My barber told me to ditch my phone and just read magazines

I was sitting there waiting for a cut last Saturday scrolling through my feed, and my barber just says 'you remember what it felt like to look at pictures without swiping?' He handed me a car magazine from 2014 and I realized I hadn't read a single article start to finish in like a year. Has anyone else had someone call them out like that in a weird totally random spot?

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the_kevin14d ago

Man your barber basically speedran a wakeup call on you. That's hilarious but also kind of brutal. Like here I am thinking I'm just killing time and he hits me with a philosophical curveball about attention spans. I bet that car magazine had some wild ads in it too, probably for cars that don't even exist anymore. But yeah I've had random people call me out in weird spots before. One time a cashier at a grocery store told me to stop looking at my phone and actually look at the price tags because I was holding up the line. I mean she wasn't wrong but dang.

noahhernandez14d ago

lol I mean it's just a magazine, not like he handed you ancient scrolls. People act like looking at your phone for 10 minutes is a crisis.