There
is phone answering rudeness and then there is playing with a smart
phone in company, Augh!
Phubbing
stands
for “phone
snubbing,”
and it’s increasingly common practice. With smartphones offering a
whole world of time-wasting possibilities it’s all too easy to be
tempted to do something other than talk to someone in the real world.
Survey
in Britain: 27 percent said they would answer their phone in the
middle of a face-to-face conversation. A third confessed that they
would answer the phone in a restaurant and 19 per cent said they
would while being served in a shop. I think USA is more.
Gentle reader: In general Mr. Manners agrees with you that it is rude to answer one's cell phone while talking with someone else in person, eating out, etc. If it's an emergency, that's something else. One should then apologize profusely to the person(s) he is with and keep the phone conversation as brief as possible, apologizing again afterward.
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Gentle reader: In general Mr. Manners agrees with you that it is rude to answer one's cell phone while talking with someone else in person, eating out, etc. If it's an emergency, that's something else. One should then apologize profusely to the person(s) he is with and keep the phone conversation as brief as possible, apologizing again afterward.
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