The first rule is if there is another human being in the room in which you are to be interacting with, you should put away your handheld device or excuse your self! This may need to extend to nature after a friend told me of her husband's obsesive posting of pictures from his iphone to Facebook on a recent family hike.
The second rule is if you are required to be at a social event (or any event) in which there are people, you should put your device away whether you are interacting or not. And furthermore, do not hole yourself away up in a room to access these devices for longer than a few minutes. This comes after our trip back east in which we told the boys that when we were in someones house, your job was to be social. We paid big bucks on airplane tickets for you to get to know a lot of these people, not have them watch you play video games.
And you can't play your game boy at the wedding.
At least not until Drunk Jason is done eating dinner and his moves on the dance floor
start turning a little too PG-13 for your innocent eyes.
start turning a little too PG-13 for your innocent eyes.
Lastly, please do not talk LOUD in the store while you are trying to figure out which birthday present to buy your nephew. I know he likes construction equipment and your BFF saw a great set at Fred Meyers, but it is not here now and no amount of talking in your outside voice is going make it magically reappear on the clearance shelf you are digging through.
Same goes for the person in McDonalds trying to talk over the noise at the playland the other night. We know you BFF doesn't eat meat and that you are craning your neck to see through the playland windows to read the menu to find something without meat for her and keep an eye (although not an ear) on your kiddos, but for the love of Pete, please stop.
And yes, we are so proud of you for staying within your Weight Watchers points by eating the salad with half the dressing instead of whole packet. Really. We know how hard that is to be on a diet. At least we do now that you told us and whoever it was on the phone with you.
Oh yeah no texting/dialing on the phone the in the car, yadda yadda yadda...I think Oprah has that one covered.
But really, do not talk so loud.
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Completely agree! Well said.
AMEN!
Oh now come on! Don't be such a fun sucker!
Me too. My husband does is constantly "checking" his phone and it drives me bananas. Then he'll get short with us when he's responding to someone and has to "think". LEAVE THE ROOM! I like the days before handheld devices and when you left work, you were DONE. Better yet, I liked that my Dad's job was Top Secret and that he HAD to leave everything at work.
Grrrr.
So, so true! Maybe we are just old farts of the "before there were cell phones" generation, but I have to say AMEN to that! I also think it's rude when you are waiting in line to talk on your phone. we are all stuck in this line together and we do not want to hear your conversation--especially if it consists of complaining about waiting in line!
Thank you! Now how are we going to get everyone to read your post so we can save our sanity!
Amen from me too! The other day I was with a friend (who will never read your blog) and she sat there texting the whole time I was talking to her. I hadn't seen her in months and she didn't look me in the eye for an hour because she was so busy texting I don't know who. I almost said something it ticked me off so bad. I think it should be common sense, but apparently is not.
WELL SAID!!!!!
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