I’m outside one cold evening around dinner time walking past restaurants and cafes with no intention of going in.
One in particular I had never seen before. Its no wonder - this restaurant is tiny. It could barely fit a family comfortably for Thanksgiving dinner. However tonight it is perfectly warm, candle-lit, and chatty inside, with guest’s tables inches away from the next. And its packed. Outside are three guests, all on their cell phones. Presumably it is too loud inside to have a cell phone conversation? Or maybe it is too socially intimate to carry on a conversation with someone only digitally present? In any case, how do you tear yourself away from the intimacy inside to engage digitally outside, alone? What do you say?
Let your napkin say it for you.
