If you think you might be a contender for the Compulsive Phone Checking Championship, be aware that the field is deep and the competition is stiff. I have six daughters who could well be finalists, but they assure me that their friends are much worse. My kid found out what her Christmas present was by checking her email in the middle of a one-on-one face-to-face conversation with me. This is the latest from Randall Munroe at xkcd. Refresh! Refresh!
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As Confucius said: "The smarter the phone, the dumber the user."
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I tell them that every time it happens. So it doesn't happen often when they are talking to ME, but to anyone else...
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Weren't these kids ever taught that checking their phones in a middle of a conversation is rude? Or maybe their definition of rude is just not the same ...
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