By MIKE JONES Associate Editor on Sep 1, 2011, at 3:36 PM Updated on 9/01 at 3:36 PM
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I embrace technology. Up to a point.
I have a problem with Facebook – I don’t get it and seldom check my “page” because I usually am not interested in what some long-lost acquaintance is having for breakfast.
I have a computer and an i-phone. But I draw the line at certain forms of Blue Tooth. Where that line is, I’ll explain shortly. For the Luddites out there, Blue Tooth allows a person to talk on the phone hands-free.
I suppose that can come in handy. I have Blue Tooth in my car. I place my phone down and the computer automatically hooks it up, with some sort of magic the best I can figure. All incoming calls are routed through my audio speakers and there is a small microphone in the headliner into which I can speak. This makes driving while talking convenient and safer. I’m waiting for the technology that would allow the driver to choose either speaking or texting. Imagine how many accidents we could avoid if only we could speak into a mic and it would send the message out in text and any incoming text would be translated into speech.
But I’m getting away from the original subject.
My good friend and colleague, Bruce Plante – the editorial cartoonist here at the Tulsa World – wears a Blue Tooth device. He hooks it over his ear and can talk and draw at the same time. I also have seen him walk and chew gum at the same time.
I have walked into his office beginning to talk so many times that we now have a signal when he is on the phone. See, I can’t tell. He’s not holding a phone.
I can live with that. But, here’s what I don’t like about the ear jack. When people wear them, to me it’s like them telling me that they will talk to me but they are so important that if any call comes in, they will shush me and talk on the phone. How rude. How pretentious.
Now, Bruce is neither rude nor pretentious. He is a swell guy. And he often removes his ear jack when it’s not in use. He doesn’t mean to insult me. But c’mon. That’s why I never warmed up to call waiting. If I’m talking to you on the phone I’m not going to put you on hold to talk with someone else. When I’m finished talking with you, I’ll hang up. When people put me on call waiting, I hang up.
Keep your ear jack. I’ll admit that you are an important person. I’ll accept the fact that your conversation with me is only a way to pass time until another important person with an ear jack calls you.
Just don’t expect me to like it. And don’t call me on one, I’ll hang up.
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