Get a life!

[cinema guy]

Me and sonme friends went out for a meal last night. Peri-peri chicken, lovely!
We sat and watched in some amazement as a family of three - dad, mum and teenage daughter, sat down and teenage daughter put her lap top on the table, set up a mouse and proceeeded to play The Sims throughout their meal.

[katie kaboom]

Wow, and i thought i was a hardcore Sims addict, but even i'm not THAT bad.

[protege]

Damn... I like my video games as much as the next guy...but I'm nowhere near that bad. The only time I'd ever take a laptop to a restaurant...would be if I had work to do.

[Soulstealer]

There have been meals with family members I don't like very much where I've been tempted to do that or turn on the mp3 player or read the book in my purse. I never actually did it because I have a sneaking suspicon I would've been told to walk home.

[Toujin]

Sometimes I bring my Nintendo DS with me when going places, and this includes restaraunts. However, I don't play it the whole time! And even gamers like myself enjoy getting out of the house every so often to enjoy non-gaming activities...

It sounds like this girl was an outright addict.

[RetailWorkhorse]

I take my DS with me, too (Damned Wi-fi! I want a friend-code, dammit!). And since i keep Tetris with me....Mom's generally the one playing my DS by the end of the night.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

As much as I love hanging out on my laptop, I'm not about to take it out to dinner.

Sometimes a break can do a person good, ya know.

[fireheart]

If she loves her laptop so much why doesn't she marry it?

And for me, I'll usually take my iPod or a book if I'm going somewhere where I'll get bored easily. Laptop only comes along if I need to finish something for uni.

[dalesys]

If she loves her laptop so much why doesn't she marry it?

I expect there are a plethora of USB devices to fill that need.

[tropicsgoddess]

I would never do that with other people around, unless it was a starbucks or the library. My parents are old school and no way would that happen around them.

[JoitheArtist]

I am well-known for my passionate hatred of The Sims. Why?

Because when I was in college, and desperately trying to reach out to other people, I would ask my Sims-addicted roommates if they wanted to hang out that evening, get coffee or whatever. They'd happily agreed, and spend the entire damn night playing that stupid game. I have really low self-esteem as it is, and being passed over in favor of little unintelligible computer-generated people really did not help that...Grrrr. Stupid Sims.

[Munkie]

I can't understand The Sims...

my laptop only comes with me to work if i have a 3+ hour wait ahead of me after work. (My roommate and I work at the same location, just different companies and different hours.)

[blas]

When I was a kid and Sim City was popular, I could play that game for hours....sometimes baby brother and I would play Mario and Duck Hunt all night long on weekends.....

But nowadays I pretty much hate games. I played one of the first versions of The Sims probably about 10 years ago or so and it just irritated me.

[wagegoth]

I only played Sim City 2000 and once the arcologies launched into space I quit.

[KorporateKitty]

Mmmm, peri-peri chicken! There is a Pirate-themed Restaurant over in MD that has that, it is quite delish!