Illustration: Christoph Niemann

When I’m at the playground with my toddler, I peek at my iPhone, which gets me dirty looks from other moms. Am I a bad parent?

Possibly. But those tsk-tsking moms have no reason to suspect so based on your texting habits.

That said, just

1582: Nobody does anything, anything at all. In fact, nobody does anything whatsoever between Oct. 4 and Oct. 15, 1582, because the 10 intervening days have simply been declared out of existence