot of those people that irritate the hell<\/b> out of me.<\/p>\n
To all the people in the Mall today, I’m So SORRY<\/b>!<\/p>\n
I was browsing, shopping, and buying things.<\/p>\n
It was VERY RUDE<\/b> of me, to My Friend <\/b>and also to the OTHER <\/b>people around me at the mall.<\/p>\n
Another issue is that my situational awareness was zero! Someone could have gone all jihad and blown themselves up and I wouldn’t have seen it coming.<\/p>\n
In my defense, it was so natural to just keep walking and talking. My Friend and I have spent many happy hours shopping in that mall and it was like he was there.<\/p>\n
I found myself commenting on things I encountered just as if he was there. On the one hand it was nice to have a pseudo shopping event. ON the other hand it is a little creepy in retrospect.<\/p>\n
Point is, while I bitch about a lot of things, I’m going to do my level best to<\/p>\n
A) point out when I do the things I bitch about.<\/p>\n
B) try to see the other side of what I’m bitching about.<\/p>\n
It’ s unlikely in the future I’ll be giving anyone the stink eye about their walking and talking around the mall, but I maintain that your friends deserve your full attention<\/u>. Even if they are enjoying the virtual shopping trip.<\/p>\n
Humm, perhaps a streaming video \/ bluetooth headset or HUD that would allow you to share your adventures via your 4G cell phone. If someone makes something like that, You know you heard it here first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Was talking to a buddy this afternoon. We don’t talk all that often but when we do we tend to catch up. Sometimes that takes a long time, usually when we’re talking I’m home and it’s not unusual for me to have a nice tumbler of Jack Daniels at hand. Today however, the conversation started … <\/p>\n