Nose in the phones

I got an early Mother's Day surprise from my son and his family as they came up this weekend to see me and the folks. I took us all out to breakfast before going to see Dad in rehab.

The family of four sitting at the table next to us was a Mom, Dad and 2 beasties all four of them with their noses in their phones. I set my phone in the middle of the table and told my gang to do the same. I said whoever touches their phone first gets the bill. At the end of the meal I reached for my phone (I knew I was paying) so my son points and says you get the bill Mom. I just smiled. We all talked to each other throughout the whole meal. Anyone sitting at the table my son sits always gets to belly laugh because he has the family comic genes. He is simply hilarious and his son fits right in.

It is pretty cool to see how much my grandson grows between visits. At the age of ten kids just have growing spurts and I get to notice it so much more now that I rarely see him compared to before I moved to Tampa.

It seems no matter where I'm at or where I look someone has their nose buried in their phone.
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MiMi is guilty as charged blushing grin
I do the same, always setup my phone to silent when entering a place with people, (restaurants, banks, etc) and also, don't use it when on dinner, unless it's agreed upon to use the phone. Sometimes I used to go out eating with my gf and we just wanted to use our phone, we didn't let that prevent us from communicating.

Provided me and my gf used to talk 24/7 for years, we never got tired of talking to each other.
Fay, brilliant! applause

And don't listen to Mimi, a bunch of us spent an evening together and she didn't look at her phone once even when we all had them out to take photos laugh
My favourite pictures of Biff and MiMi love

MollyBaby took them.

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This was taken by Biff...secretly grin

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That is true.

That is why people can develop relationships.

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It's nice to hear you had a good time with your family.
Terrific idea about the phones in the middle. thumbs up
I'm glad you got to see your son and his family.
Hello Unfayzed wave I love , love love your idea about phones in the middle,thumbs up Thanks,
im not that interested in my phone...sometimes unless I might need it for something like calling a cab I just leave it at home...I like to present in what ever I am doing and that doesn't include being on my phone all the time....now if im at home I might answer texts but that's it....I choose to be present for whoever is with me instead.....wave
Good one, UnFayzed. thumbs up
We had a phone when I was a kid. It was one of those kind you see in old B/W movies with the rotary dial available in any color you want as long as it was black. I still remember our number RE4-7089. The RE stood for Regent. Back then all the exchanges were names and if you gave someone your phone number they probably knew where you lived. Regent was the Yorkville upper east side neighborhood of Manhattan.

I have a smart phone but the only time I remove it from the house is to charge it from the cigarette lighter in my car. I literally hate the thing. The only reason I have it is to get online ie Hotspot. Only 1 person on earth has my number for the smartphone and that's my son. I have a flip phone for calls.
Fay, I am going to use that in future. Who ever touches the phone first gets the bill. grin



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