(Your phone keeps you close to the people far away, but far away from the people close to you...)
The tragedy of bad economic ideas is that once they grab hold of society's imagination, it becomes nearly impossible to persuade people to abandon them. Instead, the ideas must be disproved by experience. Thomas I. Palley, 'Financial Crisis to Stagnation' (2012)
Sat on the tram, doing my daily cryptic crossword puzzle. Next to me sat an elderly lady who was also working on her puzzle. After a while, she asked for my help: “Four letters: It's at the bottom of a bird cage and ends in ‘it’”.
"Well, that’s easy" I replied: "Grit".
“Oh.... ... I see. Could I borrow your eraser?”