A ridiculous trend
With the advent of new technology, comes new trends, and sometimes a need for new guidelines and etiquette. As I was out shopping over the weekend, I noticed, much more than ever before, people talking on cell phones while shopping. Now this is not a problem, as long as the folks with appendages stuck to their ears keep walking. But it does become a problem when cellphoners have not yet mastered the art of multitasking, and instead of keeping up the pace, just “stall” multiple times in the middle of the shopping aisle! It also poses a problem when people gabbing on phones park themselves and their cart so as to block other shoppers from getting through the lane, and since they are gabbing away on a cellphone, they don’t notice others politely saying, “Excuse me. Can you move your cart and your body so I can get through?” Puleeeeze! Some of us shoppers are in a minor hurry, since my dear husband is at home watching all the children, so I can do my shopping more efficiently (without 15 minute bathroom breaks, drink breaks, and/or “can we go home yet?” breaks). And… I… would… like… to… get… home…. QUICKLY! to make sure no one has set the house on fire yet. I suppose it was just “bad luck” or God trying to teach me to be patient, I don’t know… or unbeknowst to me, was it National “Talk On Your Cellphone While At Target” Day?
