Knowing my specialization in Information Overload, people around me tend to share stories from their own observations of people submitting to obsessive reading of email 24×7.

For example: one friend reports being at an airport, seeing a family with young children waiting in line with their luggage on a cart. The mother was holding on to the cart, and trying to keep an eye on the kids. The father was banging on a Notebook doing email… (I can imagine that despite this fine proof of the feminine capacity for multitasking, his wife would have preferred to share the burden with him).

For example: a CEO I know marveled at the time he saw in a restaurant a business man dining with what was clearly a client. Then this guy’s Blackberry buzzed in his pocket, and he attended to it even though the conversation with the client must have been far more important.

For example… but I’m sure you have many examples of your own… let’s collect them! Can you share with the rest of us in the comments? The most outrageous case – and you’re welcome to indicate your choice – gets an honorable mention!