Hardie, the art of bumping the gums with mates/peers or whatever is dead to the young guns. This just isn't just isolated to girls/ladies, young fellas I find can be just as bad
Used to walk through lunch room, not uncommon to find half dozen sitting at table, all engrossed in smart phone process.
In the end, a few of us started to challenge them on what they were doing, asking questions like:
Is the person or data you are concentrating on with your phone mean more to you than one of these sitting here with you?
Got some very embarrassed sheepish looks I can tell you
We would follow up with, so what did you do on weekend/lastnight , to any one of the mob, then soon as we had them bumping the gums, would then get right into some nitty gritty on what they did, where they went and so on. We found within minutes the banter was that good, the phones were soon forgotten
Some of the relayed antics we had to walk away as
and not just related to young guns, girls we found were just as eager to tell mates of antics.
So in the end, the conversations were rather good to hear as you walked through. No more like you experienced this morning.
They just needed some lead ins we found
