To be pissed off?

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Had some friends come over last night for dinner. 4 ladies in total moved into the lounge after dinner for a chat, topics were the usual bar some baby chat as two of us are new mothers. Mid conversation one of the group pulled out her phone and started browsing the internet as we were obviously boring her.

Am I dramatic for thinking that's really rude and antisocial?

And it wasn't a quick check which is fine of course!

Idk, baby talk if you don't have a baby is dull as anything. Had you been talking about this topic all night?
Maybe she was bored or felt excluded, new mums can be a little self and baby obsessed to those that don't have kids yet.
Maybe she is trying for a baby unsuccessfully and the talk upset her?
Lots of options really

Why didn't she go home if she was bored?

I went to a baby shower where the expectant mum spent most of her time on her phone. Luckily her DM was hosting, and had much better manners.

I assume it was mid baby conversation and the one with the phone is childless?

To be honest, I don't blame her. If she doesn't have kids and you're all talking about babies, she was probably bored to tears

If she's a friend I would have just asked if she was ok or tell her in a jokey way to put her phone away and attempted to include her in conversation.

YANBU. How rude!

She might have a mobile addiction.

Was there any attempt to change the subject from her prior to the phone usage? Had she been ignored before this?

YANBU.

Even if she was bored by the conversation topic, you don't take your phone out and start browsing. It's extremely rude.

To be fair, baby talk does bore some people. I have children (one of which is a baby) and detest baby talk, labour talk, pregnancy talk.

New mums can be utterly boring and she likely felt excluded as well. You could have kept babies off the agenda for the night so that all could enjoy.

I don't blame her!

Other people's baby talk bores me to tears.

If she's childless then I don't blame her, actually tbf I have two DC but babytalk bores the fuck out of me...

Talking about babies is really fucking boring. Did you make any effort to include her in the conversation?

Is she a parent?
Had the parents been discussing their children for the majority of the time?

another who agrees that baby [and child talk for me at least] bores me rigid after the first ten minutes, but anyone messing about on a phone is a rude imo in these situations.

Is it possible she is having fertility issues? If that was the case then lots of baby talk might have been really hard to hear so she may have needed to tune out for a few mins.

Baby talk bores me rigid. Nothing to do with being childless. I have children. But I also have other interests. I go out to escape kids.

Where were the men- did they go the smoking/snooker room?

YANBU it was rude. Only reason to get your phone out in such circumstances are a quick check to see if youve had a text (from dc home alone or babysitter or others you may be carer for) or to use the internet to solve a problem / debate you are having amongst you.

It's a bit PA to make a point of taking your phone out, but as I wasn't there I can't say whether she was justified in feeling miffed off with the conversation.

Were all four of you involved in talking to each other about mutual interests, or was it just one or two of you shouting pissed nonsense at each other?

How many minutes was she on her phone for? I don't mind people having a quick check of their emails etc if we're in a group. Any longer than 5 mins and I'd be tempted to lean over to see what she's up to!

YANBU. But given some of the replies, it's obviously not unusual. I'd be really pissed off if someone I was with did this but there are quite clearly a lot of rude twats about. Should we all pull our phones out when the conversation doesn't suit us?

Is it as rude as an OP not coming back?

That's you told OP.

But it's the clique wot dun it lol.