Mommy, Mommy, Mommy

The television show "Family Guy" has a commercial that I find very funny. The baby, Stewie, wants to get his mother's attention. He starts saying, mom, mom, mum, mim, mimmy ,mummy, lois, mom and continues on and on until she screams, "Whatttttt". He then responds, "Hi". All that he wanted was her attention. I saw this happen in real life at a McDonald's last week. A young mother was sitting in the booth with her two young sons. The boys were chattering to each other about a picture on the wall next to their table. It looked like cracked glass and each child was saying that they did not crack it. They were too small to realize that the picture was an illusion. They thought it was something they had done. They kept saying, "mom, mom, mommy, mommy, mom" and she never looked away from her cell phone. She was either texting someone or playing a word game and was blocking out everything. It took a good 4 minutes until she acknowledged her children's voices. She quickly answered them and went right back to the phone. Good thing no one was choking. And we wonder why America is like it is.