I am seeing more and more people walking around with bluetooth headsets attached to their ears these days. Circa 2003, i had one myself and outside of some 'pairing' issues, it was damned convenient to just pop it on when the phone rang, push a button, talk, and remove it when the call completed.
Note the emphasis on the term 'remove it'.
You see, most, if not all of the people I'm seeing wearing them, are not 'actively using them'. So take the damned thing off! Do you really think that you're so special and important that, should the phone ring, the time it would take you to put on the earpiece would be a matter of life or death? Because if you are, then, uh, maybe you ought to have somebody else standing in line for coffee for you. Perhaps you have some bizarre desire and attachment to only hearing out of one ear and constantly cocking your head and saying 'huh?'. Or are you so completely insecure that your self esteem is directly related to how many people stare at you as you walk in with a flashing blue light sticking out of your ear? Perhaps you don't realize they're not staring out of envy, but for their own amusement.
Don't get me wrong, these are very cool and functional devices. But they're not jewelry, and they're not 'bling'. So please, for the good of our daily lives, put it away if you're not using it. And don't tell me you don't have anyplace else to put it. I have two word for you, words of comfort for the techo-toy-totting geek that you are... "Fanny Pack".
