On Tuesday, August 21, 2007, Rhonda Bracey wrote:
> Personally, I'd turn OFF the phone as soon as I got to the restaurant
> and all the parties had arrived. I *may* leave it on if someone in the
> group hadn't turned up or was running late, just in case I needed to
> call them or vice versa ("Where are you?"). But as soon as everyone is
> there, the phone goes OFF. Period.
>
> Is that just me?
No.
I get very annoyed when I am in a social situation like that and
someone doesn't turn off their phone. I have a friend who I dearly
love, but she will take calls, make calls, or check her blackberry for
messages when we are out to dinner. I find it rude. Here you are
supposedly engaged in a conversation with *me* but apparently,
your mind is on something else or you are allowing yourself to be
interrupted by something/someone else. Next time, please, take
your phone to dinner and I'll stay home with a nice book & my cat.
Sometimes when my phone rings at home, I <gasp!> do not answer
it. Especially if it is dinner time -- we have a "no phone calls" rule at
dinner. If it rings, well there's an answering machine to take care of
it. In a *real* emergency I'd like to think the caller has sense enough
to leave a message.
Really, there is very little in life that is that important for the average
guy. I read an article today about a man who was hit by a train
because he had his head down looking at his cell phone.
(Apparently he looked up and waited on one train, but then looked
back down and walked right out in front of the other). How tragic. I'm
sure whatever it was on his phone that had his attention, it wasn't
worth his life.
Dana
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