veloharris t1_ixys99u wrote
It didn't use to be this bad. This is a post COVID phenomenon, additionally people have become phone addicted in a way that wasn't true just a few years ago.
Full-Resource9949 t1_ixzqnn3 wrote
Wish I could upvote this more
Beardus_Maximus t1_iy07ilo wrote
Maybe you need a second phone so you can upvote again.
Full-Resource9949 t1_iy1dlfl wrote
Bloody genius
sagarnola89 t1_ixzyu4r wrote
Ya if you ever want to be depressed, sit on the metro when it's on I-66 and observe how many of the drivers on the highway are on their phones. It's literally more than half.
veloharris t1_iy02wyl wrote
Just go to any intersection with a traffic light. I'll bet you 70% of the time or more the person at the front of the line will take 5 secs or more to notice the green light and actually move, because they're on their phone. I never remember honking at an intersection when the light turned green pre-covid. Now it's atleast once per car trip.
sagarnola89 t1_iy03hcm wrote
True. That's bad, but that bothers me less than the thousands of people driving 75 mph on the highway while straight up playing on their phones.
well-that-was-fast t1_iya7bk0 wrote
> It didn't use to be this bad. This is a post COVID phenomenon,
Stress from things changing related to covid have people acting out in many public ways -- at restaurants, retail stores, and when driving.
The US doesn't have a lot of mental health resources and it's going to be a long haul to get back to something approximating 'normal' public space behavior.
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