Hang Up And... Walk?

There's a new species of critter out there. Perhaps you've run into a member of the species? They power walk everywhere with this strange beeping device glued to their ear, oblivious to the world around them. This device apparently renders them blind, deaf, and mute, as they are incapable of seeing anything else around them, hearing the protestations of those that they push out of their way, or apologizing for behavior that would make Attila the Hun blush.

Look, I get it. You're so ruttin' important that the office can't survive your absence even for your family vacation to DisneyWorld. Without you, the entire company is brought to its knees, a pathetic shell of its former, vibrant, dynamic self just languishing for your return. If you don't keep in constant contact with the mouthbreathers you left behind, the entire company will go bankrupt and fold, the critical items you make for the world will go unmade, and little Jimmy will die because he didn't get that crucial medical widget in time.

However, you brush my son out of the way again, and you'll have all the time in the world to direct operations via phone from your hospital bed as they work to rebuild your spinal cord.

That is all.

(There is simply no truth to the matter than the VIP in question was told, at a volume that would drown out jetliners, that he'd better hang up his effing phone before it got shoved so far up his @$$ his belly button would ring. Actually, it would vibrate...)