Texting Circles

You're standing around with a group of your mates and someone glances down at their phone, it is infectious, within seconds the entire group is huddled around cupping their mobile phones like squirrels holding precious nuts. The conversation stops as everyone click clicks away with their thumbs, with nothing left to do you end up pulling your phone out of your pocket and checking your texts. There is one from your wife/girlfriend/husband/boyfriend it says "what do you feel like for dinner" you reply "dunno, spaghetti Bolognaise?" I mean really, was the text that important that it was worth killing off the conversation. Next time someone does this to you, as soon as they have put the phone back in their pocket, take out a fountain pen and paper and start writing a long letter to a relative you haven't spoken to for sometime - or just punch them in the face.