If a phone call comes in during dinner ....

Yeah, if its a company we tell them to call back later. If its friends we eat and chat at the same time.

 

It depends on who's calling. The majority of the people that phone in general aren't people we want to talk to, at supper or anytime :lol:

 

Nowadays nobody calls me anymore. Whoever needs to get a hold of me usually just send me either a text (friends, family and even some clients) or an e-mail (classmates and most clients) and any ensuing conversation will proceed in the respective format. That's why if my phone rings I assume it's either urgent, important, or urgent and important thus I always pick up the phone.

Regarding the other phenomenon you mentioned, no I don't have the habit of berating or scolding whoever calls me. There's no way for you to know what I'm doing before you make the call, as such—if my desire were to not be interrupted—the responsibility of making sure I'm not reachable falls on my shoulders. Shutting off one's phone for a little while is not that hard.

 

You never get people trying to sell you stuff? :eek:

 

Back in the day we didn't have any newfangled gadgets that displayed incoming call numbers . At dinner my parents would usually ignore a call if we'd already sat down to eat, more often than not it was telemarketers calling at that time. As they always said (and as I say now if an unknown number comes in) "If it's important, they'll call again."

 

They must have me profiled as "poor"

 

My family do not eat together. If someone calls while one of us is eating, I think we'd all just let them leave a voicemail.

 

Yeah I get that all the time, it's quite annoying. They start asking for your credit card information, a free trip to an island, etc. Sometimes I play along with it though, and I've really wanted to play back a record message to the person and just leave the phone there lol.

 

Usually, I'd get it...








... because it was a call from the school, wanting to tell my parents of that day's misdeed. LOL!

 

This exactly.

 

...People call me?

 

My mom would always answer the phone, and my brother, father and I would roll our eyes. She spends ages talking on the phone, and the food would be cold when she got back, which we found... kind of sad, and I like it better when she's there, I think.
These days, if someone calls during a meal it's usually my brother, so it makes us laugh every time. Like, he only calls when we're all seated at the table eating.

 

We didn't have a landline when I was growing up. My mother had it disconnected because she got fed up of whichever women my father was currently having an affair with calling the house and upsetting her by saying things like "You're his partner?! But he told me you were dead!" and such.

In regards to telesales my stepbrother had an amusing approach. He would put on an accent and pretend to be a takeaway shop and ask to take their order, he'd let them give their spiel about whatever they were selling then reply with a deadpan: "You want fries with that?"

 

My family growing up let the house phone ring and ring(yes, kids, we had a phone wired into the wall back then) and go to message.

Currently, I answer the phone most of the time unless I'm in a pissy mood or want to be left alone. This is often the case when I am depressed. If it is a number I do not recognize, it goes to voicemail unless I am bored, whether I am eating or not. Half the calls I get are telemarketers or bill collectors anyways.

 

Let it ring. There are many times when it's inconvenient for me to take a call and I count meal times amongst them.

 

I dont answer it period

 

I rarely answer phonecalls anyway, but if it was from a friend or someone important then i simply answer it, we do not eat at a table so what i do while eating is of my own discretion. ^.^