GENIUS IDEA ALERT! “The Phone Stack”

Text message: YOU PICKED UP THE PHONE FIRST – SO YOU PAY, SUCKA. Bwah ha ha! (Photo: KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images)

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It’s a new “game” that keeps people from texting during lunch or dinner! I think it just looks sad when you see a table of people at dinner, and none of them are talking to each other because they’re all texting. So I have to call this idea GENIUS..

It’s a new game called “The Phone Stack” . . . and it’s a BRILLIANT way to keep everyone from texting, emailing, or staring at their phones during a meal.

When you go out to eat with your friends or family, everyone puts their phone in a pile in the center of the table, face down. As the phones buzz, beep, and ring throughout the meal, no one’s allowed to grab theirs to check on it.

AND . . . if someone can’t resist and grabs their phone, they have to pick up the check. The ENTIRE check.

Uh, uh, uh...don't touch that pile! (Photo: ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)

The moral: ’tis better to take mega bites of your food than megabytes on your phone. I made that up. Clever, eh? Of course.

A 20-year-old blogger in Ventura, California named Stephie is getting the credit for coming up with the game. She posted about it on her blog six days ago, and it’s BLOWING UP.

She says, quote, “The basic premise is to just get people open to the idea of staying active and attentive to one another.” HUMAN INTERACTION? What’s that? lol

Elie Ayrouth is a writer at the website Foodbeast.com. She says it’s, quote, “one of the coolest pieces of socially engineered live gaming I’ve ever heard of.”

Here’s a seventeen second video of a moron (random idiot) talking about what happened when he took a text during dinner. He, too, should have played The Phone Stack. ~JZ.