Note to parents with teens looking for Summer work...

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20. The employees collecting carts from the parking corrals at the grocery store stand in the corrals and use their phones,

and I've seen it too many times for them to be having a random emergency. I think they use the trip outside to grab a quick look; one of them was even pushing about 3 carts with one hand and looking at his phone with the other.

I walked past one of those massage establishments at the mall where they'll do a 15 minute massage while you're face down in the chair. The person getting the massage of course couldn't see that the person doing the massage had her right elbow in their back while looking at her phone with her left hand. In the window. For everyone to see. Obviously she saw nothing wrong with that.

I was waiting in the airport a few weeks ago for a family member to arrive and wow, the amount of people looking down at their phones... this scene first came to my awareness in the university setting about 2010 or so and now it's everywhere where people gather. People stopped still, not moving, looking down. When you see it in a crowded place, it looks like a frozen frame of a movie. Just bizarre, if you stop for a moment to take it all in.