Awful lot of stupidity when it comes to cell phones. Hard to find a driver not on one, folks walking anywhere without there face buried in one, going out to eat and folks around tables with their heads down in the damn things or talking loud as hell on them.
Cell phones are freeing us from the prison that is direct communication.
My wife and I were in Branson last week, and we stopped to eat at a fifties-style restaurant. We began talking and remarking that so far we hadn't seen anyone playing with their smart phones. In walked a mother who looked to be in her mid to late forties and her two teen daughters.
Not only did the teens immediately whip out their smart phones upon sitting in their booth and start the hocus pocus, their mother did the same thing. So my wife and I, who were sitting directly across from them, started laughing (which we tried to stifle.) Which did not disturb the enraptured trio across from us one bit.
What is so captivating about a smart phone that people must fiddle with it constantly?
Isn’t that the truth? We’ve had people hit by the light rail system, because they stepped in front of a train, not paying any attention. I work on a college campus. It’s a target rich environment! There are times when classes let out that you cannot get down certain hallways due to kids aimlessly wandering toward their next class, heads down, eyes glued to their phones, oblivious to the fact there are others around them, or that they’re blocking the flow of traffic.