The wise don’t make a show of their knowledge,I was listening to a woman in our apartment complex the other day talking on her phone on the front porch. She was loud and obnoxious and was having a rather profane disagreement with the person to whom she was talking.
but fools broadcast their foolishness. (Proverbs 12:21-23)
Someone said somewhere not long ago (how’s that for documentation) that in the old days it was nice out in public because fools kept their thoughts to themselves.
Nowadays, that is not the case. You can go anywhere, no matter how pleasant the situation would be otherwise and hear a fool blabbing their brains out loudly.
I do not like cell phones and at present don’t even have one. I am going to have to get one because Ella might need me (her disability makes her fall a lot) but I really do not want to. I have never really liked talking on the phone that much anyway and then to have to pay a lot of money to do it as seldom as I do irks me.
But the one thing about them I hate the most is fools blabbing in public. And it seems there is no way to make them realize that they are obnoxious. In fact, if you are looking at someone who is on the phone, chances are they will gripe at you for interrupting a private conversation. “Excuse me! I’m on the phone here!”
Yes you are, and thirty other people are on your side of the conversation.
It amazes me at the lack of brains in people in the world anyway, but that amazement has been compounded by the availability of cell phones. Nothing is private anymore. Nothing is personal. Nothing is quiet.
I remember when jamboxes got popular and someone would take their music to the beach or park or somewhere. Now earphones have become somewhat universal and cell phones are the ones you hate to hear.
Oh, well. A curmudgeon standing athwart progress shouting Shut-Up!
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