Cell phone rant

Everyone who knows me, knows that i am addicted to my cell phone.  There is are reason that i am. The first reason is because when my first husband had a heart attack, I didn't have my phone with me.  The second reason is that for some many years I had to be available for my mom and her issues.  My phone was literally part of my hand for a long time. I play on my phone and read random things in public. I look at Facebook and Instagram.  If I am bored, I will look at Pinterest.   If I do get a call or make a call, I do not have entire conversations though. Short, sweet, to the point. Yesterday, I was in a room with many people.  Three people chose to use the time chatting Not important chats, just chatting.  I just put my own phone away and blatantly eavesdrop on everyone's conversations. Here's what I learned.  The woman to my left is having children color coordinated eggs.  Each child will be assigned a color and that is the only color of eggs they can collect.  Someone in their family is copping an attitude and not coming. It seems that he is the renegade of the family and he won't be missed, so the lady beside me agrees and don't have an issue with this.  Her opinion is, "Why put forth the effort and have him be ignored anyway."   To the right of me the woman was coordinating a party. The invitations were mailed yesterday.  Apparently the person she was talking to believes that since the party is memorial day weekend, it's too early to send them out.  The women were still not happy that "the party" isn't sooner.  Someone is going out of town, thus the party was scheduled around that person's schedule. Another woman is meeting her friend at Red Robbin.  She will only have a salad since she is meeting with her book club for dinner.  Someone was talking to a pharmacist.  Apparently, they can't afford the prescribed med for their husband.  And yes… I do know what the script was.  Her husband probably would not like to hear that it was talked about in such an open forum. I am not trying to bore anyone with these conversations.  I am trying to give awareness to how busy we all think we are.  We really can't make these, with the exception of the pharmacy/ patient's wife conversation, calls from home?  Are people so busy that their only time for lengthy conversations is in public settings surrounded by people? Doesn't nearly everyone have a cell, why couldn't they text?