Distractions!

Today, we have so many distractions, its hard to pay attention anymore. It saddens me to see the number of people with what they call "Adult Attention Deficit Disorder". WTH is that? Is that when you have so much fucking stuff going on in your world that you can't pay attention to one thing for very long?

Sometimes it really pisses me off when, say I am talking to someone and their cell phone rings or they get a text and they just stop you from your thought with" hold that thought for a minute", then just walk away and answer the damn cell or text...HOLD THAT THOUGHT? or u fucking shitting me? I don't want to hold the damn thought. If I wanted to hold the thought, I wouldn't have started it in the first place. Understood..

So when people do me like that, I don't finish the conversation...you come back after a 30 second phone call and want me to repeat everything I just said, because you forgot what WE was talking about... hahahaha..yeah right...I just walk away..literally.

 I feel like if what I was saying was not important enough for you to listen the first time, why the hell would I want to repeat it again so you can ignore it a second time... NOPE!!! Yeah Distractions.. I have a major beef with them..Don't get me wrong.. I have the cell (ha smart) phone, and laptop.. I can text with the best of them, although not as fast as I saw in the verizon commercial.. that dude was texting his ass off. But hey.. I got it.. people need to communicate. What I take exception to is when people just outright ignore each other right in yo damn face because they phone rang. I think there is nothing ruder than answering yo damn cell phone while someone is trying to have a damn conversation with you.

When I am out with friends, I put my phone on silent, because I am out. If I wanted to hear your bullshit about what yo dude did last night, I would have stayed home. Everyone knows not to call me with bullshit.. I won't answer. Leave me a fucking message and if what you have to say is important I'll call you back. If it's bullshit, I might just delete the damn message, and talk to you when I talk to you.

I've gotten really good at deleting stuff. Unless it's life and death, don't call me with the bullshit.. I HAVE ENOUGH OF MY OWN. I DON'T NEED YOURS.....GOT IT?

So with the advent of the latest technology, people's attention spans have gotten shorter and shorter. No longer can we sit still for a 30second commercial, we must change the channel and "watch" something else for that 30seconds. having a meaningful conversation with someone is out the damn door. No. conversation must include at least one person on the phone , who you are talking to, 2 people that you are texting with and at least one person on yo damn laptop that you are skyping with.. yeah that's it. we need all this stimulation to keep us going. No wonder we are so fucking fat.. WOW! where the hell did that come from?

Remember when you was a kid, and you didn't have a cell phone, so you actually went to your bff's house to talk or play..Does anyone do that anymore? I think not. thus the reason when you go to the park on any given day, you wont see any kids at all. The parks are populated by homeless people now. You subject to walk right in the middle of somebody's home thinking you just got a prime location under a really big shade tree, only to look up and see somebody's pants hanging there drying..

WHERE ARE THE KIDS?  At home.. we training them to be lazy little bastards..don't text and drive, dont walk and text, don't do anything else but text,and ignore anything else that is going on around you except that damn phone.

Situational reality is really lacking. Most don't have a clue of whats going on around them until someone tells them. Cause they was texting or talking on the damn cell phone.

I remember being at the mall one day. Sitting in the food court, eating some Panda Express..I see this guy sitting at a table next to a young lady that is texting on her phone and laughing out loud about whatever was being said, the guy just watches the girl for about a minute, cause that's about how long his attention span was.. but when he was sure the girl was not paying any attention at all, he lifted her whole damn purse from right by her side and went through it. Now, I'm sitting there eating my chinese food and thinking, is this one of them reality TV shows where they try to see what people would do in certain situations? I just watch the whole situation play out.. then the guy replaces the unsuspecting girl's purse and walks away.. SHE NOTICES NOTHING!! TEXTING on her phone....., I finish my chinese food and walk away myself. Later at the Macy's ,I see her in the store talking to someone and again not paying any attention to surroundings at all. Until she goes to pay for the items in her hand and wuala...she has no wallet.. GONE in like 15 seconds or less. HMMMM, do I say something.? Ponder...Ponder...Ponder... naw.. I just walk away, my cell is ringing anyhow, with someone whose call I am not going to answer.

Message says" Hello, you have finally reached me,however I am not answering my phone because I knew that it was you. If you have not texted, emailed, IM'd, minged, facebooked, myspaced, or skyped me lately or follow me on twitter, I don't know who you are...soooooo, hit me on one of my various e-mail accounts and let me know who you are or you can just leave a message and I'll get back to you eventually.." 

 T aka L