To take an iPad to a Nice Meal on Sunday?

[EngSun]

Football related, obviously.

We've got a very fancy day planned on sunday.

It's not changeable.

We will most likely be eating at kick off time, not quite sure of timings.

Even it we're not eating at that time, we're at the table till 9.30.

Wibu to take some means of watching the game?

I'm sure many of the other people in the room will have some means of following the game, so it would be impossible to hide from any scoring. I think it'd be impossible to just record it and watch it at home at 10.30ish.

We'll be discreet as possible, and obviously not the only people at the meal interested.

Wibu?

It’s wholly inappropriate and very rude.

I wouldn’t watch it but if there was an opportunity, I would keep checking the score on my phone.

Go for a meal or watch the football. Doing both is plain rude.

I wouldn’t and I’m looking forward to final

Can you postpone the dinner?

There’s really no point in going on the train trip if you’re going to do that, it’s just money down the drain.

However, if it’s just you and DP and you both want to watch the football, you could watch it on silent as long as you don’t annoy everyone else who is trying to relax and enjoy the scenery with loud gasping, exclaiming etc.

Just don't go. If the football is more important to you than the event and the people you are going with then own that, be honest and cancel.

If there is, as you describe it, 'a very fancy day' planned on Sunday, it sees fair to assume it is a very special occasion for somebody. They will have taken, time, trouble and expense to arrange, and presumably it is to celebrate a very special occasion.
Is it fair to ruin the occasion through constant looking at your phones ext thereby encouraging others to do the same? I am with you in being excited about the final but I am sure that whoever arranged the occasion never expected to be in competion with England getting this far. If you have accepted an invitation to this event, then I am afraid than in common courtesy and good manners you must ignore the match until the day/occasion/meal is over.

Absolutely not. Extremely rude towards the people around you, either in your party or at surrounding tables.

Beyond rude. Just stay home & watch it.

@EngSun

It's on a train day trip.

The fancy meal's on a train? Orient Express?!

Who is he meal 'for'. If it's yourself then fine to have ipad (or phone? more discrete) on v.quietly.

If it's for someone else it depends on their attitude to the game. I'd have to go by that.

If others in the place have the game on you'll hear who scores.

@EngSun

It's on a train day trip.

So is it just your family sitting around your table and then other passengers you don't know with their own families sitting seperate

I agree that it would be ill mannered. For a fancy dinner, you should be making conversation, which brings people together. Watching football is equivalent to saying, 'I don't care about anything else except what I want to do. ' Very rude.

I thought Orient Express too!

If it’s just your party at the table and you all want to watch then I think it’s fine as long as there’s no sound on to disturb others. I doubt you’ll be the only ones.

Is this an event of your own planning or something hosted by someone else? If you just happened to book yourself a meal on a train, then take the iPad and use headphones. If it’s a birthday or an anniversary or a wedding or really any sort of event hosted by someone, leave it at home.

Who are you going with? Is it just immediate family or others?

At dinner with other people who won’t be watching? Or just dinner with your partner who will be watching?

The latter is fine, the former is absolutely not fine.

I'd cancel and watch the game.

Yes it's like Orient Express.

I've paid for 4 of us (me, DH abs another couple) to go for a special occasion that 2 out of 4 of us are celebrating.

Has been booked since October.

So I'm not being rude to the host as I am the host.

We're very capable of being discreet.

Incredibly rude. Just avoid the radio, ask people at the meal not to tell you the score and watch it on demand.

Postpone

If you can't postpone, then I'd take an iPad but let them know that's what you'll be doing.

Don't forget spare battery packs and a charge lead!

Very rude op...
Those players need your full support!!

History in the making - surely you are close enough to the other guests to bring it up?

Either stay home and watch, or go and don't watch.

Otherwise it's incredibly rude and there's no way the other couple won't notice what you're doing.

Honestly, odds are the other couple would be relieved if you cancelled. They're in an even worse bind since you're the one paying.