In a small restaurant in New York last week, I watched an attractive 30-something woman interact intensely with her smart phone the entire time she was at the table with a clearly irritated spouse/partner and two other bemused couples.
It was a mesmerizing display of bad manners in the modern age, performed by someone who by all appearances should know better.
My daughter and I couldn't quit watching the scene unfold - we thought it was a "Candid Camera" episode - and have been talking about it since.
