.......................and they are constantly texting, does that bug you? I'm finding it bugs me more and more. I'll be sitting talking to my kid (he's 19) and in the middle of our conversation, his phone is binging like rain on a tin roof. He's only halfway paying attention to our conversation, and texting at the same time. I think it's pretty f'n rude, and I tell him so.
Now my buddy is starting to do it too. We were watching the Raider game yesterday at a sports bar, and we are talking, then I noticing I'm the one talking, cept he aint listening, and instead fully absorbed in his fukken phone texting. Not only that, he is missing some key plays. So finally I tell him he needs to cut the umbilical chord and lose the addiction. He chimes in that "I only say that cuz I don't have any friends?" wtf?
A few moments later, i see him turn it off and put it in his pocket.
When I begin a focused activity, like going to the doctor, or entertain some friends, or go out to dinner, I at least turn the ringer volume off. Seldom do I interrupt a focused activity to partake in a "texting conversation".
To me, if I have some guests over, and they get involved in lengthy text conversations, it seems pretty rude to me. In fact, it pisses me off. And yes, I will comment to them abuot it.
I think this is an awareness / maturity issue. When you begin a text conversation in the presence of others, it signals to them "this is important". It may be so. But if it happens all the time, it then signals "this is more important than talking to you."
I think that we as a society are so enamoured with our tech, we are seriously forgetting our manners!
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Originally Posted by DSM4Life
