Call Me Maybe… Or Not

A teenager walks into the place on a Saturday morning.

Teen: “Hey, I can’t buy anything, but can I log in to the store wifi?”

Me: “I mean, I guess?”

Teen: “Thanks! I gotta meet up with my friend, but I ran out of data, and I can’t find them! Had to walk all the way over here to find wifi!”

Me: “It must suck to run out of both data and minutes.”

Teen: “Minutes?”

Me: “Yeah. I mean, you must have run out of those, too, or… you… would… have… called… him?”

The look of shock and realisation I saw on his face still makes me laugh to this day.

He dusted off the “contacts” app on his phone and called his friend. They had a fifteen-second conversation to secure a meet-up point.

It amazes me how little young people use phones for their original purpose!