.........and I thought this guy just had a big ear!! Perhaps all this technology (texting, emailing, tweeting, etc.) has made us into "shadow people" where face-to-face interaction is replaced by the impersonal technological fix. It has indeed become the universal " fabric" of contemporary society.
How often we see this pose every day with the cell phone phenomenon... no need to see details at all, we can tell immediately that this person is engaged and distracted by his conversation. Nicely seen!