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01-06-2017, 08:42
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https://i2.wp.com/boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/smartphone_pub.jpg?resize=650%2C421‘Whatever happened to having a conversation, instead of tapping away at screens? That’s what I want to know.’We’ve been on the receiving end of a version of that heckle twice in the past month. What we did to earn it was, of course, being caught in the pub with one or more smartphones out.
There are all sorts of good reasons for looking at your phone in the pub, even in company. In our case, we’re often taking notes for one project or other, tinkering with a photo of the very pub we’re in for social media, or looking up the answer to an important question that’s come up like, what is the etymology of the word*‘poo’? (Only used to refer to faeces in the UK since the 1960s, apparently.)
In other words, it’s part*of the way we make conversation, not an obstruction to it.
And, anyway, we’ve been together for very nearly 20 years so if one of us does want the other to put down their phone, we’re pretty comfortable just saying:*‘Oi! Give me some attention! You’re being boring.’
Both times we’ve received this kind of telling off it’s come from older men and hasn’t felt friendly, or as if was intended as*a conversation starter — just like a kind of drive by judgement.
Why do people do insert themselves into other people’s business this way? And does it bother you to see people looking at screens in the pub?
QUICK ONE: In My Day, 2017 Edition (http://boakandbailey.com/2017/06/quick-one-in-my-day-2017-edition/) originally posted at Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog (http://boakandbailey.com)
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https://i2.wp.com/boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/smartphone_pub.jpg?resize=650%2C421‘Whatever happened to having a conversation, instead of tapping away at screens? That’s what I want to know.’We’ve been on the receiving end of a version of that heckle twice in the past month. What we did to earn it was, of course, being caught in the pub with one or more smartphones out.
There are all sorts of good reasons for looking at your phone in the pub, even in company. In our case, we’re often taking notes for one project or other, tinkering with a photo of the very pub we’re in for social media, or looking up the answer to an important question that’s come up like, what is the etymology of the word*‘poo’? (Only used to refer to faeces in the UK since the 1960s, apparently.)
In other words, it’s part*of the way we make conversation, not an obstruction to it.
And, anyway, we’ve been together for very nearly 20 years so if one of us does want the other to put down their phone, we’re pretty comfortable just saying:*‘Oi! Give me some attention! You’re being boring.’
Both times we’ve received this kind of telling off it’s come from older men and hasn’t felt friendly, or as if was intended as*a conversation starter — just like a kind of drive by judgement.
Why do people do insert themselves into other people’s business this way? And does it bother you to see people looking at screens in the pub?
QUICK ONE: In My Day, 2017 Edition (http://boakandbailey.com/2017/06/quick-one-in-my-day-2017-edition/) originally posted at Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog (http://boakandbailey.com)
More... (http://boakandbailey.com/2017/06/quick-one-in-my-day-2017-edition/)