We both have busy lives and it takes some planning to be able to get together to catch up. So when we do end up sitting in front of one another, can you please put your god-damned phone away? It’s one thing if you are texting your husband about picking something up at the store or checking in on your kids. That I get. By why the hell are you scrolling through Twitter when we are trying to have a conversation? Do you honestly think that I believe you’re listening when you are staying at your screen and giving absent-minded generic commentary like “yeah” and “okay”? Have some respect or I am O-U-T!! —Real Life is in Front of You!!
This article appears in Dec 8-14, 2016.
Try fucking someone WITHOUT a husband and children?
Height of fucking rudeness. I’d have no hesitation in telling someone that they’re wasting my time by eyefucking a cell phone.
It is the real life version of the walking dead. smart phones turn people into zombies.
Smart phones. The new crack. Effin’ phone junkies.
Do what I do, stand up and walk away.
I just stop talking and look at them, and wait. They either get the point and put the phone down or I eventually leave, and I tell them why.
Go to the bathroom….at your place…wonder how long they’d sit there.
I realized this is not going to change when I heard a teenage girl say she’d rather text boyfriend then speak on the phone.
That genie is not going back in the bottle…
I don’t care if other people want to waste six or seven hours a day on their phones – but FFS I wish they would not stand in doorways, block store aisles and walk down busy sidewalks with their stupid faces glued to their goddamn phones.