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Message: <blockquote data-quote="amethal" data-source="post: 2739006" data-attributes="member: 22784">Since the thread on dealing with disruptive kids was so popular, I thought I'd try and find out what people think of this one.Recently, my wife and I were dining out with some friends of ours in a restaurant. My wife's phone rang, and she answered it. She then had a conversation, in a normal voice, with the person on the other end. It made no difference to the noise level, given that she'd previously been having a conversation at the same volume with the three of us who were there.Personally, had it been my phone I would have stepped outside to answer it. Do you think she was rude not to?There were only two other customers. The topic of their conversation turned to how rude my wife was by answering her phone. They kept to that topic for several minutes. As we were sitting five feet away in an otherwise empty restaurant, I could hear it quite clearly, but they did not approach us to complain.If you do think it is rude to make a phone call in a restaurant, do you think it is a worse offense to discuss other dinners, in their earshot, in a disparaging manner? (I do, but since it was my wife they were criticising I am clearly biased  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )</blockquote>