
There’s a guy at the next table live-streaming his dinner. WTF? You’re supposed to eat it, you moron, not film it. I’m going to go over and call him out. Whaddyamean what for? For being an grade-A idiot, of course. Nothing’s real anymore, nothing is simple pleasure. Everything has to be shared now before they know they’re having fun.
No! Get your hands off me. I’m going to ram one of those skewers where the sun don’t shine.
Now more idiots are filming the fight, making memories. And here come the cops.
Bet I make the ten o’clock news.
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Friday fictioneers is a weekly challenge set by Rochelle Wisoff Fields to write a 100-word story in response to a photo prompt. You can find other stories here

Dear Neil,
This is frighteningly truer to life than we care to admit. Good one.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks so much. Rochelle
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Bet it makes X and Bluesky…maybe TikTok.
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Probably. Thanks, James
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Yep- sounds like another day in paradise…..
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Thanks, Violet
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Fame at last!
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and so well-deserved
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That ten-minutes of fame thing has gotten way outta hand!
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Neil I love the way you circled back. I am getting sick of phones and cameras insisting on being everywhere, even as I am complicit in their omnipresence.
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Thanks so much, Lisa
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You’re welcome.
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phones should be off-limits at everybody’s table. sadly, that’s the world we live in now.
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I agree
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I always think about using a phone vicinity blocker, especially on trains where some people talk loudly into their phones, mostly niff-naff and trivia. Yes, the oblivious attitude to politeness and manners are also victims to these juvenile entitled generational cry babies.
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Youth is no excuse. Old age even less
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So funny Neil it did make me laugh – but it’s also true – why people insist on filming their food I’ve no idea🤨
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I’m glad. Thanks so much
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Nothing is for simple pleasure. Ain’t that the truth. Nicely done.
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Thanks so much, Laurie
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So very true, Neil. I’m sure a thing on bucket lists is to be the 6pm news. Well captured in your 100 words.
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Thanks so much, Fleur
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Good old modern life, never more than half a second away from being filmed at any given moment. You’d think it would keep us on our best behavior but apparently not. Great story.
-David
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Thanks so much, David
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So very true, and hilarious too.
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Thanks so much
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I like the way you brought this around, but I gotta say, this guy has anger issues. Live and let live, dude!
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Thanks so much, Dawn
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Everything is on camera these days. The worst is the movies, I hardly go anymore. The punch of the last line made me smile.
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Thanks so much
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Hahaha! So funny and sadly accurate. What a commentary.
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Thanks so much, Nancy
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