Column: Calling our readers! Put down your cell phones, please

WORTHINGTON — The boy was maybe 8 or 9 years old and he was talking to his dad on a cell phone. I know this because I heard him say, “Dad?” We were standing in the aisle of a supermarket in front of — I don’t know — perhaps 40 feet of bags of candy. Lifesavers and gum drops and chocolate kisses.