Honestly, if I'm out eating dinner with someone. My phone vibrates, I will check it. If it's important, sure, I'll respond to it right away, if it's not, I would leave it until we're done or whenever I have time.
I don't understand why people can't do that. I know so many people who just STARE at their phone the entire time while we're hanging out, that pisses me off.
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I love cellphones. I couldn't live without mine.
I don't care if people check once in a while. I do, but if i'm eating with someone not in a fast food joint i would appreciate it if they wouldn't be staring at their phone every 3 minutes.
i dont disagree, but thats not quite what i was reading from the posts. habernac claims dinner time is not the time of place for a phone and i challenge that position.
Honestly, if I'm out eating dinner with someone. My phone vibrates, I will check it. If it's important, sure, I'll respond to it right away, if it's not, I would leave it until we're done or whenever I have time.
I don't understand why people can't do that. I know so many people who just STARE at their phone the entire time while we're hanging out, that pisses me off.
yes, this is the scenario i am talking about. totally reasonable.
of course if someone is being loud or cant take their face out of their phone its disturbing. however, a casual glance or momentary check isnt anyone else's business and Mr "i turn my phone off guy" shouldnt be so judgemental.
This is a major pet peeve of mine. I wish people would just put their ****ing phones down. I don't mind if someone shoots off a short text, or answers a call if it's important, but people who are glued into their phone or are texting someone while I'm talking really annoy me. Context is important obviously, but really if I'm hanging out with someone the focus should be on the person you are physically with.
None of them piss me off as much as people who won't give me the respect of talking to me when placing an order at work. If you just walk up to the cashier, quickly say your order, and go back to your phone, you are an ***hole.
Agree with the context and depends who I'm with crowd.
A more formal setting like a date, or dinner with clients; the phone is away. Sometimes I'll say excuse me to check in on a vibrate or answer an important call, but never glued to it with texts.
A more informal setting with a bunch of buddies, I'm a little more free wheeling with my phone use and don't mind the same from them.
The interesting thing, is that it seems the people with the least important calls/texts are the one's who are the worst at this. They've talking about nothing important at all, yet can't stop sending stupid small talk texts.
I saw a guy surfing the web on his iPhone during a date the other day. Talk about ######y. The girl didn't seem to have much self-esteem, so maybe it got broski laid.
I don't really mind if it's with friends as long as it's not constant. Dates, I'll say something. I used to be bad about it myself, but I've learned.
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I was speaking in reference to Slava's idea of restaurants blocking phone calls. Not real life.
Surely some others here leave their phones in their car or at the office sometimes when they go for a meal? I can't possibly be the only one. I have no idea what kind of job related emergency would require you to be available 24/7 and not be able to not answer your phone for an hour....if such a thing exists then you should likely jot be sitting down for a meal though.
I don't think that people should ignore life/death phone calls at all, so let's just get that out of the way. But how many of those calls are we really talking about? 1/10,000? I've yet to experience one personally, thankfully.
We've all seen a couple people sitting at a table looking at their phones instead of talking to the people they're sitting with....it's ridiculous.
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Surely some others here leave their phones in their car or at the office sometimes when they go for a meal? I can't possibly be the only one. I have no idea what kind of job related emergency would require you to be available 24/7 and not be able to not answer your phone for an hour....if such a thing exists then you should likely jot be sitting down for a meal though.
If you are dealing crack or sucking **** for a living, you should probably be available 24/7... if you are a true professional that is.
Yeah, people who use their phones during a meal drive me up a wall too. I mean I get checking it when you first sit down, and maybe once during the meal, but anything after that is rude. Unless your waiting for an emergency or important call, put it away.
There are a lot of people who are always on call for work. That doesn't mean they have to constantly be playing with their phone. If my phone rings and is work related I excuse myself and answer it outside of the restaurant. Like the OP, this is something that RGMG
I have no idea what kind of job related emergency would require you to be available 24/7 and not be able to not answer your phone for an hour....if such a thing exists then you should likely jot be sitting down for a meal though.
My family was having a meal with some family friends and they were talking about their son, who is a doctor. I believe they said that he's the ER medical chief or something along those lines in a hospital in the US. There are days where he is working, some when he's on call and others when he's not working at all.
From the way they described it and how I understood it is that, he is working more than he is not with him being on shift + being on call. Getting called in while being on call doesn't happen a lot. There have also been times when he wasn't working that he's been called in because of a major emergency situation.
Whether someone lives or dies could depend on him making it to the hospital as soon as he possibly can.
Such a thing does exist. If they do what you suggest, he would almost never to be able to have a sit down meal since he might get called at anytime.
