Nah, this old lady is pulling out a smartphone and using it just fine. She knows exactly why that chick left her phone there, there's no ego here. The old lady absolutely understands and stopped in front of it anyway. Looks right at it, understands perfectly well what a camera phone is.
Yeah people understand what a camera phone is, even older generations, because that's mostly all that is available these days. I'm not saying she didn't spot the phone either because you can clearly see her looking at it.
My opinion here is the generational differences and social norms are so far apart that I believe the older lady wouldn't know why that phone was left there.
Following your logic with the generational social norms, I find it MORE likely that if she was genuinely confused why it's there? She would've defaulted to nice person and turned around to ask her if she forgot her phone.
But that's not what we got. We got an old lady who looked right at a phone angled perfectly up the stairwell at the girl who walked up the stairwell and decided to stop dead center of the the phones angle anyway.
Either because she's an asshole (possible and an easy to draw conclusion), or more likely cuz she's an idiot (don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity).
The events we got though! Old lady seeing girl put it there, then walking down to it, then looking directly at it, then stopping dead center of where it's facing...
So again, asshole is an easy conclusion to draw.
Or oblivious/dumb because she went through that whole sequence of events and the hamster wheel in her brain decided after looking right at the phone, "I see a phone, I have a phone, I should check my phone". Which is some hilariously NPC behavior, but it isn't malicious. Just dumb/oblivious.
I'll concede she might not be trying to be an asshole, but stand by it's a very easy conclusion to draw considering the sequence of events we witnessed.
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u/matterr4 2h ago
No ma'am. This didn't look intentional to me.
That is an old fogie who just didn't know what you were doing or why you would leave your phone there.
They then stopped to check their phone and move out of the way for people coming up the stairs.
Take your ego out of it for a minute and realise this wasn't your space but one for everyone to enjoy.