To think it's rude

[FairyWand]

To go to a friends house for coffee and sit on the phone for (so far) 25 minutes.

You or her

Yes it's rude. I'd be tempted to leave the room and start doing other things

The height of rudeness.

Very rude

I think it's rude to only put a 'teaser' title on your thread to get us to open it.

I lost a friend for this.

She would come to my house for dinner and a chat and would sit with her mobile in her hand and check it literally every 2 minutes. Every single time.

I finally lost it and asked her why she was being so rude.

It's basically saying that the person whose company you're actually in is not as important as a text message/FB update from someone else.

Rude rude rude rude rude rude rude rude rude.

Depends. If there's some sort of business needing sorted out then you can make an exception. If they are just chatting to a pal about inconsequentials, then it is very rude.

I sat round my mil a few weeks ago and she ran me up the hospital to vist my dad, I was greatful for that but the 3 hours I was there (waiting for visting time) she sat on her laptop playing facebook games and hardly spoke to me. I don't know if it was rude or she just doesn't like me lol

Was only there that long because grumpy husband dropped me off b4 work

Incredibly rude! Unless it is massively urgent. If she is just chatting then I would disappear somewhere else in the house and get on with something.

It really annoys me when people do this. If I eat dinner alone at work I do check mumsnet or whatever, but if any of my colleagues start their lunch break a few minutes later and come to join me I always, always put my phone away. But then they usually get theirs out anyway, so I'm sat in silence because they're glued to their phones and I've put mine away. Same as if I join them they never put their phones away. Often there are 4 of us at a table and I'm usually the only one not looking at my phone. I do consider it very rude.

I also once got a bit cross with my husband at a children's attraction where we had taken our nephew for the day. It's a lovely place with lots to see and do but I was the one watching nephew aged 3 in the soft play, going around the play park with him, helping him put his shoes back on after going on the jumping pillow thing etc because my husband was permanently attached to his phone. I finally lost it and snapped at him to put it away. I explained that it felt like he wasn't bothered about me and our (biologically his) nephew and was more interested in his phone and that it felt very rude and hurtful. He has been a bit better since.

No was just to her friend chatting away. She came off just after I posted but still that was almost 30 minutes.