My friend called me ignorant, was I being unreasonable?

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I met my friend with the kids at soft play today for some lunch. She is my closest friend and has been for about 4/5 years, we see each other almost everyday and if we don't see each other, we at least speak on the phone daily. She's like a sister to me.

Anyways today she was telling me a story, it seemed as if the story was finished and my phone rang, it was my sister so I picked up the phone. I noticed my friend rolled her eyes at this. I literally had a two minute conversation with my sister about money she had transferred to me.

When I got off the phone, I asked my friend a question and she just continued to look away from me and not respond. Then the conversation went like this:

Me: are you just ignoring me? Haha

Friend: well you just picked up your phone when I was in the middle of speaking.

Me: I thought you were done with the story.

Friend: I wasn't and you just picked up the phone without even acknowledging it, was a bit ignorant to be honest.

Me: I'm really sorry, I honestly thought you were finished.

Friend: it's fine.

That was it dropped and the rest of the afternoon went as normal, no atmosphere or anything.

But now I've had time to think, I think my friend was a bit out of order calling me ignorant over a genuine misunderstanding. Anyone else?

OP I think some replies here are a little unfair.
I have a best friend, and we will both say to each other, mid conversation “1 sec” and answer the phone. We hand up without a word sometimes if we need to. That’s just the kind of friendship we have though.
I don’t have one friend who I would say, or would I expect them to say “excuse me do you mind if I take this?”. That’s aquatintence polite, not friend polite IMO.

Yep. You were rude, sorry to say. I would say that level of closeness has nothing to do with this, but basic manners do. You should have said ‘sorry - it’s my sister; I’ll be super quick with this call’, or the like. It is a pet hate of mine when people make their phone way more important than the person they’re with. A close friend of mine does this, and it’s so rude - I call her out on it, now.

I would have said 'Ignorant' was used correctly there. (I'm not commenting on whether the OP was or not - just the usage)

I read it as meaning - Ignorant of the rules of etiquette.

I just think it was also a bit rude and immature of her to then ignore me completely when I got off the phone

First you clearly weren't listening properly to what she is was telling you about, or you'd have known she wasn't finished. Telling her that you thought she'd finished, made that clear to her.

Then you answered your phone while she was speaking, which was rude.

Then - when the consensus on here was that you'd be rude - your initial response was that you felt you were close enough to her for this to be OK.

All of this suggests that this kind of behaviour is something you may do fairly often to her and not be aware of. It sounds to me like she's just reached the end of her tether with it.

Whats so important that it cant be texted? One of my biggest bug bears is people taking calls in the middle of a get together, unless its urgent which it very rarely is.

First you clearly weren't listening properly to what she is was telling you about, or you'd have known she wasn't finished.

Oh come on. There are plenty of times when telling a story you get to a point that looks like a conclusion where you can pause (for dramatic effect) and then say: "Well, I thought that was the end of the matter BUT...."