Obsessively Oblivious

The random tangent of the moment asks an absurd question: Do now or have you ever known someone who (for all intents and purposes) seems to be obsessively oblivious?

Breakdown: We all have moments of relatively clueless. I'm pretty sure it's a homo sapien thing because, well, we're NOT computers. Our organic brains do not (as a rule) categorize and file every bit of information and recall it in a nanosecond. I'm talking about people who seem relatively normal except for one (or maybe even a few) seemingly glaring gaps in their ability to interact with society.

A Hypothetical Case In Point: The person who helps themseves to the last cup of coffee in a shared pot, repeatedly leaving a few milliliters in the bottom of the pot, but never seeming to get it that the appropriate reaction to that is to make more coffee. For this instance we shall assume that the individual has been kindly and repeatedly asked to remedy the empty pot.. heck they've even been shown by some kindhearted (and possible caffeine free) patient people just HOW to do so. Yet they do not.

Oblivious, Lazy or just a Jerk? I don't know.

Is it that I simply have a different way viewing things? I had a lady look me square in the eye as we arrived at the same time at the ONE open checkout lane in the grocery store. SHE had a loaded cart, I was carrying ONE item. Yet she hustled her way in front of me.

Had our positions been reversed, I would have stopped, smiled slightly, gestured for her to go ahead and said "You go ahead, since you only have one item".

Am I too nice? Was she a bitch? Or was she just so mired in her own little universe that she was oblivious to an opportunity to garner some cosmic Karma?

A friend and I were chatting about such things just last week. We decided we have simply been born in the wrong era. Unfortunately the cost of hopping a time machine and going back a few centuries is seriously uncomfortable clothing, a loss of any measurable rights for women, and of course NO INTERNET ACCESS.

Until next time.. I ask.. take a moment. Stop. Look. Listen in public situations. Can you make someones' day brighter by doing something simple and kind? There may be more free floating Karma in your reach than you think!