Phoning while doing something else

There is a program on TV called The Jeremy Kyle Show in which losers go on and describe in detail while their life is so dysfunctional.  They are usually people on benefits ie they do not work, they are always ugly and badly dressed, and, they describe their children as beautiful when they are not.  

These people are happy to go into details about their personal and sex life, in which they engage in loosely, as they have nothing else to do and are happy to be seen as feckless as a character in those ‘Beer Street and Gin Lane’  prints by William Hogarth. Basically they are attention seeking doleacrat dropouts.

Obviously when they go home after making Jeremy Kyle another bumper pay packet they see themselves as celebrities and not as clowns which they are. They are also the sort of people who will walk down the street while talking on their mobile phone.

These people will talk on the phone while they are shopping, going on the train, parking their car, or even eating their dinner. No matter how banal their phone call is they will hold the phone to their ear as if it is the most important thing they must do. The fact that their conversation is at the loudest it can be is not an issue their life is that important everyone must hear their conversation and you must wait until they have completed their call, which never happens.

Why do these people do this is not clear? I have therefore come to an conclusion that these dunces need to feel important and therefore letting people see them talking loud on the phone inflates their ego as they are now the centre of their immediate universe. They would be happy to tell you about their life as it is so dynamic and uplifting, but, while Jeremy Kyle take his time to respond to their text message or phone call they will practice their tales using their mobile on the train or in McDonalds. 

The Jeremy Kyle Show – Is My Mum Trying to Murder Me?

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