The two girls sat on the park bench staring at their phones.
Both were busy in their own, private, little worlds. They switched effortlessly from app to app, posting updates and tweeting endless LOLs and WTFs, occasionally messaging each other.
Their unspoken communication continued as a car smashed into a lamppost just ten feet behind them. Neither girl noticed.
One girl took a selfie for no other reason than she felt like it and uploaded it to a photo-sharing site. Her friend next to her commented on it within seconds using the complex hieroglyphics of emojis.
A passing jogger collapsed to the ground, clutching his chest. Someone went to his aid before phoning an ambulance which arrived and took him away.
The girls didn't notice and continued to stare at their phones.
Not too far from where they were sitting, people who were enjoying a picnic on the grass ran for cover as a small aircraft plummeted towards them. It hit the ground and was engulfed in flames as it kaboomed, making the park shake.
The girls still stared at their phones.
After a few minutes one of them looked at the other.
"It's so boring around here," she said.
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