Husband and I went to dinner last eve. You would have thought it was New's Year's Eve itself for the crowd waiting to get a table. We claimed our "beeper" and prepared to wait... a 30 minute wait I was told.
(However, I had my eye on the cafe section where you get to seat yourself if a table frees up, which it did in about 15 mins., but that is not the point of this story).
This story, is about how we have become too entranced with our electronic toys that we spend all our time looking, playing, attending to them, that we don't even realize what the hell is going on around us.
Case in point:
Location: Waiting for a table @ super busy restaurant last night
Victim: Small girl, probably 10-12ish
Criminals: Her parents, 30ish
As hubby and I stood waiting, I could not help but notice the family in front of me. Husband/father, wife/mother and an adorable girl somewhere between 10-12 years of age. The girl really caught my eye because she reminded me quite a bit of a younger version of Emily (daughter of blogger Heather of Beauty That Moves).
While that family was waiting to be seated, the husband/father played a game on his phone. Wife/mother did something with her phone - not quite sure, seemed to be texting, but whatever it was, she was MOST INTENT. Daughter, held beeper and looked around her.
Neither parent talked to the daughter the whole time I was watching. At one point the mother leaned over to show the husband something on her phone.
My heart broke for the daughter.
What has this world come to that what is happening on your phone is MORE IMPORTANT than what is happening around you? That the people you are texting are more important that those at your side?
Shame on those parents.
Shame on the majority of the world.
Wake up people.
