Mobile sodding phones

[happyhopefulmummy]

I'm absolutely fed up of people having to be surgically attached to their bloody mobiles. Just had lunch with 3 girlfriends. 2 of them had their phones on the table the entire time, kept
Picking them up, sending texts, checking Facebook, arranging their evening plans. At one point one of them
Asked me a question and then picked up her phone and started playing with it. I just wanted to ram it down her throat.

I love my iPhone, but I would never put it on the table during a meal, never use it while being sociable with others and if there really was a desperate message I needed to send, I'd go to the loo and do it.

Whatever happened to enjoying the moment?

I'm not sure it's the phones that are to blame...sounds like your friend's have no manners.

I hate mobile phones with a passion. I really don't want to be in when I'm out and I only carry one in case the school needs to contact me or a babysitter.

I agree with Worra. Sounds like something is wrong with your friends.
I've got a fancy pants phone, I only use it to make calls and, once in a navy blue moon send a text.
I would no more think of doing what you described, than I would pull my pants down and show my arse to the world.
Are they young?

I agree happyhopefulmummy. My BIL is attached to his mobile phone 24/7. He will ask me a question, then get his phone out and start surfing the web!

If I go out for lunch and my kids are in school, yes, I do put the mobile on the table as I'm a single parent so there is no-one else for them to call in an emergency (which would be rare anyway).

I would pick up if it rang, but I certainly wouldn't text or make calls whilst with other people.

Rude.

Depends.

I have a lovely employer who lets me work from home - but asks that I be contactable 9-5 by my phone - which lets me dial into my work PC (t'is vaaaairy technical!)

If it's an important thing I'll be doing during the day - doctors etc, then I will advise them and they'll avoid that time. However, a lunch with friends doesn't really count sadly unless I have physically booked a day off. It's a complicated set up, and not ideal, but does mean I have no child care costs - which I can't afford anyway.

But, on the other hand, I do tell people about this, and I don't fiddle with the phone unless I've been contacted - that I think would be rude.

None of them were on work time, none of them have that type of set up. That I could understand. They are all late twenties, I'm a year older, but would never dream of doing that.

Hate hate hate it. Hate it. Think it's funny though!! Went to my sister's after dropping off ds at school one day last week and had a cuppa. A few of her 'Mum' friends joined us and each and every one of them had sleek, black and silver iPhone thingies on the table, that tinkled, jingled and jangled constantly. It was actually quite funny! They were like another breed of person - picking up their phone, looking at it, pressing something, looking again....

Sounds very rude to me.

I don´t understand it either.

Sometimes it seems to me like showing off-"ooh look how popular I am"

YANBU

I've got a couple of friends who are otherwise great company, but just lately, they have become glued to their phones in social situations. It's starting to grate in a big way and only just the other day, DP and I were discussing the best way of handling it.

We went out recently in a group of 10 for one of their birthdays. It was all his closest friends and yet he was tapping away all night. I was like who the sod was he talking to/playing draw something with/reading about on FB when everyone's here???

It's massively rude but for some reason, some people think its socially acceptable.

I've decided I'm going to ask his DW (who is also guilty of it) whether there is something wrong with {friend} as he seems to be struggling to interact in social situations. I think she'll be so embarrassed it might put pay to it

My OH used to do it when I first met him until I pointed out how gormless he looked poring over his phone when we were with friends. It infuriates me it's so rude, and it's rude to have your phone at the table full stop IMO.

Was so embarrassing in social situations and he doesn't do FB he's just checking all the sports results every 5 minutes .

He doesn't do it so much now esp since I started getting my phone out in bed to check my FB while he wanted to do other things :)

I stopped my dh checking his phone by insisting we share the experience since we're supposed to be out together.

I am on-call when not physically at work but usually remember to say to people that I will need to check my phone from time to time and then excuse myself to do so. I hate people prioritising their virtual social life over real people. When I'm on holiday or not on-call, the phone is only on if a baby-sitting might be struggling.

I wouldn't have my phone on the table during lunch, so YANBU about that part, but you are being ridiculous about going to the loo to send a message. The reasonable thing to do there would be, if it was that desperate, to just say "excuse me, I just have to send this one message".

Yanbu, it's really irritating.

Also, all the conversations at family gatherings seem to be about apps and iphones, and then they sit next to each other playing Draw Something, which is hilarious for the rest of us to watch