amy rocks, okay?

THIS IS FABULOUS and I do hope you partake one day. Cheers, friends!  (from Kempt .) We usually take a pretty hard line against  phones at dinner , but a new trick just popped up that gives us hope for the future. It’s called  a phone stack , and it’s a buzzing, flashing reminder of every phone-etiquette rule the world seems to have forgotten. It works like this: as you arrive, each person places their phone facedown in the center of the table. (If you’re feeling theatrical, you can go for a stack like this one, but it’s not required.) As the meal goes on, you’ll hear various texts and emails arriving… and you’ll do absolutely nothing. You’ll face temptation—maybe even a few involuntary reaches toward the middle of the table—but you’ll be bound by the single, all-important rule of the phone stack. Whoever picks up their phone is footing the bill. It’s a brilliant piece of social engineering, masquerading as a bar game. It takes the phone out of the pocke...