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Gadget Gaffes

Among the most profoundly enjoyable devices of our time are headsets, particularly that allow seamless music anywhere we wish, anytime we wish. When it comes to wireless headsetsdigital telephones, cordless phones top consumer votes. And there are a number of ways we employ and carry these gadgets.

This is, of course, where the problem resides. There are those of us who, throughout all this time of continued and persistent tech advancements in various areas of human endeavor, have remained largely unaware of the right and wrong ways by which to wear a considerable lot of these consumer electronics products. Take for one the example of people who you see wear that bluetooth headsets while in the bus, while going down the elevator, while at the back of the church just as the Sunday sermon is winding to a close. It’s one thing to listen to the isolating effect of one’s Bluetooth headset while in the safe and private confines of one’s cubicle, office space or home. And it is quite another thing—an entirely different thing—when one employs such gadgets in the midst of the populace to the extent that one is disturbing the greater majority.

Such instances too include that one time or two when one was confronted with an individual who practiced an enviable lack of embarrassment over a conversation by carrying it at the top of his or her lungs. That’s all right if one is at home and not when one is in the aisle of a train, or in line to the grocery paying station waiting to be billed.

If we think that these individuals are only few and far between, the proliferation of such encounters proves to us that the opposite is true.

They are turning legion.

This individuals who constantly engage in gadget gaffes must be stopped. One way to do it is to educate them on the rules pertaining to these matters which are plain easy. One must moderate one’s voice when on the phone in a public place or better yet, to avoid the conversation until one can find a private location where one is not liable to disturb any body. And two, one must wear one’s Bluetooth headsets at home, in the car or at home but not in the malls or in any of the more public places, unless ones wishes to invite comments on his or her appearance and taste.

Easy enough tips to follow for those who do not relish sporting a look that’s largely—spectacularly– wrong. Technology is cool. One must wear it as one should.