We got a call in the morning yesterday from a friend saying she was having huge problems with her dp and could she and her young (3) daughter come and stay the night at our place to give herself and her dp some space away from each other. No problem. They arrived about 4 o'clock, and my dd(10) took her dd off to play while friend, dh and I sat about while friend expanded on her woes.
I cooked supper, I sorted bath times etc. and ran about making sure kids and friend were fine etc.
Once kids were both in bed, we got the wine out. I'm not much of a drinker, nor do I socialise much in the evenings, so this was a bit of a special occasion for me. We were having a laugh and talking about life the universe and everything, and eventually we went into the sitting room, where the kids had left the tv on and Question Time was just starting. Friend had just got a text from someone and was replying to it, so we left the tv on quietly as dh and I both wanted to watch QT, but we would have switched it off as soon as friend had finished with her phone. Well, she got completely stuck into this 'text conversation', and was bursting out laughing in response to the replies she was getting, and as she spelled out her own responses etc. Jolly good, she was having a laugh.
Then she looked up, said "Oh can't you switch off this horrible boring politics stuff and put some music on?" and went back to her texting. We switched off the tv and dh chose a cd and put it on. We sat listening, for at least another 15 mins while she busied herself with her text conversation.
I gave up and went to bed.
I thought she was being bloody rude, both for ignoring us whilst she carried on with this text conversation (must have gone on for at least half an hour), but also for complaining about the tv when she wasn't attending to either that or the cd dh put on for her. I mean, we could have carried on watching what we wanted to watch - it didn't make a blind bit of difference to her.
Or am I an old fogey, and this is what people do nowadays?