Parenting has worked it’s way into the thread. So ....
Whenever I’m in a coffee shop, McD’s or whatever and see a parent on a cell ignoring a kid I think ...
I’d like to walk over there, knock the cell out of his/her hand and snap at them, “Give your damn kid some attention!”
When the woman I was dating at the time got her first smart phone she was a little over the top about it. It was out at dinner in a restaurant. I told her if she didn’t put it away it would end up in the soup. She informed me we didn’t have soup. I told her the woman sitting against the wall on the other side of the restaurant does.