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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JoeBlank" data-source="post: 2739403" data-attributes="member: 1806">People have become hypersensitive about cell phones. As others have mentioned, it may have been a little rude of your wife to have a conversation on her cell phone, but this was only rude to you and her other dining companions. As long as her voice was truly at normal level, it did not affect the other customers at all. I agree with those who do not answer the phone during meals. If I am out, I will check my cell phone shortly after, during a pause in conversation, to see if it might have been something urgent. If a voicemail was left, I might excuse myself from the table to listen to the the voicemail and decide whether to return the call. But this is true of any phone, not just my cell phone. We do not answer the house phone during meals at my house.Many of my relatives now realize that we rarely answer the phone, and they seem to consider this rude. It seems that people believe that when your phone rings you have an obligation to answer it. If I am talking to my wife or children, watching a movie or some other show, reading a book, or posting to ENW, it may not be a convenient time for me to hold a telephone conversation. I will check the phone at the first opportunity to see who called and whether they left a voicemail. Then I will decide when to call them back. If they choose not to answer at that time that is certianly their right, and I will be happy to leave a return message.</blockquote>

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