One thing I like to do is count the number of people talking on cellphones
when I'm at the market. My record is 15. What REALLY ****es me off are the
ones talking away while trying to write a check. I won't even ask the
question about writing a check in this day and age. ;-)

--Mike

"RCE" wrote in message
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"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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Actually, it was posted kinda tongue in cheek. The cargo wasn't all
that heavy (so no issue with the Plimsoll lines), but it sure hung
over the sides all over the place... and was likely the cause of
grazing the dredge.


Nothing to do with this thread or boating, but the above reminded me of a
hilarious scene I witnessed this morning at the supermarket.

A women was pushing her cart up an isle while chatting away on her cell
phone. In her cart was a broom with a wide but stubby head ... like a
small garage pushbroom. She had wedged it in the cart handle first, so
the head was sticking up in the air and at an angle away from the cart.

As she approached where I was, still yakking away, she drifted too far
over to the right and the head of the broom started taking down the first
row of catsup and spaghetti sauce bottles on an upper shelf display. She
had no clue what was going on behind her as about 20-30 glass bottles
crashed and smashed on the floor. She just kept trucking along, talking
away. I raised my hand and told her to "Stop" and she just gave me a deer
in the headlights look, didn't miss a step or a word to whomever she was
talking to and exited the isle, never looking back and apparently unaware
of her path of destruction.

Eisboch