I’m flying to San Diego today on business and of course it offers a great people watching experience. I connected through Atlanta which means I got to ride the train between terminals. The doors of the train began to close and a woman who had just gotten on and who was jabbering away on her phone realized thaty her teenage daughter wasn’t with her. She jumped in the door to prevent them from closing and to give her daughter a chance to get on. She assumed that the doors would just pop back open like elevator doors but they just kind of squished her. A man standing behind her stepped up and helped pull them open and let her daughter on. Here’s the deal; the woman never stopped talking on the phone except to yell at her daughter to hurry, not even to thank the man who helped her. She didn’t even nod. The rest of us just shook our heads and kind of smiled at each other.

Sadly this type of thing is just too common, but this incident doesn’t match my all-time favorite which was the guy in an O’Hare bathroom who was talked on his phone while using the urinal and walking out of the bathroom. Of course he didn’t wash his hands, not that he would normally, but he was far too busy talking to do it anyway.