JJB’s Ramblings

Say I put you in a four sided booth that was 6 feet tall (think phone booth, but wider) and each wall was 3 feet of brushed aluminum (from the bottom) and the remaining 3 feet comprised of glass. There is also glass over the top of this imaginary booth so you can look up and watch the birds, or planes passing overhead. Next, using a dolly, I roll you on over to, oh, i dont know, say…Government Center. I leave you with some food and fiji water, a mirror, your cell phone and I even rig up some speakers inside your booth so that you can plug in the iPod I gave you for this experiment. neat huh? I tell you that all you have to do is hang out in this cushy booth for a few hours, eating, drinking and being merry. Not the worst thing to do on a wonderful weekend afternoon in a hustling bustling city, right? During your time in the box of awesomeness, you probably people watch, make yourself comfy, eat, talk with friends on your cell phone, etc etc.

I am willing to bet that at no time do you do the following:

- check for gray hairs
- pick your nose
- give that emerging zit on your chin a good hard squeeze
- absent mindedly use your index finger to clean your ears
- try and snag that one nose hair that thats protruding from your right nostril
- sing along to R.E.M’s - End of the World, (with great gusto) while trying to keep up with Michael Stipe’s rapid lyrics, only to lose yourself 16 words into the first verse, but coming back with a vengence at the chorus
- have a totally animated conversation with a friend on your phone; complete with sailor-type explicatives, hand gestures and maybe an inappropriate comment involving a horse.

Why not? Because people can see and hear you! You are in a public place, why the hell would you expose yourself to that.

my point? If you can’t do it in a glass and aluminum box in the middle of a high traffic, public place, then you probably shouldn’t be doing it in your car. I am watching you.

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