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Originally Posted by cfrizz
Unless you're blind it is quite obvious what I am doing, no need to interrupt me to ask!
I've been out in public and someone will ask me if I know how to get someplace, and I will give them an answer. which is just fine.
At other times back when I had my Sony reader, I'm minding my own business reading and listening to my music just to have some person tap me on the shoulder to ask me if that's a Kindle, I tell them no it's a Sony, and they proceed to think that opens the floodgates to endless babbling.
I respectfully answered their question, now respectfully let me get back to my book.
Now that I use a phone, that very seldom happens now.
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I have no problem with any of that. Please don't misunderstand me. My main beef is your (and several other's) notion that privacy (RE being spoken to) in public places/situations is somehow something that people are "entitled" to. There is no such entitlement.
I'm fine with people
wanting to be left alone in public (though I don't understand the extremes to which some people go to try and achieve it). And I'm fine with people doing whatever they can to try and BE left alone in public (though again, I'm not a huge proponent of windmill-tilting). I just don't believe that people are
entitled (by edict, law, religion, or social code) to any level of success at achieving that goal.
Human interaction (embraced, tolerated, or otherwise) is simply one of the costs associated with leaving the privacy of our own personal domains.