Steve’s Heartburn for the Day: “The Bluetooth Ambush”

You ever accidentally connect your phone to the wrong Bluetooth device in public?

I was sitting in a parking lot this week and suddenly my phone connects to something called:

“JENNIFER’S TOYOTA.”

I don’t know Jennifer.

Now I’m panicking because my podcast starts auto-playing through somebody else’s car speakers while this poor woman’s probably just trying to live her life.

And why do phones connect with the confidence of a Labrador retriever?

No verification.
No warning.
Just:

“GOOD NEWS, WE FOUND A STRANGER.”

Meanwhile I’m smashing buttons trying to disconnect before Jennifer hears me halfway through an 80s rock documentary talking about why Van Halen almost broke up in 1984.

Technology was supposed to make life easier.
Instead it’s turning random parking lots into accidental public broadcasts.

Somewhere out there Jennifer now knows way too much about 1980s rock documentaries.

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