yes!

I don't have a mobile/cell phone & don't understand this modern trend of always needing to be in contact with someone who is not part of the present company. Or in contact with someone while walking down the street, riding a bike, driving a car (totally illegal here but always done, sometimes causing accidents), in shops & public transport etc.

Some years back I was with friends, one of whome was going thru a crisis & crying while telling us about it - a phone rang & the owner reached for the button that shut it up. Today I so often see folks answer calls/texts in the middle of conversations, meals, concerts, shows ...

And I don't want to get started about parents whose call/text is so much more important than their child, so expect another generation of people who find more interest in someone at the other end of a phone than the folks they are with.

At the beginning of the change of power in North Korea one of our cartoonists showed a small beloved leader, a weighty be-medalled general & the large young son - father is saying something like "Son, someday soon all this will be yours" - son is texting using both thumbs with all his concentration on the phone & the music in his years & replies "yeh, whatever"   

sandra