I did some writing today in the cafe across from work during my break. Bringing my computer to work would be a really stupid thing to do and asking for trouble, so I just keep a few pieces of regular lined paper in my back pocket and do it the old fashioned way and type it up when I get home.
A few tables away from me was a group of high-school-age girls giggling away and being way too loud, as girls that age are apt to do, and naturally their cell phones were glued to their hands and constantly in use.
Since I am a certified nutjob, I took these two completely unrelated things and from them managed to come up with an equally unrelated question:
Do kids these days still pass notes in school?
No, I'm serious--do they?? Cell phones have become so common that it's almost harder to find someone who doesn't have one, even among children. Passing notes was an integral part of my school days. It was so normal to me and probably to everyone else whose school days predated the popularity of cell phones--but I don't know whether it would occur to a generation of teenagers who have grown up with cell phones. It seems so inevitable to me, to get a message to a friend not immediately near you by writing it down and secretly getting it passed over while the teacher's back was turned, but it might have only seemed like an obvious thing to do because we were familiar with the idea of words written on paper travelling from one person to another. Kids today have email, and text messages, so would they even think to pass notes in school?
I wonder...
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