But We Will Always Have Oblivions

White Ninja is oblivious to the dangers of sitting on a bench in the middle of the road By Handsome Doug (England)

Mike Straka over at FoxNews shares his grrr pain of the Oblivions...

So what's new? I have always thought of the Oblivions as God's heavenly sandpaper to smooth out my character (although I do tell God "I have all the character I can stand!")

Oblivions are people who are so oblivious to their surroundings, they commit daily acts of rude behavior without ever even conceiving of their own repugnancy. They simply don't know any better.

For example, coming back East from a trip to Los Angeles this past the weekend, I was treated to a father, a son and a daughter who boarded the rental car shuttle for the Midwest Air terminal.

While the kids slung their bags over their shoulders and nearly broke the nose of the person behind them - without acknowledging the gaffe, mind you - the father was busy balancing a sausage McMuffin and a cup of coffee in one hand and his cell phone in the other, all the while carrying on a conversation that was apparently hilarious, because he laughed heartily and loudly the whole ride.

When we came to the Midwest terminal, the family never got up, despite two announcements from the driver. Finally, after the driver walked up to them to ask them if they were getting off, they all sprang up from their seats, awakened out of their Oblivion trance.

The son stepped on the toes of an elderly woman who yelped in pain. He never apologized.

The daughter said "Duh," so at least she acknowledged her brother's Oblivionism, but the father - now he was a study in Oblivionism - never got off the phone as the kids got their own bags and wreaked their own havoc. He continued to wolf down his breakfast while - get this - the driver unloaded his bags for him. Dad never said thank you.

Needless to say, when the doors closed and we proceeded on our route to the next terminal, the entire shuttle bus released a huge sigh of relief.

That my friends, is a true Oblivion encounter.