Everyone heard the rising panic in her voice. The irritating chatterbox nattering away on her cell phone while in line to board our flight suddenly realized that her boarding pass was — surprise! — in the Smartphone she was talking on. She’d have to disconnect the call in order to wave her device before the optical reader. The impatient queue behind her burst into laughter, smirks and chortles as her call abruptly ended. I’m not ashamed to say I was among them.