"Anecdote" Is Not the Singular of "Data" ...

... but anecdotes can still be significant, and at the very least interesting. Here's an anecdote.I went to the public library today to get out of the house, do some work, see some friends. I set up my laptop on a table, near another table where a neatly dressed older (mid-60s, I guess) white man was working with his laptop and a scanner. He got my attention because his cell phone kept going