[jebartle]

Remember the good ole days when a vendor would come to the house and give all of his attention to you.....Those days are gone....Trying to give vendors the benefit of the doubt, I know they are trying to make a living BUT taking personal calls (of little or NO importance) is RUDE!....They have lost a sale when this happens to us.

Or maybe you are the vendor or friend that have your friends captive while you "chit-chat" about nonsense.....

It is difficult to GO ANYWHERE without someone yaking about NONSENSE!...
I challenge you cell-phone addicts to go TWO days without your silly "DUMB-PHONE!....Can you do it????????



Our cell-phone is for EMERGENCIES ONLY

[Debfrommaine]

Good post, drives me nuts when I'm spending time with someone and they take calls that can wait 'til later. Rude.

[billethkid]

When we go out to dinner with whoever, I tell them we don't do cell phones at the table.
Choices given...turn it off...don't answer it....leave the table if you just must not miss one....if they talk on the phone at the table I get up and leave...they get my bill.

I know how terrible of me, however not as terrible as those who just can't seem to do without.

I do the same with vendors.

Before I retired I used to have a rule in my conference room or business gathering...your phone rings and I get it. I never had to collect very many before the word got around.

How dare I? No...no...no how dare they be so inconsiderate.

Among other things I enjoy on a cruise is there are no jabber talkers on their cell phone. How do they make it all that time?

btk

[skyguy79]

What baked the cake for me is when not too many years ago we were sitting at a diner eating when a woman no more that 6 feet away from us just had to start talking to a toddler on her phone with all the goo-goo's and gaga-gaga's that went with the rest of the baby talk! And, she just had to be loud enough for more than half the diner to hear her ridiculous conversation... if you want to call it that!

Before the conversation... During... After...

[njbchbum]

what do you all do if/when someone puts you on "hold" to take a call coming in on call waiting - hang up?

[NotGolfer]

Oh.yes! Always it's a "it's "my kids"....I "have to" get this!!! BUT it's generally the same folks, time and time again!! VERY rude! Have they not heard of letting calls go to voice-mail when they're out with friends? It's never, ever an emergency!!! Oh, and they don't say "can I call you back in a bit, I'm with ____?!" They have their extended conversation! What does one do while that happens. Look around? Take out a book and read it??

[Bill-n-Brillo]

Originally Posted by NotGolfer

Oh.yes! Always it's a "it's "my kids"....I "have to" get this!!! BUT it's generally the same folks, time and time again!! VERY rude! Have they not heard of letting calls go to voice-mail when they're out with friends? It's never, ever an emergency!!! Oh, and they don't say "can I call you back in a bit, I'm with ____?!" They have their extended conversation! What does one do while that happens. Look around? Take out a book and read it??

pass gas.......???



On the rare occasion that someone we're with gets a phone call, they'll either make the call brief or tell them they'll call them back. We do the same.....or just let it go to voice mail. It all seems to work out fine.

One friend of ours calls his mother every afternoon at a certain time. She expects the call and would get worried if he didn't call. We're completely understanding of the situation - he always excuses himself from the room to make the call.

Bill

[rubicon]

It is called progress

[Heartnsoul]

how about going to someone's home and they sit and play on their phone or iphone while your trying to socialize?? somehow we have lost the most important moments in our life when we stop socializing and start living through a phone. the kids are growing up in this new "technology generation" but us seniors? hmmm i consider it rude also when you on phone and they put you on hold to talk to someone else. call the other person back. i just hang up when put on hold and go about my day. maybe then they will get message?? or maybe not.

[NotGolfer]

Whenever 'you' see folks (they're ALL over the place) with a phone hanging out of their ear. Be it while taking a walk, shopping, eating in a restaurant, shopping etc. It comes to mind-----whatever did we all do before cellphones? I hate that we are THAT connected to technology and have to instantly be available to whomever has our phone number.

I for one only use my cell for "emergencies" (my car broke down??) or if I need to contact someone for information while I'm out and about. I tell folks if they want to call me they'll better reach us on our land-line. YUP, we still have one of those 'antique' things!!!

I agree that if you're at someone's house and the host is constantly checking their phone (it could be facebook and texting) while you're socializing is extremely rude. Maybe when they come to my house I should spend my time on my computer!! Back in the day, when a call came and you were with someone, or a bunch of someone's, it was considered GOOD manners to tell the caller you'll call them back later!!

[OldDave]

Very good topic. I can tell you already that all our children think we are dinosaurs, though.

When cell phones first became common there were a great tool and convenience. Somewhere along the line, that changed for some people, luckily not everyone. The people you complain about are the ones that are essentially a part of an on going conversation with the world that seems to have to take precedence over whatever is happening in front of them. I truly do not understand this, and I worked in the communications industry most of my life.

I agree that the conversations these folks have seem universally unimportant and mundane. They don't ever seem, to me, to raise to the level of being more important than the people who have chosen to be in your actual presence at the moment.

My 27 year old son is certainly one of those, although for people his age it usually isn't talking it's texting. In fact, he informed me calling someone on their phone is now considered rude. You might be interrupting them. You should text only. Great except for our generation with Consumer Cellular phones that don't text.

Actually this really brings up a sad moment for me. At Christmas my son got to come home for several days after moving to his new job last summer in Dallas. And my daughter was home from college. It was the first chance we'd all been together in month. We're sitting in the living room, with a chance to catch up. I look around the room. My wife is playing a game on her iPad, my daughter is on her computer reading gossip, and my son is texting on his iPhone. I'm being serious here, this was a truly sad moment for me. I sat there for about 5 more minutes and no one spoke to each other. I finally got up and went into my room and watched football, which I wasn't particularly interested in (which is easy when you're a Chiefs fan, lol.)

In all seriousness I think we are damaging our societies ability to communicate. I know this is a bit off topic, but our children and their children are learning that 80 characters, or what ever is allowed by text and tweet is the same thing as actually talking to someone. As I like to say, we moved from smoke signals, to telegraph to telephone to satellite and now we've moved back to telegraph. I truly do worry about this.

[Madelaine Amee]

Originally Posted by NotGolfer

I tell folks if they want to call me they'll better reach us on our land-line. YUP, we still have one of those 'antique' things!!!

Thank you to whoever started this thread .................

If you answer your cell phone while you are in my company, it's the last time we will be in each others company, because you are telling me someone else, actually anyone else, is more important to you!

Yes, I do remember when people called the house on the land line and if you were not there they left a message. Oh happy days!

[memason]

Well, I'm guess I'm gonna take the other side of the coin here... I don't really mind, if someone takes a call, when we're together. Most times, the call is very short and doesn't detract from our discussion/outing. If it were to go on for 15 minutes, it might be a different story.

As far as texting.... I do text; a lot! Almost all of my friends, here in the Villages, text. Texting IS communicating. Personally, I would much rather receive a text than a phone call, if it's something simple, like "I'll pick you up at 9:00 for golf tomorrow". When I have time, I might text back, but not necessary. For my friends who cannot text, they wish they could ;-)

If your kids are working, texting is one of the best ways to stay in touch without being too intrusive in their workday. When I call them, I normally talk to their voicemail...

Like everything, you have to practice a little common sense. If I'm with friends, having dinner or something, I almost always send a phone call to voicemail, unless it's something very important and then I will excuse myself for a couple minutes. A text, I will look at and either answer then or later.

Just me...and everyone is different...

[Topspinmo]

I find it funny when phone calls (PC) are only annoying to other people untill they get PC. I don't mind people talking on the phone, but hate to see it when they are driving. They set at stop lights dialing or answering like this is more important that stopping traffic. How many of us have seen car veer over in our lane and the driver on phone, dailing phone or answering phone. Then, there the ones that text while driving. So somebody talking on the phone in place of bussiness or public area is their right. But it should be against the law to do in moving vehicle. That may get us both killed. This will only get worse.

[Mikeod]

Originally Posted by memason

Well, I'm guess I'm gonna take the other side of the coin here... I don't really mind, if someone takes a call, when we're together. Most times, the call is very short and doesn't detract from our discussion/outing. If it were to go on for 15 minutes, it might be a different story.

As far as texting.... I do text; a lot! Almost all of my friends, here in the Villages, text. Texting IS communicating. Personally, I would much rather receive a text than a phone call, if it's something simple, like "I'll pick you up at 9:00 for golf tomorrow". When I have time, I might text back, but not necessary. For my friends who cannot text, they wish they could ;-)

If your kids are working, texting is one of the best ways to stay in touch without being too intrusive in their workday. When I call them, I normally talk to their voicemail...

Like everything, you have to practice a little common sense. If I'm with friends, having dinner or something, I almost always send a phone call to voicemail, unless it's something very important and then I will excuse myself for a couple minutes. A text, I will look at and either answer then or later.

Just me...and everyone is different...