Walkie Talkie
Note to pedestrians on cell phones: If you are having a loud conversation on your cell phone and you stop and lean against somebody's fence -- a fence six feet from that person's little wooden cottage -- chances are, your conversation will become the soundtrack to their life.
Unless you are the next coming of Christopher Hitchens, and I'm guessing you aren't, this will probably be unwelcome.
Hint: It's a mobile phone.
Houses are...less mobile...except in outrageously strong winds.
I miss Hitch. I'd have loved to have read what he had to say about Obama's Fast & Furious scandal.
Robert at July 26, 2012 11:49 PM
I could write 27 best sellers based on the conversations to which I have been inadvertently privy from my first floor apartment - where the shady tree outside my window & great cell reception provide the perfect conditions for accidental oversharing!
Ronnie at July 27, 2012 9:21 AM
Too bad you can't have a directional mike and a loudspeaker outside your place. Turn that on as they talk so everyone in the neighborhood could here them speak.
Jim P. at July 27, 2012 10:50 PM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/07/27/walkie_talkie.html#comment-3287383">comment from Jim P.Two assholes were actually just making like animals and peeing on my fence. Unfortunately, I whipped out my huge flashlight and my iPhone, but I didn't get out there fast enough to catch them on camera (from my side of the fence, of course, standing up on an inner fence support -- not going out and confronting strangers at night). I did snarl over the fence, "What kind of women raised you that you go to the bathroom like animals on other people's property?"
Amy Alkon
at July 28, 2012 12:07 AM
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