Mobile Phone Users

[Caspin]

The other day I saw a sight that you might have enjoyed. I reached the top of an escalator on the underground. Ahead I see a woman patiently standing in line, reading her kindle. Very good. Ahead of her is a man, patiently standing in line, reading a paperback novel. Splendid. Ahead of him is a man studiously completing his sudoku puzzle in the newspaper. All right then. Do I join the queue of patient individuals? Well no! I do not! Because they are queuing for nothing whatsoever. The guy at the front just wants to fill out all his 7s, or 9s, or whatever essential part of the puzzle he is so engrossed in. The other two muppets behind him, apparently unable to look up from their reading, have detected a stationary object ahead using their peripheral vision and stopped to queue, without looking to see what the hold up might be. I, and many millions of others, swarm round them and out of the station.

I wonder how long that studious trio stood there?!