The amount of people taking selfies or just sitting on their phones while inbetween sets these days is crazy, sometimes the rest between sets is like 5 mins or more. Zero intensity or effort involved.
I curse the day those goddamned phones became a "thing."
We aren't Borg. There's no need for this constant level of interconnectivity. It's mindless and is doing serious harm to our collective IQ (if you'll permit me the inadvertent pun). Everywhere I go, parents give these fucking phones to little kids; they're constantly distracted with the things, watching stupid videos and all the while, barrelling through stores and public places with no regard for their surroundings and totally lacking any semblance of situational awareness.
This seems especially prevalent among certain minority groups. For example, I got behind on some bills, so for a time this year, I worked at a GoodWill store as a "material donation handler."
In brief, I was one of those jokers who received donations at our little drive-through. I took those inside, sorted them according to certain criteria, assessed the donations' value (over 75% of donations were garbage and went straight to our trash compactor), then rolled the passable wares out to the sales floor.
I mentioned minority groups? Psh. At my location, 5% of customers were white, and they were almost always pleasant. 10% were black, and again, most of them were cool. Asians and Muslims were exceedingly rare but unfailingly polite.
The rest were Mexicans and other Latinos. I was shocked at how pushy they were every time I rolled out a fresh bushel of product; in no time flat, a dozen of them would swarm me and want to know what treasures El Gringo had for them.
A great many pretended to not speak English, so I would tell them in broken Spanish, "Let me put these things up; then, you can buy."
In the meantime, their kids are demolishing the toy aisle, sitting on the filthy floor playing with toys strewn everywhere, y sus papas y sus mamas are either playing on their own phones or trying to sniff out a deal on some chickenshit junk they don't even need.
One other thing: I know some of us are cannabis fans here on Getbig, and that's great
However, I think even an outright stoner would say that little kids shouldn't be exposed to it, nay?
I had a family of Mexicans come in...mom and dad, an uncle and five kids, the oldest of which was maybe 11-years-old.
ALL of them reeked of marijuana. I first smelled it on their youngest, who was six at best!
That is NOT cool. But with some of these crazy people, it's little different than the cell phone thing. These ignorant motherfuckers are dumbing down their kids, and it's up to us to get things back on track.
