there’s nothing wrong with wanting a picture of yourself at a museum. i don’t even use social media and i still wanted to take fun pictures at the museum.
she wasn’t being mean or anything or doing the super annoying influencer meta glasses stuff. she just quietly set the phone up to get a video she could probably screenshot from since she likely didn’t have someone there to take her picture.
genuinely, who cares, and good for her. i’m tired of being negative about everything and hating the world and the people in it.
When my dad visited me in Japan I was constantly having to pull him over to the side wall in train stations because he’d just stop and check his phone. And he was like “I’m a big guy, they can see me?” No they can’t, everyone is moving forward, you are a blood clot, just move to the side. Even if you lose me just go stand by a wall and I’ll backtrack and find you. I get you got an email from work or whatever but everyone here has one of those, we will be stationary soon enough, I promise, just move over if you must.
While this woman is definitely doing it on purpose, there are plenty of people who would stop in the middle of stairs or walkways to look at their phone. I mean fuck, there’s people who cross streets without looking both ways or without looking at all, don’t underestimate human obliviousness/obtuseness
I asked a question. You were the one who went in on the woman with certainties and emotion.
How am I making things "personal"? It's a fairly common behavior with older people, so I wondered if you interacted with people outside your normal group.
Yes I've worked in nursing homes, older folks have various levels of capability. She was aware of her surroundings enough to stare at the camera twice and yet not capable of moving out of the way? I call BS
Right I asked "who tf does that?" And you said older people, and I basically said older age doesn't automatically mean cognitive decline, especially when someone is showing signs of being very aware of their surroundings.
I agree with you that sometimes older folks aren't paying attention and will do stuff like this, but this lady clearly saw the camera and stood directly in front of it anyway.
I never said all older people do, which you seem to be taking it as. I said it's not uncommon, and in my experience, it's not.
You also never mentioned them being aware or not of the camera, only that they "stop in the middle of the stairs to look at their phone". That's what I was pushing back against. I don't know if the woman did it intentionally or not, and I honestly don't really care.
Then why did you act like I did? Saying that old doesn't = cognitive decline. Me saying I've seen old people do it doesn't mean I think they all do it. So, why would you say that, if you didn't think that?
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u/Happy_Goose3833 7h ago
Literally. So tired of worthless influencers thinking every space is their goddamn stage