No, I am not talking about tomorrow night's new episode of the Walking Dead. I went to a restaurant tonight to celebrate a friend's accomplishment. There were only four of us at the dinner. One of the people there, who is 34 years old, was on the cellphone the whole time! I'm not say s/he was talking on the phone, but rather they were playing games on the phone when not eating. This particular person does that all the time, even did it earlier that day at lunch. Extremely rude and knows it. But just to be even ruder s/he had the volume of the game up loud while the rest of us were talking. Friends have told this person that their behavior is rude and age inappropriate but s/he doesn't care. I used be able to tolerate his/her other idiosyncrasies but lately they just seem to be getting worse and I'm just not as tolerant. We used to be better friends, but because of this behavior I don't want to be considered friends with someone so immature and anti-social. I'm even considering not inviting him/her to group functions with mutual friends. I'm not saying that my phone isn't important to me, but so are my friends. And it's one thing to take a quick and important 1 min phone call or quickly read or reply to one text and quite another to be playing a game throughout dinner when you're out with friends.
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