"Maybe I’m being unfair, I think to myself when I see couples like that, slumped in their seats, each ignoring the other (“It’s her birthday,” they tell us in advance, “make it special,”) and scrolling noncommittally through their respective feeds. I don’t know what their deal is, who they are, what’s going on in their lives. And those folks standing on chairs and rearranging their plates at an angle and moving the candle in for ambiance, fiddling with filters while their food goes cold? Maybe it’s nice that they just want to document the experience. There's nothing wrong with being inspired by a nice looking plate...
And then I think, NOPE. Fuck that so very much. If you've made the choice to literally break bread with someone for a few hours, the least you could do is put your ugly Samsung away."
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words from Your Server, badass phone zombies by L.A.-based illustrator Evan Yarbrough.
