Timeout Philosopher Pillows

"Trust me kiddo, even donkey's years fly by way too fast..."

"They communicate through clicks and taps."

"According to my phone, society is on the brink of collapse, but, according to our living room, things seem pretty O.K."

'Water cooler's really busy this time of day,'

Childhood Screen Addict

Children's games and technology

"Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock."

"Sorry for the wait - I hope it wasn't too long."

'Time-outs might have more meaning when I learn to tell time.'

"You seem very remote."

"As always he found a way to duck out of working overtime!"

Trust your instinct...listen to that little haunting voice that gives you subtle messages...'call in sick.'

'I suppose you're wondering why you're not on it!'

"Sometimes I wish they'd never perfected setless television."

"All the poetry I have inside me is being eaten by my vampire phone."

"If I ever feel that life's moving too fast, I just stand in the prescriptions queue..."

'Please stand by. You have temporarily lost your picture. Broadcasting will resume when you have finished your homework.'

'Half past zen.'

'All I hope for is that the weekdays don't ruin my weekend.'

"I took your advice and went on a strict month-long diet, but I only lost 30 days."

"If space-time has four dimensions, we can deduce that screen time is the grand unifying theory of everything."

"Mom wasn't impressed with my suggestion that we 'agree to disagree'."

Shaker Timeouts

First Church: Today's Sermon - Sinners Looking At Their Smartphones Instead of Listening To The Sermon Will Go Straight To Hell.

Train Arrivals

Mum sitting in play pen while kids run riot.

'Rumor has it, Beegley, that you don't smoke - you just like to get outside to goof off...'

"Don't let the new boss catch you having a cigarette break...there's a rumour he watches his staff like a hawk!"

"Either you give up all that unhealthy stuff and live another 30 years or you go on as before, have a blast for about 10 or 11 years and then die happy, satisfied and drunken."

'Have you got the time?'

Assisted suicide.

"Beats hanging around the water cooler."