The Cubicle’s Backporch

For St. Patricks Day, MrC and I went to a Mexican restaurant (Mexican is close to Irish, right?) with some friends. After getting my first margarita (b/c before then, all I can focus on is WHERE IS MY DAMN DRINK) I started looking around and noticed a couple sitting to the right of us. They were younger (late teens, maybe) and the girl was texting on her phone. I didn’t think much of it.

Halfway through my drink (what? You don’t keep track of time by the amount you’ve had to drink? Trust me- time starts FLYING after drink #3) I was looking around at people and noticed that she was still playing on her phone. With the guy she was with alternating between staring at her downturned head and staring at her phone.

Now I was intrigued.

So I kept slipping looks over there and I didn’t see them say ONE WORD to each other. She was 100% engrossed in her phone and he continued to stare at the top of her head and her phone. At one point, they flagged down the waiter and asked for more chips and salsa. And by ‘they’ I mean that he stopped the waiter and she said “Uh, can we get some more chips?” And he said “And salsa.”

It seemed like they were comfortable around each other (no first date awkwardness) but like I said, not ONE WORD TO EACH OTHER.

Toward the end of dinner (after 3 margaritas) MrC turned to me and said “That girl has been on her phone all night!” And I was all “I KNOW! I’ve been watching her!”

They left before we did, but I never heard either one of them say ‘Let’s go.’ She just put her phone away, put her coat on, and he stood up and put his coat on.

WEIRD.

But then I started thinking about teenagers these days and their wealth of technology and ability to TOTALLY IGNORE people for a whole meal. And the fact that maybe they think that’s okay.

And that led me to a whole other topic.

Have you ever read someone’s facebook status that says something like “Out to dinner with the guy/girl and having the best time EVER. I LOVE spending time with HIM/HER”? B/c whenever I read something like that, I picture them taking their phone out during this TOTALLY AWESOME dinner to get on facebook and tell the world that they are out to dinner and having SO MUCH FUN. And then I wonder how much fun they are really having if they have the thought that they must get on facebook RIGHT AWAY to tell the WORLD that they are with the person they LOVE to spend time with- all the while ignoring the person they are actually with.

This, of course, does not apply to statuses that are witty while mentioning being out with the guy/girl. Because those are entertaining.

But statuses that are posted just to tell people that you are out with your wife/husband/gf/bf/bestfriend/son/daughter and that you can’t believe how much fun you’re having?

DUMB!

Or even worse- the ones that are all “If you have the best wife/husband in the world who works hard to support you and your family and who would do anything for you b/c he loves you so much and you can’t believe how much you love him and when he farts little flowers come out because he’s perfect and he treats you like a queen and when you kiss little bubbly hearts form above your heads b/c you are SO MEANT TO BE, blah blah blah… then repost this.”

DUMB!

It’s amazing how much facebook changed when they opened it up to everyone instead of just college students. (Don’t get me wrong- I love that they opened it up to everyone, but it changed. A LOT.)