Phubbing & Don't Talk About Experiences

Are you a "phubber"? Dangerous Dave talks about phubbing, people who scroll instead of paying attention to the person they are with. Plus things everyone experiences and nobody talks about.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Please sip deeper in the din with dangerous Day. Well,
you know, the term fubbing is going viral again, and
if you forgot what it means, you're probably fubbing when
I told you. Officially, it's when you snub the person
you're hanging out with by staring at your phone. There's
ways you can avoid being a fubber. By the way,
put the phone out of sight when you're with somebody.

(00:20):
Even having it on the table can make a person
feel ignored. Set small boundaries. Put the phone away during meals,
for certain hours of the day, and be honest about it.
If you need to check something, say it instead of
just picking up your phone and silently scrolling fining. Notice
when others do it to you, and remember that feeling.
That's the energy you're giving off when you do it

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to somebody else. Bottom line, text can wait. The person
in front of you shouldn't have to. I know I
was out with a friend having a beer one night,
actually one afternoon anyway, I had a text and I
had to look at it. He got so mad at
me because I picked up my phone, and I'm like,
at the time, I was operations manager and I had
to answer all phone calls. I was on call twenty

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four to seven. Now, if you don't hear back from
me right away, it's not that I'm ignoring you. I
might be with somebody more important. You know how you
can spend a celly amount of time walking in circles
around your bed trying to put a fitted sheet on
by yourself. Of course you do. We've all done it,
but we don't talk about it. There's other relatable list

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of items everybody's experience, but nobody talks about, I guess
for obvious reasons. Some of the highlights include when you
have a bag of clothes you're going to donate eventually,
but first you want to drive around with them in
your car for a few months. When you take your
two days to get through twenty five percent through a book,
another three months to get through the halfway point and

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finish the rest in one night. When you get a
notification of something that was delivered and you can't think
straight till you get home to put it inside. When
you get the thrill out of the slow car in
front of you finally turning off so you can show
everybody behind you it wasn't you holding up the line.
Other random things. Everybody experien vperiences, but nobody talks about
when you find an odd kinship of a friend that

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you text at two o'clock in the morning and they
immediately respond. When you cut your nails and immediately have
to deal with one of those stubborn new cottomin seals
or a tight aluminum can tab. Yeah, you can't get
it open when you fart in magically, your stomach ache
disappears when it's late. You don't want to make too
much noise with one of those excessively loud, clear plastic

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takeout clamshell containers. When you experience that one weird swallow,
you know, the one that confirms that you're going to
have the flu or a cold. How about when you
swallow and it's a big air bubble and it feels
like your esophagus is going to explode in all the
way down to your chest. To me, they can't for
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