older people.... refer to Henny Penny.
You lost me? Who, and or what is ‘Henny Penny’?
Anyway... true story. About three weeks ago I went for a walk in the afternoon, as I occasionally do, and I happen to live somewhat near the high school I attended. As it turned out I was walking down the street that many of the kids walk down when school lets out which turned out to be an expedition into the zombie like cell phone culture. Every kid was walking three or four abreast and not one, and I mean not ONE was talking to each other and they each had their head buried in a cell phone. I finally realized that that I could either walk off the sidewalk after bumping into several of them (as they refused to look up), or stand my ground and refuse to constantly step aside and walk on some ones lawn so as to dodge their zombie like state. I chose the latter and refused to step aside and collided with one after the other, both male and female, and actually knocked one down when they lost balance.
Granted, this was quite stupid on my part considering my age, but I was eventually seething with anger and the stupidity of it all. It wasn’t so much the fact that they were using their cell phones, but that all of them were totally
oblivious to their surroundings. Can you imagine some young women walking down that street with a child in a stroller, or perhaps some person who was in need of a cane and having to constantly move aside off of the sidewalk to avoid a multitude of kids in a zombie like trance on their cell phones or otherwise being knocked down!
My daughter is 43 and admittedly uses the cell phone a lot (aside from the computer) because of her job, but even she admits that there is a limit and sets a limit on its use and refuses to give my granddaughter a cell phone until she is in high school and can at least pay for half of it. I was never strict with my daughter (spoiled the hell out of her), much less my granddaughter who I also spoil, but I guess at least I succeeded in instilling some semblance of common sense in her. Well, that and to keep the damn kids off of her freaking lawn! :wink:
