An Etiquette Question:
While driving you’re trying to hold a conversation with your passenger but their face is buried in their phone, on Facebook or Tumblr, of course because, well, that’s so much more important than actual human interaction.
A few minutes later you excitedly point out that the girl’s high school track team is jogging up the road naked and well after you’ve passed them your passenger looks up and says, “Wha?”
A little while later and still trying to interact you say, “I had sex with your mother and your girlfriend at the same time!”, and there’s still that moment when what’s on their device is more important before they look up, now rather annoyed at the constant interruptions and say, “Wha”?
The question here is this: is it polite to punch them in the head before I throw their mobile device out the window or afterward?
Jeff, it seems that you might want to consider finding new friends who appreciate being with you more. As you know it is a Buddhist thing: being there when you are there.
Is your banner photo Lake Oscawana?
@Michael: I fear it’s a generational thing. But I also think it comes from a sense of lost or misplaced ego. If you’re not getting responses to your Facebook posts then your ego is not being stroked and if your ego is not being stroked then people don’t love you. Of course it’s all fatuous and immature.
But I will beat it, er, grow him out of it one way or another.
You have to punch them in the head first because it might be the only way you can actually get the damn device out of their hands.
@Patricia: This needs a “like” button!
No better idea than that, just wanted to get a word in to say ‘Hi’…!