Now that I have your attention….
……I probably don’t.
While reading this, I bet you’re also checking the stock market……doing laundry…….putting on makeup……. talking to your husband….. sitting on a plane or on a toilet.
Or maybe all of the above.
I used to wonder how kids could pay attention to music and TV and Facebook and 15 different windows open on the computer…… while doing their homework.
It’s been years since I witnessed a face-to-face conversation involving a teenager who wasn’t simultaneously using a phone to text or play games.
But I can’t blame it all on age when I rarely get behind the wheel…..and barely get through a meal…. without peeking at my Blackberry.
Multi-tasking is multiplying with the use and usefulness of our electronic extensions of ourselves.
Today I read about an event at the White House, where the speakers included the President, First Lady and Madeline Albright— where the audience kept looking down at their cell phones.
The President doesn’t command our attention.
And the ultimate multi-task: -15% of Americans admit they interrupt the act of sex—to check the cellphone.
Is nothing sacred? Is there anything that gets your undivided attention anymore?
When I am reading your blogs, I do NOTHING else because I do not want to miss one single thing you have to say!
Have a wonderful day!
Thank you, very sweet! Which reminds me that maybe the only thing that consistently gets 100% of my attention…is chocolate.
Another thing that gets our undivided attention as mothers is a telephone call starting with:
“Hi, Mom, I feel like a lonely soul today”;
or any other number of openers guaranteed to focus concentration on the matter at hand!
You know, Marla, you’re exactly right–all it takes to get my complete attention on the phone are two words: Hello Mom??
Mine is a bit of a variation on the “Hello Mom?” It’s more like: “Hello Mom? I’m thinking about getting another tattoo.”
Oy. That would definitely get full attention. I wonder if the next generation of moms will feel differently about tattoos.
They interrupt sex to check their cell phones? What, they can’t wait 5 lousy minutes??? Sheesh!
You’re always so funny!
What got me is that 15% ADMIT they interrupt sex. I wonder how many more there are, who don’t admit it.