Selfies, particlaurly selfies taken by effing tourists in front of famous paintings (despite signs saying they are not allowed). Spent a few days in Paris last week and was constantly jostled out of the way by mostly oriental tourists with their selfie sticks taking pictures of themselves in front of Monets, Van Goghs, Reniors etc. Sadly none of the aforementioned seemed to want to take a selfie in front of of The Origins Of The World by Corbyn, which would have been more appropriate!
Signs all over Disneyland saying Selfie Sticks are banned, people still bloody using them though and then getting angry when the ācastā tell them offā¦
Try walking anywhere in the Philippines without somebody with a selfiestick shoving it in the air. Its nigh on impossible.
Even sat in traffic on the motorway a window will open, a plastic walking stick with a mobile attached to the end of it will appear, then the other windows roll down and heads all start grinning at nothing, click and lets start moving the traffic behind can just wait.
Be warned, as time goes by the phone calls develop into quick trips to doctors, opticians, Sainsburys, hospitals etc- average duration of each trip, four hours.
I have no problem with it really - but if you have a parent or two, your future is taxi driving.
Mind you, Iāve got a free low mileage āolds mobileā for the kids to drive (well, only #1 has passed her test) now that the folks have given up driving.
Itās been polished and maintained to within an inch of itās life and is therefore embarrassing to the 17 yr oldsā¦
to be fair it does smell a bit of Wetherās Originalsā¦
