This blog is way left of center...
My brother wrote a blog post last year about going to a restaurant in Encino with a group of coworkers and seeing four teenage girls sitting at a nearby table. All of them were sitting quietly and texting.
My brother said to his coworkers, "I hope they're not all texting each other."
Everyone laughed out loud and the girls all quit texting and glared over at them. Then, they immediately went back to texting.
My brother said, "Uh, oh. Now they're texting about us!"
Everyone laughed even harder.
You can't make this shit up.
One of the math teachers at my college told me her middle-school daughter studies while her thumbs are texting away on her phone. After a few generations of this the human brains has got to mutate...yipes.
Heh. This is right up there with the street grate that fell in (I think in Queens, but I don't really pay that much attention to NY1, shame) several weeks ago, because a class of school children was taking their picture crowded on top of it in front of their school.
I mean, scary and all, but really? Really? Outraged teacher, who I assumed was responsible for the photo placement, was way outraged. Plunking 25 kids on one of those grates at once and you're surprised that it caved in? No one was injured, so I feel justified in my laughter.
@Level Best - I have ADD like whoa and upon disclosure I sometimes find people expect me to breezily multitask in just such a way. And I can't - just the thought of trying to read and focus in order to study, but also be coherently carrying on a texting conversation (because I will only use LOL on my deathbed, dammit!) makes me panicky.
Hmm. Someone is smoking pot outside and it's blowing into my window. Breathing deep...
ahh, lucky you!
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