I was at this gathering a while back and a kid I had never meet before came up to me and asked if I had any games on my phone. Are people in the habit of handing their cell phones to strange children? I said, 'I'm sorry, I don't speak English' and they seemed to accept that.
Adults in this kid's life (parents) hand them a phone as a toy/treat/distraction (usually the last one). Or maybe they have something similar at home for themselves. So, a bored kid sees adult using a phone, so kid asks adult for phone.
I used to do this way before cellphones. When at a house where there was a personal computer sitting around, I was usually very disappointed at being told "no" after asking to play games on it. But I always asked. To a little five-year-old-warp-core, that's just what those were for.
Edit: ubiquitous portable computing (modern phones) would have probably rendered me inconsolable after a while.
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xkbx@startrek.website · 19 pts · 1y
Get in the slice of life anime, Shinji
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 1y
Is that 4chan girl?
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 1y
Her name is Yotsuba, and she doesn't deserve this slanderous association
sqibkw@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yotsuba%26!
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1y
Yes
NorthWestWind@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
No but I have 3DS
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 1y
I was at this gathering a while back and a kid I had never meet before came up to me and asked if I had any games on my phone. Are people in the habit of handing their cell phones to strange children? I said, 'I'm sorry, I don't speak English' and they seemed to accept that.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
Not exactly - it's way more simple than that:
Adults in this kid's life (parents) hand them a phone as a toy/treat/distraction (usually the last one). Or maybe they have something similar at home for themselves. So, a bored kid sees adult using a phone, so kid asks adult for phone.
I used to do this way before cellphones. When at a house where there was a personal computer sitting around, I was usually very disappointed at being told "no" after asking to play games on it. But I always asked. To a little five-year-old-warp-core, that's just what those were for.
Edit: ubiquitous portable computing (modern phones) would have probably rendered me inconsolable after a while.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
Not only was I not using a cell phone, I didn't even have one on me at the time. Kid was just fishing.
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online · 2 pts · 1y
Oh shit! Same with me with PCs, I used to play RTS with that one mythical ancient Greece game
trigonated@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Age of Mythology?
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online · 1 pts · 1y
YEAAAHHH
SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 1y
I had this only happen once in a doctor's waiting room. "Sorry, it's a work phone. Can't risk it." Then they went to ask someone else.
I have some rude thoughts about parents that allow their kids to do this to strangers.
I now carry toy cars in my bag and give them out to kids who seem restless in grocery stores, waiting rooms, etc. It's fun. (:
x4740N@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
Yotsuba
webpack@ani.social · 4 pts · 1y
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Especially in Shinji's case. Get in the
robotexistential world-ending crisis, Shinji!cactus_head@programming.dev · 1 pts · 1y
You would get that question nowadays for the most part, now Every child has their phone or tablet not including console's