Or, I could just go outside...

Sometimes, I laugh at my students.  They do everything with their phones.  They ask me if it may rain that day, for example.  It goes like this: A kid is holding his phone with a frustrated/upset look on his face.  He says, "My phone battery is almost dead.  Is it supposed to rain today?"  Presumably, the precious battery should be spared the trouble of looking up a weather report.

I suggest they look on a weather website on one of the 32 computers in the room- or even look out of one of my classroom's many windows.  I have a tendency to say that sort of thing with a heavy duh tone in my voice.

I may have just done something like that.  I was standing in my own kitchen just now, wondering if my most recent Amazon package had arrived yet.  If the package was present, it would be on my front porch.  Still, standing in my kitchen, I opened the Amazon app on my phone and checked the delivery status.  Then I thought of how stupid that was.  I could look out of a window.  Or open the door.  I have turned into one of them.  As I sit writing this in a room with windows, I guess I should wonder what the weather may be like.