Pandemic phone shaming!

[frazzled]

These New Yorkers are genius ... and the article about them made me laugh out loud.

It began, as so many things do in New York City, with people who would not shut up.

After the pandemic began in March, the lines to get into a Trader Joe’s store on the Upper West Side became excessively long, with people queuing up hours before the store opened.

And as they waited, they talked. Incessantly. Not to one another, but on their phones.

“Every day these people would wake us up,” said Kyle Luker, whose brownstone window sits just above the Trader Joe’s line. “At first, I was polite and asked them to please be quiet. Then after a few days I was shouting, and my husband was like: ‘Stop it! You can’t do that.’”

So Mr. Luker and his husband, Ash Fulk, took a different tack: They, with the help of several neighbors, began jotting down some of the conversations overheard, displaying snippets of them on signs hung outside their window.

Chad,

We are so sorry your wife is leaving you. And we are SURE the “Everything but the Bagel” Seasoning will help you. But … is this really the place to discuss it? Love, #TraderJoesLineUWS



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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/nyregion/trader-joes-line-signs-nyc.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage

View all the signs here:
https://www.instagram.com/traderjoeslineuws/

[Heartstrings]

1. Gotta say...

“Everything but the Bagel” is great, not sure it’s worth queuing up for hours tho....

[MLAA]

2. Hilarious!