I hate to sound like Jerry Seinfeld (who I’m actually sick of now thanks to the incredible amount of overhyping for his stupid Bee Movie which I’ve heard isn’t even all that good — but I digress), but what’s the deal with interpersonal courtesy?  Seems like it’s just completely gone down the tubes.  I was walking through The Grove a couple of days ago and saw a guy walking with his girlfriend — they were holding hands and meandering down the road… except he was wearing an iPod, and I could hear the music blasting out of his earbuds.  Am I the only one who thinks that if you’re with someone, you should be paying attention to and interacting with them?  And last night at the gym, the hotbed of social lunacy, I again saw people just yelling into their phones, barely using the equipment because they were concentrating on talking and weren’t paying enough attention to move faster than 5 feet per hour on the treadmill or the elliptical and basically tying up the machine without actually getting any benefit from it while other people were waiting for it.  I tend to put a lot of faith in the belief that there’s a time and a place for everything, and I’m wondering if this kind of thing is happening specifically because of the place… er, city… or if it’s happening all over and I just need to get with the times and stop being curmudgeonly.