The Subject of this Blog Posting goes through our minds but is not often actually put into words by millions of us every day. This happens because we are interacting with people who are right in front of us but the people we are interacting with are paying us no nevermind.
The problem is our paying-no-attention-to-us friends are holding in their hands a Smartphone and the Smartphone has their constant attention and they are can’t stop looking at and pecking at it.
I was in a Mexican Restaurant last Saturday and my Only Friend (our little ongoing joke for the last 10 or so years) was at the table with me. I was paying attention to him and he was paying attention to me and we were the only people who were not paying ongoing constant interrupting attention to their Smartphones.
We were the first ones to occupy a table in the restaurant’s designated Outside Coronavirus/Wuhan Virus/Chinese Flu/ Novel Coronavirus/COVID-19/CCP (Chinese Communist Party) Virus/SARS-CoV-2 Virus/Flu/Pandemic Eating Survival Area.
As soon as the occupants of the second table sat down, they each took out their Smartphones and started doing unnecessary things on it. (Maybe I was not paying attention to my Only Friend after all because I sure watched these 2 Smartphoners a lot.)
When the menus arrived one of them put her Smartphone down and looked at the menu. The other one held the Menu in one hand and her Smartphone in the other and she continued to peck at the Smartphone while she read the Menu. (I sure hope this was not her only “talent”.)
Eventually 2 more tables were filled before we left. There were 3 Smartphoners at one table and 2 at the other 2 tables. As we left I took note that all 7 of them were looking at and pecking at their Smartphones.
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I may have put into a prior Blog Posting but I am about to put it again...
Steve Jobs Is In Heaven! ... Or is he still?
When Steve Jobs arrived in heaven he was assigned his cloud and given his never ending supply of Cannoli* and started munching away happily ever after. My sources tell me that God, being a keen observer of happenings down on Earth, keenly observed the Chaos that Steve’s Smartphone was causing and decided to relocate him. My sources did not want to presume where Steve went to but they are certain the direction he went was Not Up.
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
* Don’t embarrass yourself by commenting to this Blog Posting to tell me I should have pecked out “Cannolis” because “Cannoli” is already plural and “Cannolo” is singular. (Now you and I and the Dictionary are the only ones that know this.)
