Monday, October 27

and the dish ran away with the...

I am baffled.


When was another utensil added to the standard place setting at the dinner table? Fork to the left, empty space in the middle for the plate, knife and spoon to the right nestled atop a neatly folded napkin and to the right of that, a cell phone.


Apparently, modern society has added the cell phone as an essential mealtime tool, but that's not what has me baffled.


When did we transfer our personal power to the ring tone? Or more importantly, to the person dialing our cell phone number? When did responding to a ring tone become an involuntary reflex like breathing or blinking or digesting a meal?

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