It’s time to curb your enthusiasm for sharing emojis, photos, cartoons and just plain words dispatched nimbly with our texting thumbs. Restraint is in order, at least, while in the crosswalk.

The ban on texting or using other electronic devices in the crosswalk is now law. But before it takes effect Oct. 25, city officials allowed three months for public education.

Watching whatever public service announcements and materials are released would be a good investment of time to break the habit. But mainly, the text-addicted need to just go cold turkey. Practice makes perfect.

All eye on Hirono’s Senate floor speech

Before a bill to repeal part of the Affordable Care Act was defeated on the Senate floor, those watching TV took in, with rapt attention, U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono’s emotional plea to vote it down.

Hirono, battling stage 4 kidney cancer, acknowledged her GOP colleagues for their support at her diagnosis, but then challenged them to explain their current stance.

“I know how important health care is,” she said. “What I don’t get is why every single senator doesn’t know that.”

Hirono never has been known as an attention-grabber, but on Thursday, her audience hung on to every word.