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To come to a sudden, dead stop in the middle of a busy pavement to check your phone, consult a map, or simply contemplate existence, creating a human obstacle for everyone behind you.
Read full entry →Using 'cheers' as a greeting, farewell, acknowledgement, apology or vague conversational glue.
Read full entry →The deeply selfish, laser-focused staring at a blank mobile screen utilized by a seated passenger when an elderly person boards the train.
Read full entry →An explosive, internalized anger directed at a commuter who waits until they are blocking the gate to begin searching their pockets.
Read full entry →An adrenaline spike caused by the immediate, non-consensual threat of viewing a stranger's highly personal or explicit photographs.
Read full entry →The pathetic, culturally ingrained habit of assuming blame when an oblivious idiot walks squarely into your chest.
Read full entry →An arrogant, oblivious amble into active traffic by someone wearing noise-canceling headphones who believes they are immortal.
Read full entry →A catastrophic application of pulling force that bypasses the plug and destroys the structural integrity of the drywall.
Read full entry →A highly choreographed theatrical performance involving holding a dead smartphone to your ear to repel street fundraisers.
Read full entry →Announcing an intention for mindfulness or focus while simultaneously demonstrating the exact opposite behaviour in real time.
Read full entry →A sudden overwhelming backlog of messages and app alerts discovered the morning after midnight celebrations.
Read full entry →Blindsided by an unintended text substitution that slipped past a hurried proofread and into a sent professional message.
Read full entry →A small but real disappointment triggered by a work notification arriving well outside any reasonable hours.
Read full entry →So thoroughly repurposed across the internet that its true source is now completely untraceable.
Read full entry →A public, undignified physical collision entirely self-inflicted by staring at a phone screen instead of the pavement.
Read full entry →A small burst of neighbourhood joy triggered by the long-awaited comeback of a seasonal mobile dessert vendor.
Read full entry →A deep, well-earned scepticism about mobile signal bars that never actually correspond to call quality.
Read full entry →A brief but total collapse of professional dignity caused entirely by predictive text with a mind of its own.
Read full entry →A familiar, thirty-second wave of dread synchronised precisely to a xylophone melody most Britons know by heart.
Read full entry →A daily, high-stakes ritual of redialling repeatedly in a desperate bid to secure one of three available appointments.
Read full entry →A creeping dread of total navigational blindness triggered by a battery percentage in the single digits.
Read full entry →An involuntary physical reaction to hearing your own recorded voice, which never once sounds the way you imagine it.
Read full entry →A high-pressure, multi-pocket search performed under the judgmental gaze of an entire rush-hour queue.
Read full entry →The silent, judgmental glares of an entire quiet coach directed at one oblivious phone user.
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