You crazy, you!
It was kind of an unusual evening because I normally am not the one in my family to go grocery shopping. But on this day I was shopping at PCC and was looking for weekday-life-saving-items in the frozen section. And this old American female starts talking, still looking towards the frozen racks, “I love Indian food. I have never tried Kashi’s Black Bean Mango…do you think I should try it?” Now it so happens that I have tasted this Kashi frozen delicacy and it actually is one of my favorites. I was almost about to respond to her remark when she started talking again, “Oh, but Amy’s Tamale Verde sounds great too….” She went on and on about the kind of frozen food she likes and her wonderment about what she should buy.
I was kind of confused because she wasn’t waiting for me to respond to any of her questions or wonderment. And since there was no one else in that aisle, it was kind of getting awkward. Next I know she started saying “so how are your daughters doing….”, at which point I realized that she was talking to the invisible wireless Bluetooth device hidden under her long curly locks, and not to me. What a relief.
But seriously. People talking on their wireless Bluetooth headset is one of the creepiest outcomes of technology. I just see a bunch of people talking to themselves and deem them to be crazy people…until 50 seconds later when I realize they are actually talking to real people on the other side of their Bluetooth.