"gtr" > wrote in message

> I live one block and around a corner, from an elementary school. Folks >
> park in front of my house and walk little Suzy or Jimmy to school each
> morning. I've been here 12 years. They use to walk together. Now mom or
> dad walks about 5 feet in front of Suzy, face buried in a phone, while
> Suzy tags along behind, sometimes yammering away merrily to the
> unresponsive parent. It galls me, but I assume that's what the walk to
> school now looks like in Beijing or Berlin too.

Good point and it'd gall me too. But then perhaps that is the grandparent
in me responding and as a young parent I could make the same choices as
those younger phone owners. But what are we all doing reading and posting?
I know I could be doing a lot more useful things elsewhere.