Wayne D's Blog

The weather is almost too nice to be cranky but I'm going to crank a little bit anyways. I have noticed a disturbing trend among people to be detached from their present physically reality. On Flickr's day of Flickr I went into the dollar store to buy some batteries for my digital camera. I got in line behind a woman who was talking on her cell phone. She paid for her purchase and left the store without ever making eye contact with the clerk. As I left the store I saw her going to her car still talking on the phone. I wished I had brought my camera because she passed another woman who was almost yelling in her phone and it would have made a great Day of Flickr photo. It illustrates how many people aren't mentally present where they are. That's why people are always talking on their cellphones in the cars. They really don't want to be there. The clerk in the dollar store was just another car on the road that had to be passed. It must be quite a dehumanizing experience to be serving someone in a store and they don't even look you in the eye. I prefer to engage with the people around me, I talk to store clerks. I ask the name of the wait staff at the bar.

An update on my inability to stream Global TV shows because they think I'm not in Canada. No response from Canada.com yet and it's still broken for me.