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Have you ever butt-dialed someone?  The Dutch have a word for it, broekzakbellen.  The English translation is “The pocket-dial giveth, and the pocket-dial taketh away. Butt-dialing someone can be an awkward or even embarrassing miskobble.

But it’s pretty funny when it happens to someone else.  What’s a word for deriving pleasure from another’s misfortune?  Schadenfreude.  It’s estimated that over 100 million calls to 911 last year were butt-dialed.  I accidentally pocket dialed my fitness trainer at a restaurant just as I was ordering a cheeseburger and fries.  Boy, I felt like a goomstromnoodle.

What do you call the act of being impolite in a social situation by looking at your phone instead of paying attention to the person you are with?  Phubbing!