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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jdvn1" data-source="post: 2739164" data-attributes="member: 26424">Whether or not there were other customers makes little difference. She was rude because there were other people at the table. When you're at the dinner table, the conversation should be with the people at the table. If you need to make or take a phone call, step away from the table. If there are no other people at the table, then it doesn't make much of a difference. Maybe I've spend too much time reading ettiquete books, though.Oh, certainly so. It's pretty tactless to talk about other people that way, especially if they can hear you. If I were feeling confrontational, I'd have gone up to them, "I'm sorry, if you have a problem with me or my actions, please address them to me. I didn't mean to be rude, but talking about me that way is ruder still. Thank you. Good-bye."That might have been rude too, though. I keep my phone on silent (or at least on vibrate) when I go to eat, be it at a restaurant or not. I also don't answer it unless I know it's important.</blockquote>