Except for that very last part, which was a bit OTT, that scenario is almost believable. A situation where people stand face to face, yet still think they need to communicate via Text and Email messages. We are not too far off from that, at least not with a small segment from Generation Z.
There is hope though. As the school year approaches, I’m hearing more and more about schools deciding that certain hours of the school day will be Phone Free. Some did it last year, and guess what? No riots, no maulings, no lawsuits for ‘psychic trauma’, so it can be done.
About 19 years ago, my then-16 year old son was in a car with a guy friend and two girl friends parked on the street in front of our house. It was a chilly night and I saw all the car windows were fogged up…and bathed in an eerie blue glow. I went out to investigate and found all four of them on their phones! Ugh.
I was at a bakery up in Middlebury, VT a few years ago, a major Leftist fever swamp, and a bunch of college kids were messaging each other while they were sitting next to each other...totally weird.