I am the same way.Meeting face to face is incredibly stressful for me. I prefer communicating over the Net.
Many families are starting to do cell phone baskets.
During meals and family time the phones go on silent and in the basket and can not be touched during that time.
Bravo!!!!!We have this. NO PHONES ALLOWED AT MY TABLE! Or in restaurants. I make the kids leave them in the car at restaurants. As busy as it is, we sit down to dinner 5 out of 7 nights a week and that may be all the time we are all together that day. I'll be damned if a ringtone is going to ruin it.
Lol, I am very old school about dinnertime!
Rude.I come from the landline generation. Here is no one that needs to reach me so badly that I have to get it immediately. I’m trying to live like I still have a landline. Leave me a msg and I will eventually call you back. I try to leave my phone at home if I’m going to dinner. Nothing annoys me more than a phone on silent but it has to be answered anyway and it’s a stupid “ hi I just want to talk” call. Other people do this to me and then I just sit there while they discuss what they are doing the rest of the day.
In several countries in Europe they have a 'strict liability' law - this means that you, the car driver, are assumed to be responsible and at fault for any accidents with cyclists (and maybe pedestrians? I'm not sure), unless you can prove otherwise.I too am very annoyed by people who walk along with their eyes glued to their phones. Apart from walking into people, the number of pedestrians being “hit by cars” has increased dramatically due to people not watching where they were going. Here in Australia using mobile phones while driving is illegal (big fine) as such inattention has been linked to multiple car accidents / deaths.
I was in my car, stopped and parked legally on the side of the road waiting for my daughter. I watched as a young women not only walked across the busy road not looking anywhere else except her phone and she kept walking and walked “smack bang” into my car. The look on her face as if it was my fault!