There are a lot of books that are pocket-sized, and many people carry purses. I don’t have a book every time I’m in line at the grocery store, but for the examples the author uses - “waiting for the bus, or for someone to come home, or for the next scheduled event to start” - yes, of course I’ll have a book with me.
No one’s beaten the shit out of me for it yet. (Some folk did look askance at me at a wedding once.) But we’re not even talking about “people who get angry at you for looking at your phone,” we’re talking about people who pretend they have no idea how humans ever functioned without phones.
There are a lot of books that are pocket-sized, and many people carry purses. I don’t have a book every time I’m in line at the grocery store, but for the examples the author uses - “waiting for the bus, or for someone to come home, or for the next scheduled event to start” - yes, of course I’ll have a book with me.
No one’s beaten the shit out of me for it yet. (Some folk did look askance at me at a wedding once.) But we’re not even talking about “people who get angry at you for looking at your phone,” we’re talking about people who pretend they have no idea how humans ever functioned without phones.