On the subject of a 'smart' world...

[Hank70SS]

I'm pretty sure everyone here has a cell phone and except for Tony, they're probably all smart phones. So how many of you can't go anywhere without your phone? How many have a panic attack if you discover you left it at home when you went out?

Last night we went out to dinner, Lynda, our son, his girlfriend and myself. So that's 4 phones, I know we each had one with us, but I didn't see any of them. They weren't in our hands or even on the table. We had an actual conversation, you know where people talk to each other, listen to each other and so on. But in the next booth the phones were out, no conversation. So I looked at the table over to my right, same thing, and the next table, ditto.

So why not get carry out or better yet get it delivered? Then you can sit on your couch, eat your food and play with your phone and maybe watch TV too? If you don't want to talk to the people you're with why go out to dinner with them? Stay home and have a relationship with your phone.

I'm sure you've all witnessed the same thing. It just kind of bothers me that people can't communicate in full sentences anymore. The extent of their language and communication skills is sending garbled text messages that require a secret decoder ring to decipher.