Plastic Thingy

I just got a new phone at work. On the call screen at the top they left on the flimsy plastic sheet to protect the screen. I appreciate that. I also took it off the first second I got it. I see the screen better without it and it looks nasty when you keep it on. However, I noticed a bunch of people just leave it on. I don't get that. Why leave it on? It looks hideous. Take it off damn it, take it off! Are you too busy to just peel it off? What's up with that?

Secret Speech

What's up with people who talk on their cell phones and hold their mouths over the phone while they talk? What are they trying to do, keep the conversation secret? If I can hear them or even read lips, will I know some amazing new fact and crush their soul at the same time? I refuse to believe that these people are talking about information that is so sensitive that they don't want other people to know what they are saying. Maybe it could be that they want to smell their own breath while they talk. "Hi hun, I wanted to call so that I could smell my own breath while on the phone to you. If you're wondering, I smell like cheese."
This is the opposite of people who are too loud on their phones in very public places. Either way, the person who covers their mouth and the person who speaks too loudly in public are total douche bags. They should be locked in a room with the asshole who talks on his ear piece and looks like he has tourettes. Then give them all only 1 bar of reception. The mouth coverer's game is up, the loud talker talks louder and loses his voice and the tourettes guy looks like a bigger idiot because he is now talking even louder to himself.

Real Townie

I've thought of myself as a real New Yorker for a while now. I grew up (threw up?) on Long Island and moved into the city 5 years ago. I think it became official the other day when I got stopped twice on the walk to work by people to ask me questions. That right, I walk to work in Manhattan.
The first stop was a woman on 57th Street asking me where the closest bus stop was across town. I told her it was between 6th and 7th instead of at the corner. She thanked me and I was off again. The second stop was next to 30 Rock where a woman who was with her 2 kids and husband asked me whether or not going to the top of 30 Rock was better than the Empire State Building. I told her it was because the lines were shorter, the price was cheaper, the view was better since you see Central Park and the Empire State building, and finally, the coolest part that the kids would love, once in the elevator the lights go off and the ceiling becomes transparent and you see yourself shoot all the way up. She thanked me as that sold them on it.
Yup, I was pretty proud of myself.