Set methods

Something that occurs to me regularly is how some people are completely set in their ways.

It's one thing to reach for a cupboard that doesn't have the cereal in anymore (because it's been put in another cupboard, it's too early to remember these things, and yes this is happening to me regularly every morning at the moment), but it's another thing to ritualistically shout into your phone as though:

• Your phone doesn't speak English
• It doesn't occur that the phone doesn't understand a specific language, rather waves.
• Your phone's microphone doesn't work properly.
• Your caller's receiver doesn't work properly.
• Your caller is deaf as the proverbial post.

Older people have an excuse, and I understand that it develops with age and that as short-term memory deteriorates, people forget that they're not supposed to be doing things.

Younger people who insist on sharing their one-sided conversation with others on a bus or a train for example have absolutely no excuse.

Here endeth the rage.