What did people do before smartphones to pass the time when you were bored?

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We used to interact physically with other people..

At 10pm on a weekday? I mean I get chatting to your significant other about stuff but outside of that I don’t see anything happening even if we removed phones from the equation.

You'd be surprised how many phone calls took place at that time.

Mayne talking about a show, or chatting someone up, etc. You were bored, so a phone was great.

Fair enough.

I didn’t consider a phone call from a dumb phone as human contact. Guess it goes to show how much I conflate phone with smart phone now.

Go to bed early, sleep well, wake up for a whole new day feeling refreshed.

I mean that’s not interacting with other people on a weeknight is all haha.

I don’t feel bad texting (or replying here late at night) but I wouldn’t go knock on my neighbors’s door past 8 and expect to talk to them or anything like that.