I just want to ask — can you all please just get off your damn smartphones? They are rotting your brains — I am SO sick and tired of seeing people texting-while-driving (dangerous) and walking down the street like zombies gazing at the damn smartphones.
I don’t have a smartphone. I had one for awhile, then decided I didn’t want to pay a 100-plus dollars a month for something I had no interest in. I like a real screen to look at the Internets on, and I like a real mouse to use, not some touchscreen that always takes me to the wrong place if I manage to touch it accidentally.
I know this makes me sound like some old crank that should just up and die and get out of the way of the Skynet Brave New World, but really.
Sis and I went walking this fall, a beautiful fall day, in Silver Lake Park. It was gorgeous and we had a great time. Afterwards, we stopped in the Visitor’s Center there, where they have a little cafe, to get lunch.
Sitting at the best table, hogging the greatest view of the woods, was this COUPLE. They had earbuds and laptops open, and they were not looking at the great view or making eye contact with ANYBODY. They were TEXTING each other on smartphones across the table. That’s right, they were sitting right there across from each other at the table and f-ing TEXTING each other. GRRRRRR.
Earbuds, laptops, and smartphones. Kind of the Holy Trinity of tech addiction.
Please people (my coworkers especially, who spend all damn day on their phones instead of working) I am begging you — wake up and smell the Cloudfarts. Really. Take a walk. Read a book. Watch some TV. Play with your kitties/doggies/children. Get off the damn PHONES.
Sorry. Rant over. Sigh.