No Box at the Door: celulares, jantares e uma solução de ambiente (B2)
I read your article about restaurants that ask customers to lock their phones in a box at the door, and I confess I expected to disagree with it. I run a small place with eleven tables, and I have watched, for years, families sit in complete silence while four screens glowed between the plates. Still, I will not be installing a box. Punishing adults for a habit rarely changes it, and I have no wish to police my own guests. What we did instead was cheaper and slower: better lighting, no music after nine, and tables placed close enough that conversation feels natural. Phone use dropped noticeably within a month. Nobody was asked to surrender anything. If a room is genuinely pleasant, the device in the pocket stops competing. That is a design problem, not a moral one.
Fonte: English for ALL (texto original).
No contexto da carta, a afirmação "That is a design problem, not a moral one" indica que o autor
- A) atribui o uso excessivo do celular ao ambiente do salão, e não ao caráter dos clientes.
- B) considera que apenas normas rígidas conseguem alterar hábitos já consolidados.
- C) apoia a instalação de caixas para recolher os aparelhos logo na entrada.
- D) responsabiliza as famílias por não conversarem durante as refeições.
- E) acredita que a iluminação e a música pouco influenciam o comportamento no salão.