The conversation cut off by another person’s telephone ringing. The voice that trails away as eyes and brain tunnel into a screen. It’s annoying when you’re the victim, but then, don’t you do the same thing yourself? You’re in a real place with someone who means a great deal to you, say having lunch with a close friend or colleague or reading a book to a child. To all appearances, you’re present and fully engaged. But your attention is provisional, awaiting the next summons from beyond. A faint vibration or beep is all it takes and off you go.
p. 52, Hamlet’s Blackberry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age, William Powers
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event in which participants share excerpts from their current reads; it is hosted by MizB of ShouldBeReading.
The above is why I keep my cellphone turned off and only check it in the evenings. To everything its place and time..
Reading Freely 
Man, I try not to be that way, but I know I do it. It drives me INSANE when someone breaks off a coversation to answer a text.
Here's my teaser.
Interesting thought. My teasers are from Dearly, Beloved by Lia Habel and Run the Risk by Lori Foster. Happy reading!
Texting is the height of rudeness, IMO…when otherwise engaged, anyway.
Thanks for sharing…
Here's MY TUESDAY MEMES POST
Oh, I agree! So rude!
Here's my post:
http://collettaskitchensink.blogspot.com/2012/09/teaser-tuesday-queen-of-waves-92512.html
Colletta
Wow…fantastic teaser. So well written…grabbed me!!
Here is my teaser from MURDER TAKES TIME by Giacomo Giammatteo. It was GOOD…just finished it yesterday.
http://silversolara.blogspot.com/2012/09/teaser-tuesday-925.html
Excellent teaser! And I'm so glad to know I'm not the only one on the planet who dares to turn off a cellphone!