Phone addiction

[Marklr]

Is that the new thing apple have brought out?

It's good...they have a wire that goes from the telephone and internet people, right to my house.

 

[kaz7]

I'm an FOC with a LANDLINE. I still don't own a mobile phone. Don't want one.
I must have been the only person on the planet that never got the memo saying everybody now needs a phone to live.

I feel better about myself now, lol

 

[aguero93:20]

It's good...they have a wire that goes from the telephone and internet people, right to my house.

Sounds messy

 

[Marklr]

Sounds messy

Nah, it's a tidy line:)

 

[Wheelsy]

I wonder if people would still think this if I carried a book, notepad, walkman, camera, camcorder, and newspaper around with me as separate items?

Yeah but you're not carrying around a newspaper that constantly updates every ten seconds and you spend up to 6 hours a day flicking the pages across

I feel sorry for kids growing up in this era, just being manipulated into spending as much time as possible starting at a screen

 

[kashmir]

If I see some idiot texting and looking at phone and expecting me to move out of the way I just walk into them,it great watching there face as the prized possession hits the floor

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

I knew of him. Just one of those old bastards who hates everything and everyone.

It’s part of the reason I choose pubs very carefully. Too many are full to the brim of divorced men with no mates.

Is that why you were there?

 

[MCFC Wirral]

Is that why you were there?

I’m not divorced.

 

[Ohrodneyrodney]

I wonder if people would still think this if I carried a book, notepad, walkman, camera, camcorder, and newspaper around with me as separate items?

Probably, if the first thing you did every day was to pick up notepad/newspaper/camera and spend 90% of your day using them and hardly interacting with your fellow human beings.

 

[Bill Walker]

Yeah but you're not carrying around a newspaper that constantly updates every ten seconds and you spend up to 6 hours a day flicking the pages across

I feel sorry for kids growing up in this era, just being manipulated into spending as much time as possible starting at a screen

We were in McDonalds the other day and a young mother came in with 2 toddlers, she got the happy meals and coffee for her, sat down and got her phone out, for the next hour she just stared at her phone, the kids were eating then wandering around bored, she seemed completely oblivious to them or what they were doing, obviously more interested in whatever she was reading.
See this a lot, like in kids playgrounds when I take my grandson. Feel like shouting "watch your kids & show interest in what they're doing"
Times have indeed changed.

Get on the tram, I'm a FOC...sometimes I feel like I'm the only one looking out the window.