Phone Stacking Game Finds Followers in St. Louis Area
The new hot trend in dining has nothing to do with food.
We've all done it. Here’s my story: Last week, I was waiting for the boyfriend to arrive for our sushi date. Bored, I watched couples at the tables around me, but one in particular caught my eye. Two young women with full plates of tempura and bright pink-and-green cocktails spent their entire meal engrossed in (not each other, not their food, not their drinks, but...) their phones. I swear they hardly said a word to each other the entire 45 minutes I was waiting. (I was super early, he was a little late. Typical.) As they left and the boyfriend arrived, I filled him in on the their ghastly behavior, my voice dripping with judgment. After dinner, as we sat a bar waiting for our movie to start, I was halfway into a work email when my …
Lindsay Toler
12:26 pm on Thursday, January 12, 2012
I saw that! That was shocking. The 'Marimba' ringtone went on for several minutes! more ›