to be put out when a kid fields a phone call to a parents..

[lumbago]

with " we are having dinner at the moment"....

The parents may have told the child to tell the caller that?

eh?

yes
i dont want to be fobbed off
grr ,might be life or death

just dont answer ffs

YABU, It is perfectly reasonable for a person who lives in the house - whether a child or an adult - to answer the phone and explain that whoever can't come to the phone as they are eating dinner right now.

I don't understand the problem tbh!

Yes that is a good point, they shouldn't answer. Are you going to ring back?

I would always answer the phone and not just let it ring off.
But would say something similar if we were busy, or ask DD to if she answered.
Can't see the problem - you just call back later or ask them to return your call when they are free/

YABU kids aren't second class citizens, they're entitled to answer a telephone and give a message

Why shouldn't they answer? and surely if it was life or death you would say that and the phone would be passed on!

YABU

You're not being fobbed off... they were having their dinner??

Was it life or death then?

You are easily 'put out' lumbago

it's quite difficult to answer the phone carrying a hot pot or putting a toddler into a highchair - DCs old enough to answer the phone are helping the parents

Same here Maryz. We have caller display, so they don't answer it if it's not for them. it never is.

Its all about BBM apparently.

they probably thought jeez its that pain in the arse yet again, ffs tell her we are eating, cant be bothered listening to her moaning on for another hour and you know once she is on you cant get rid of her :(

Jeez yes YABU. If in serving diviner ds1 will answer and say we are having tea ad will call back. Firstly because of it is life and death the caller would presumably say and secondly, that the caller knows we are home and available in a short while.

I do this as we dont have a working answerphone and I feel the need to check it isnt an emergency.

Seems reasonable to me.

YABU If it is life or death then you just say so - I'm sure dinner would be interupted in an emergancy!
Nothing wrong with saying x can't come to the phone as eating dinner.........

The only people that would be likely to call about a life or death situation that can't wait for me to finish my dinner would be people that know my children well enough to tell them it couldn't wait and they needed to get me now.

Errr..? If they were eating it was perfectly reasonable not to come to the phone. If is was life or death I'm sure you could have told the child that you were very sorry to interrupt but you really did need to speak to mum.

Who were you calling?

You.

None of your business !

Oh god it's that pain in the arse lumbago

FFS just get rid of him

....insert small innocent child to deflect

Whenever I deign to phone someone they are always delighted to hear my dulcet tones

.... Perhaps it's something you did OP ?

[passive aggressive]

Lovely, no wonder they don't want to talk to you I think you made it all our business when you asked us about it

I was just wondering (showing some interest) why you were so put out in this particular instance, as it seems an OTT reaction to me.

What is so sacred about eating? I just answer the phone if it's someone i would like to speak to. Eating can wait.