DATING ADVICE
If He Checks His Damn Phone One More Time on a Date, I Will Scream
Is he a narcissist?
Are you checking your phone while on a date with me????
Think again.
On a date, this guy thinks he’s so important he must have his phone next to him on the bar or table. Just in case a call or text comes in from the President of the United States?
Apparently, I’m not as important as that call or text.
There’s a word for this:
phub·bing: the practice of ignoring one’s companion or companions in order to pay attention to one’s phone or another mobile device.
Definitions from Oxford Languages
At this point, I want to walk out.
I sat there and let Joe Blow, my first-time date from Match.com, proceed to answer a text from his daughter, who lived next door to him, asking where he kept the vegetable oil at his house so she could borrow some to make brownies…..THE NEXT DAY!!!
Now, that’s damn IMPORTANT, wouldn’t you say?
He relayed this information to me as if I would understand the emergency nature of the text.
