People with bad cell phone etiquette in public are so annoying.
I was in the grocery store, in the produce department, and a young lady on her phone was blocking everywhere I wanted to be.
Every carrot.
Every apple.
Every bag of lettuce.
She was everywhere.
And she was in the way.
I finally gave up and decided to do the rest of my shopping.
I’ll come back to produce later, I thought.
Apparently, she had the same idea.
She followed me.
Still talking.
Still loud.
Still completely oblivious.
She was a textbook example of terrible cell phone etiquette .
And then…she crashed into me.
It was a full-on T-bone collision.
Cart to cart.
I wasn’t hurt.
But she didn’t know that.
She immediately dropped her phone and started apologizing like she’d just caused a five-car pileup.
And yes, I leaned into it.
I appeared faintly stunned.
Slightly fragile.
I gave a great possibly-injured-old-lady routine.
It worked beautifully.
She felt awful.
Thank goodness it was a shopping cart and not a car.
Maybe now she’ll think twice about cell phone etiquette in public.
Although… I doubt it.
Still, for one brief moment in the grocery store, cell phone etiquette made a comeback.
Liz Brenner
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