Bluetooth and Empire

[sawyl]

The other night, I spent a unsuccessful quarter of an hour attempting to describe the bizarre phenomenon whereby the middle aged — and it does, almost exclusively, seem to be the middle aged — attempt to use bluetooth headsets to turn themselves into some sort cheap version of Lobot from Empire.

It was somewhat futile because I'd forgotten that Christian was a devotee of the wireless headset, I'd completely underestimated his lack of knowledge of Star Wars and I'd also managed to forgot Lobot's name. I think my side of the conversation went something like this:

Do you remember that guy in Star Wars? The bald guy. The one with the thing around the thing. Around the back of his head. Yeah, that silver thing around the back of his head. I can't remember his name but he was like Lando Calrissian's right hand man. He was Lando's go–to guy for stuff. How can you not remember him. He was cool. What? Oh, the film? Empire. That's right. He worked on the gas mining station on Bespin. That was Empire, right? I think so. Well, it's like all the people with wireless headsets are trying to turn themselves into that guy. All you have to do is think of a person with a bluetooth set and you've pretty much got that guy. Specially if their bald. More so if they're male.

I'm still not quite sure how I failed to get my point across...