Cell Phones and Crying Babies

I often wonder about people.

What makes them so self-serving? Only interested in their own comfort? Completely oblivious to everyone else in their vicinity. People are ignorant, rude little particles constantly rubbing against one another. And like friction causes potassium chlorate to ignite, it also causes sparks with people.

Take this computer room at the public library where I sit now for example. In the half hour I've been in this room, 3 cell phones have gone off; 2 were answered without discretion or worry that their selfish noise would disturb everyone else. A baby is crying and whining behind me and has been for the last 20 minutes. The mother keeps verbally "shushing" the baby but has made no attempt to abandon her MySpace "buddies" to take her kid outside.

I won't mention the ethnicities of these typical (and stereotypical jerks) because I have long ago abandoned my National Socialist neo-Nazi views and replaced them with more productive ones. Well...at least nicer ones anyway.

Here's an experiment you selfish people can try at home; an exercise in empathy:

Do your taxes near a construction site or a daycare center and try not to get irritated at the noise.

Why, you ask?

Because then you'll know how it feels when you didn't turn your phone off in the library or take time away from your valuable cyber sex time to shut your spoiled kid up.

Tighten up, people.