Independant Anj and the plight of the crippled

Why does everyone wear those damn ear buds when talking on their cell phones now? EXCEPT, of course for the morons on the road.
I think its ostentatious, obnoxious, lazy and makes you look like an asshole. Does it REALLY take THAT much effort to hold the damn phone? Or better still, call someone back? If your hands are too busy to grasp a phone, dont you think whatever it is that they are doing might possibly require your full and undivided attention?

I stopped making notice of people that appear to be talking to themselves long ago. I just assume they are all talking on their earbuds and go on my merry way, without thought. That is, until today.....

Today I had a multitude of errands to run and some time to actually DO them. So I set about 'handlin' ma bidnasssss'. However running errands is made ever-more-interesting when attempted with one leg.
I swear.
Seriously.
You should try it.

First stop? The bank.
This is what I have ascertained, thus far:


Number One:
Short chicks driving big trucks with casts up to their knees, reaching through an open door for the little tube-y thing-ama-poop and deposit slips? Comical AS WELL AS irritating to the people behind you.
All the more reason to take your time, I say.
Next stop? Sprint. To pay my phone.

Number Tahoo:
EMTs are jackasses that will let a door slam onto your casted leg while they enter a Sprint store. Thats right. All of them. Each and everyone of them. Assholes. How do I know? Because I ran across two today that did this very thing. Therefore, it MUST apply to the masses. Of this I am certain.
Third stop? Second bank to deposit the monies from the first bank trip into a different account.
And for the smartass thinking I'm retarded for even doing all this in the first place. Yeah, I know about online banking dillweed, but I am having problems with my account and THUS the reason I walked INSIDE the second bank.
- walked
+ hobbled.

Which of course brings me to the reason for this little gem of a rant:

"ACKNOWLEDGE PEOPLE WHEN THEY SPEAK TO YOU!! ...Bitch."

o_o

Oooooh, he ISNT wearing an earbud.


Let's back it up some, shall we??

This is how it went...
Im hobbling along on my crutches and quite painfully, I might add. Handlin ma bidness when all of a sudden I realize there is some whack job walking beside me mumbling something-or-other, ever so loudly. I ignore it and hobble up to the door where I proceed to do the clumsy "open-the-door-stick-one-crutch-in-while-hobbling-on-the-other" dance. I make it THROUGH the door and THAT is when it happened.....

"ACKNOWLEDGE PEOPLE WHEN THEY SPEAK TO YOU!! ...Bitch."


Apparently all that mumbling was actually directed at ME and the guy was supposedly trying to get my attention to let me know that he had foot surgery and was understanding of my plight as a newly crippled person and wanted to be a kind soul and hold the door open for me.

oops.

Instead I ignored EVERYTHING he said (because I THOUGHT he was on his damn phone) and hobbled right past to get the door for myself. So....I did the only thing one could do in this situation.
I blinked quietly in his general direction as he explained and when he turned around to storm off and I came to the realization of what had just happened.....

I stuck my tongue out at the back of his head.








Thats right.


Cause thats how I roll.

>_<




*flexes*