The end is neigh...

Hello Dear Readers,

Riding the bus can be a pretty interesting thing, you see all kinds of people with all kinds of ideas about what is appropriate behaviour in public and what isn't.

There is talk here about putting cell phone signal on the underground. Now for those of you (I am mainly talking to you in the US) that aren't familiar with public transportation, one of the most annoying things is someone speaking loudly into their phone. Overheard in the past month by me alone was a woman who for 20 min kept picking up her phone, yelling "I'm not talking to you, I'm not talking to you, I'm hanging up, I'm hanging up" Hang up. Repeat. A woman with a very strong speech impediment seemingly deliberately choosing to use words she couldn't say properly and the person on the other line couldn't understand, so that she kept saying them over and over, louder and louder, spitting as she spoke. And there was the time I got on the bus and at the next stop a woman got up, turned to the woman behind her and said "If you don't want to hear people talking on their phones then you need to get a car or take a taxi cab because this is public space" and walking off. Apparently she had been loud on her phone and the other woman asked her to tone it down and she offended by that.

My question is, in all the interviews where they ask people their opinions about cell signal on the tube, everyone says they don't want to hear other people talking on their phones, but where are all these people that we hear talking? How come they are never interviewed? I suppose it's only other people's conversations we don't want to hear, not our own.

Finally, yesterday while getting off the bus, I saw a baby in a stroller. The baby was lying down, so she couldn't have been older than a year, but she was holding in her two hands her mommy's iPhone, and watching a movie. I would not have been surprised to see her flick through the YouTube selections with her chubby finger after her video was over......