Phone Stacking

Have you heard the latest thing people are doing with their phones? It is not some super gadget or a dumb hipster craze, it is having the audacity to put their phone services, emails, and internet fax on hold and pay attention to who they are with. It still continues to amazes me that people will make plans to get together and when they finally see each other, they are still checking their phones. Maybe if they look up from that glowing screen once in a while, we might actually get somewhere as a society. If you are eating out with friends or family, you have to place the phone in the middle of the table as you place your order. Then if any of the devices start ringing, you cannot answer but if you cannot resist the temptation, you are responsible for the whole bill. Now I am sure that no one is going to be jumping for paying for their friends' lunch when the fridge at home is half bare so this seems to be a great incentive to actually spend time with the people around you. Hopefully, over time it will become a habit and more of a ritual that we will come to appreciate. What are your thoughts?