Cemetery
by Jeff
Image text: Three headstones down, I got a call from my mom and it went from bad to worse.
The character in the comic is talking on his hands free headset to the person on the other end of the phone call and everyone else in the comic thinks he is speaking directly to the dead person. It appears the family to the right is gasping and the female is covering the child's eyes.
The talk of font makes it seem like the person on the phone is making a comment on the font on the gravestone. Or an alternate interpretation is that the person on the phone is saying that the dead person died because they did not listen and used another font besides sans-serif.
Additionally, another place that is bad to use your hands-free headset? Anywhere. Those things are annoying.
May 5th, 2010
My son talks to himself a lot. People make fun of him for it. For his birthday I bought him a bluetooth headset (no phone, just the headset) and on the card I said, “Instant respect.”
He loves it. People think he’s on the phone, rather than thinking he’s nuts.
May 6th, 2010
Additionally, another place that is bad to use your hands-free headset? Anywhere. Those things are annoying.
Yes, please don’t ever use a handsfree headset, especially while driving a car and chatting on the phone. ‘Cuz fiddling with your phone while driving is so much less annoying.
Honestly, I don’t understand why you would be bothered by anyone using a headset in any circumstance any more than you would be for them talking on the phone without one in that same situation. Don’t like one? Don’t bloody well use one then. I personally prefer to have people, myself included, with both hands and eyes free and head held up while they are on the phone in a public place rather than having them running around with a phone in hand, perhaps occasionally balancing the phone on their elbow, obviously paying a great deal more attention to the device they are handling than to their surroundings. But that’s just me, I guess.
May 7th, 2010
Aside from the annoyance from people wandering around yammering, with those gizmos on their ears they look like they have been assimilated into the Borg Collective.
May 27th, 2010
> Aside from the annoyance from people wandering around yammering
Is it worse or better if the people are yammering on the phone or with a person present? Why?
> they look like they have been assimilated into the Borg Collective.
Some people may not think this is a bad thing…
May 7th, 2010
Frost: Recent research indicates you are just as distracted when talking on a hands free headset as when talking on a handheld headset.
Everyone: My opinion of people who sit in restaurants, buses, and other public places chatting animatedly on their phone (handheld or not) is that they are self-centered and arrogant. . . despite the fact that my logical brain knows my opinion is probably wrong.
And before you fire off any advice to me about my phone. . . I refuse to own one. . . because of the above paragraph.
May 24th, 2010
I thought the implication of what the onlookers would be thinking was that the phone-talker had *murdered* the person in the grave and is saying that he hadn’t wanted to do so but was forced to by that person’s going against his instructions with the font for something.
May 26th, 2010
airports and public bathrooms are the worst.
“hey! how are ya?”
“i’m doing well, how are you”
*strange look
“dammit”