While waiting to see Nick Offerman today, I noticed something I found
really weird. One row in front of me there was a guy and a girl sitting
next to each other but not talking to each other; the guy was on his
phone and the girl was pretty much staring into space. I figured they
didn't know each other but then a few minutes later they started
engaging in what I have termed 'excessive PDA'. There I was thinking
they didn't even know each other at all.
A few impatient minutes
of waiting later, I noticed another guy sitting next to a girl and they
also weren't really talking to each other. This time both of them were
on their phones doing who knows what. I again deduced they didn't know
each other because of the lack of acknowledging each others' existence.
Yet again I was wrong; apparently they are a couple too.
I don't
know if I can overgeneralize from this small observational study of mine
but the implications for the direction 'couplehood' appears to be
moving seems sad to me. If two people who are together can sit next to
each other and practically ignore their significant other in place of
doing something on their phone then what does that say? Seems to me
people would rather be with their phones than with someone they care
about. If that's where we're headed it's not like I can change it but I
do want to comment on it because it bothers me more than it should.
