Off with your head(set)!
I think I just found the funniest person ever. While perusing a recent San Francisco Chronicle I came across a regular featured called Two Cents where the newspaper asks a group of five readers a common question. Last Sunday the question was: "What personal behavior law has government not thought of--but should?"
Love it? Love it not?
Now if that's not a intriguing poser, I don't know what is. While most of the answers were relatively dull, two of them caught my eye. The first suggested banning excessively loud motorcycles (I don't like being woken up at 5 in the morning, either) but the second was my absolute favorite. Ryan Kelling of Walnut Creek, Calif., suggested, "Wearing a Bluetooth headset in public should be outlawed. We get it: You're so important that you might get a phone call that needs answering quicker than pulling the phone out of your pocket would allow." All I can say is, Ryan, please run for office.
Now let me be clear that I don't think the government has any business regulating Bluetooth headsets. But I think Ryan has a very good point. I know I'll get a lot of flak about this but I've always had a love-hate relationship with Bluetooth. On one hand, it's a fantastic technology with many useful applications (wireless file-sharing is a godsend) but on the other hand, wearing a Bluetooth headset when you're not on the phone is just annoying. I can see it when you're driving as it allows you to keep both hands on the wheel, but there's no reason for it when you're riding the bus, eating in a restaurant, or doing your grocery shopping. I don't care how important you think you are. Really, it's just annoying.
Stereo Bluetooth headsets for music players are another matter, however. That's because if you're wearing one of those, you're actually making use of the headset instead of just wearing it as an earring.
Remote Controlled Person (voice in headset):
"Now move five feet forward and reach for the 2% milk beep"
"Make 90 degree turn to the right beep"
"Walk 15 feet beep and turn 90 degree left beep"
"Walk down aisle 15 until you ...."
I got the job. He didn't!
Then there was that comment about using mobile belt clips, I personally don't like them and prefer to use my pockets, but if someone wants to use a clip, what's so weird about it?
Don't we have more burning issues to rant about?
I laugh at people walking around on the street talking on their headsets...they look like crazy people who are walking around talking to themselves!!! HAHAHAHA...
I don't know if these people think they are important, but to me, they look like they have no lives...
- Too Funny! I had no idea!
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by mssusanf
October 17, 2007 11:35 PM PDT
- When I finally got a phone that I could use a bluetooth headset with, I was so happy! I could stop wearing a darned WIRED headset all the time! During the course of many days, I get and make far more calls than most people would want to suffer through. These are primarily not social calls now mind you, however, sometimes a social call here and there is the only way I have any friends at all. Am I too busy? Well yeah, probably so. Is it because I am some high powered money grabbing executive? Heck no! It is probably at least in part BECAUSE I am not a high income person that makes me so busy all the time. It is amazing how much more time so many things cost when you are trying to save money on things. But I digress. What I wanted to mention is that I sat here laughing when reading most of these other posts. Not laughing at them, just laughing because I had NO IDEA people saw these headsets so negatively or as though someone was attempting some kind of status from them. I wear mine all the time for the following reasons: 1. I can find it. The phone may go places, (under the seat, in a wrong pocket, etc), but the headset is attached. 2. I can keep the ringer of the phone OFF and still know if there is a call coming in as it will ring ONLY in the headset. (It was especially funny reading these posts in light of this usage reason as it seems now that people will complain about cell phone ringer noise but this method of dealing with it is thus apparently also something to complain about.)3. I am far too old to be trying to look "cool" but as an old fart, yeah, I have to say, I think the little blinky glowing blue light is kinda pretty. Its like always having your sparkles on. (Okay, maybe one does have to be in the old fart catagory to get this one!) 4. Using the headset allows me to answer the phone much more easily. I can just tap the side of my head and call is answered - versus digging out phone, opening phone up, moving phone to ear area, hitting answer button. When you have a lot of calls going on daily, this little bit of effort saving can mean a LOT! and 5. It lets me answer a call and mutter quietly to the caller before moving to an appropriate phone call spot rather than having to have it be SO OBVIOUS; "Look! She's getting ON THE PHONE!" Anyways, its just been so funny seeing others viewing these headsets as annoying rather than a device potentially being used as a consideration device as I have viewed them.
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