It comes as something of an unpleasant surprise that articles like this still have to be written, but if that’s the case, fine, we’ll play. Look, by now everyone that wants a cellphone has one. You can buy them off the rack at 7-Eleven for ten bucks, no questions asked, a price which, considering what a cellphone can do (when you get right down to it, it’s a pretty amazing piece of technology, remember) is nothing. It almost literally could not be easier, in 2012, to get a mobile phone. And so here’s the thing: Sending a text is not novel. Going to see a show? That’s novel, unless you’re Ben Brantley. Why then are you sitting there wondering why you can’t text during the show? IT’S A SHOW. SIT AND WATCH THE SHOW. TURN OFF THE PHONE YOU CHILD. AT LEAST WAIT UNTIL INTERMISSION. THESE TICKETS WERE EXPENSIVE. This tends to rile us a bit, so instead of us spitting more phlegm, here’s the Journal‘s Pia Catton, with a nice, structured top-10 list of reasons why you should maybe turn the phone off when you go out to the theater or wherever, without having to be prompted. (FULL ARTICLE: Pia Catton, Wall Street Journal)