This is going to be the first of two entries stemming from the same outing. My family and I went to see "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" yesterday (the first time the entire family went to see a movie together in years), and we were all pretty happy about this. We get there just in time for the previews (which all looked quite good, as previews these days tend to), my dad got popcorn, and things were looking up. Then, the movie started, and as if on cue, this stupid woman in front of us pulls out not one but two cell phones to fiddle around with. It's safe to say she was texting on her Sidekick or whatever annoying text machine she had, but on some flip phone (presumably her boyfriend's) it looked like she was changing the settings or something. For an hour. The sad thing is that I could actually tell what she was doing since the theater was, as theaters tend to be, dark. She didn't stop until I got tired of having faith in human beings and started kicking her chair. Needless to say, she got the message and put that shit away.
This leads into the point that I really wanted to make: people have actually become over-reliant on their cell phones. It isn't enough to be capable of contacting people at any point in time; people actually feel like it's necessary to stay in constant contact with others regardless of other preoccupations that would otherwise merit full attention. I mean, there's no way that you can't set aside two hours of your life to enjoy a movie, and if you can't, don't go. Rent a movie--stay at home where you can do whatever you want without bothering people trying to share the same experience. Of course this goes beyond the movies, but that's just one pertinent example. Wherever you go, you can see someone answer their phone or return a text without a second thought as to how it will affect others, and though that effect can vary in terms of negativity, it's still not good. There used to be something sacred about eating a meal at a restaurant, rooting for your team at a sporting event, or driving from one place to another, yet now anywhere is fair territory for hollering at yo boy or hitting up shorty with a text.
This leads into the point that I really wanted to make: people have actually become over-reliant on their cell phones. It isn't enough to be capable of contacting people at any point in time; people actually feel like it's necessary to stay in constant contact with others regardless of other preoccupations that would otherwise merit full attention. I mean, there's no way that you can't set aside two hours of your life to enjoy a movie, and if you can't, don't go. Rent a movie--stay at home where you can do whatever you want without bothering people trying to share the same experience. Of course this goes beyond the movies, but that's just one pertinent example. Wherever you go, you can see someone answer their phone or return a text without a second thought as to how it will affect others, and though that effect can vary in terms of negativity, it's still not good. There used to be something sacred about eating a meal at a restaurant, rooting for your team at a sporting event, or driving from one place to another, yet now anywhere is fair territory for hollering at yo boy or hitting up shorty with a text.
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