There are five rules to the game: 1) Game starts after everyone has ordered 2) Phones are placed face down on the table 3) First person to crack and flip over their phone to check a text or feed loses 4) If someone is unable to resist his smartphone's siren's song, he's responsible for picking up the check.
5) If no one falters, everyone is a winner and pays their own portion of the bill.
This seemed like the perfect thing to break out for my husband's 50th Birthday Brunch. With a table full of family and variety of phones I knew the temptation to withdraw to our phones was too great.
As soon as everyone sat down the rules were explained with a series of groans, one by one the phones came out and put face down on the table (we opted not to stack). As phones started ringing the pain was evident. Waiters started noticing and spreading the game around. Some offered looks of amazement but mostly words of support.
The results? No one caved and Mom paid the bill.
