Togetherness

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Is texting other people from the same table during your brunch date:




Neither of these two even put down there phones to eat. And the couple of times they spoke, they held the phone just to the side of their face: "You may speak, but you better know that you're interrupting something important."

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  1. Bob Murphy2:33 PM

    I wish I were there, so I could take a photo of you and post it on my blog with the commentary, "A sad man, who goes around judging others instead of talking to his kids."

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    1. gcallah5:54 PM

      Hmm, see their faces in the picture, Bob?

      Oh, wait, you don't, do you? And I deliberately cut those faces out -- they were in the original.

      Why is that? Because my interest is not in judging *those two people*, but in noting the social phenomena.

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  2. Bob Murphy1:01 AM

    Oh, I take it back then. I thought you were making fun of two people who lacked faces. And I thought, "Geez Gene, haven't they suffered enough?!"

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    1. gcallah1:25 AM

      Okay, but did you consider the reason their faces weren't there? Cause the post ain't about them, or "making fun of them," but about a deeply disturbing social phenomena.

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