“A friend asked me out to lunch.
He kept answering his cell phone. It was text messages.
I walked out and waited in the car.”
Amazing to watch people in eating establishments anymore. Three or four at a table eating and no conversations between any of them because they are on their phones. Talk about becoming insulated. Was in an airport bar recently and was sitting at the bar along with thirty or so others. Not one single person was talking to another customer. Every single one except me was on their phones. Never been to a bar that was dead queit except for the piped in music.
The other day I was doing some shopping, and there was a man pushing a cart, with his little daughter in tow. He was talking on his cell phone. About twenty minutes later, I passed them again. He was still yapping, and the little girl looked forlorn. He could have been enjoying the time with his kid, but he couldn’t put down that infernal phone.
One of my favorite things is, when trying to get past someone who’s yapping on a phone and they don’t hear your “excuse me”, say it again——this time loudly enough to make them jump out of their skin.