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<blockquote data-quote="DreadPirateMurphy" data-source="post: 2741930" data-attributes="member: 20715"><p>Talking on the phone (cell or otherwise) is not rude. What is rude would be:</p><p></p><p>- ignoring your dinner companions,</p><p>- being disruptive to others in the vicinity.</p><p></p><p>If I get a call while I'm talking to someone, I check the number, and if it is urgent/important (e.g., the doctor, or somebody I'm meeting later), I say, "Excuse me, I need to get this." Then I try to make the call as brief as possible. Otherwise, I ignore it.</p><p></p><p>Talking on your cell on a train is not rude unless you are so tightly packed that you're speaking directly next to the ears of other passengers, or you are being loud and boisterous and/or using inappropriate language.</p><p></p><p>Talking in a fast food restaurant, diner, etc., is the same. Calls in nicer restaurants should be kept brief. Many really nice restaurants ask you to turn off your cell phone. I still remember the maitre dis at <em>Comme Chez Soi</em> in Brussels rushing onto the floor to find the offender who dared let his cell phone ring at the table.</p><p></p><p>Taking a call in a theater of any kind is grounds for summary execution. Letting one ring is grounds for stoning. Letting it ring repeatedly deserves stoning followed by execution.</p><p></p><p>Talking on your cell without a headset while you are driving is dangerous and foolish. I cannot count the number of people I have seen driving too slowly, or weaving, or ignoring light changes because they have their hand to their ear, mouth in motion. If you think you are capable of doing it safely, you are fooling yourself. I have done it myself a few times, and each time has convinced me further that it is a bad idea.</p><p></p><p>In any event, your wife was probably minimally rude, at worst. The people at the other table were very rude -- they acted as if you weren't really there, rather than dealing with you in a civil fashion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DreadPirateMurphy, post: 2741930, member: 20715"] Talking on the phone (cell or otherwise) is not rude. What is rude would be: - ignoring your dinner companions, - being disruptive to others in the vicinity. If I get a call while I'm talking to someone, I check the number, and if it is urgent/important (e.g., the doctor, or somebody I'm meeting later), I say, "Excuse me, I need to get this." Then I try to make the call as brief as possible. Otherwise, I ignore it. Talking on your cell on a train is not rude unless you are so tightly packed that you're speaking directly next to the ears of other passengers, or you are being loud and boisterous and/or using inappropriate language. Talking in a fast food restaurant, diner, etc., is the same. Calls in nicer restaurants should be kept brief. Many really nice restaurants ask you to turn off your cell phone. I still remember the maitre dis at [I]Comme Chez Soi[/I] in Brussels rushing onto the floor to find the offender who dared let his cell phone ring at the table. Taking a call in a theater of any kind is grounds for summary execution. Letting one ring is grounds for stoning. Letting it ring repeatedly deserves stoning followed by execution. Talking on your cell without a headset while you are driving is dangerous and foolish. I cannot count the number of people I have seen driving too slowly, or weaving, or ignoring light changes because they have their hand to their ear, mouth in motion. If you think you are capable of doing it safely, you are fooling yourself. I have done it myself a few times, and each time has convinced me further that it is a bad idea. In any event, your wife was probably minimally rude, at worst. The people at the other table were very rude -- they acted as if you weren't really there, rather than dealing with you in a civil fashion. [/QUOTE]
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