Dinner pre mobile phones
When folks sat round the table and talked to each other, there were no mobile phones next to their plates to be twiddled with between mouthfuls.
No text message beeps that had to looked at or answered.
I have to say it really annoys me when I'm out with friends for a meal or just for drinks and the flipping phones take precedence
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Sun 19 Jul 2015, 0:18, 14 replies)

I just make a game of this. Everyone put your phone in the center of the table. The first person to pick up their phone before the check arrives pays the check. The others split the tip. If nobody picks up, then we split as we normally would before phones.

I've never gotten a free meal, but I've had plenty of pleasant dinners with friends. They just turn their phone off and we wallow in conversation.
(Wahoo, Sun 19 Jul 2015, 5:32, closed)

Maybe you're just really boring company?

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Sun 19 Jul 2015, 7:33, closed)

^this^
either you're dull or you need better friends
( A Rory Borealis here under duress, Sun 19 Jul 2015, 8:49, closed)

I think munch is onto something,
as I have never been out to dinner and everyone was on their phone. I knew one bloke who used to do it, so I stopped associating with him.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Sun 19 Jul 2015, 23:01, closed)

shut up grandad, good manners are like so last millennium

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Sun 19 Jul 2015, 10:34, closed)

etiquette evolves, it's not like we piss into commodes whilst still in the dining room with our guests.

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Sun 19 Jul 2015, 18:03, closed)

I have a spitoon in every room, people that use the floor are disgusting

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 20 Jul 2015, 0:22, closed)

its grandma if you don't mind
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Sun 19 Jul 2015, 21:41, closed)

Nobody uses flipping phones anymore.
It's all about phablets these days.
(Roger McGough-Pipe, Sun 19 Jul 2015, 23:04, closed)

Was in a pub in Yorkshire where it's the law not to use your mobile phone.
There were old phones with arrows through them dotted about the place as warnings. The pub was packed.

Grinton if you must know.
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Mon 20 Jul 2015, 11:20, closed)

I hear you mate.
A boorish yank at another table ruined an otherwise lovely evening by incessantly trilling away on a Motorola Startac.
( Pig Bodine., Mon 20 Jul 2015, 14:04, closed)

^ replies, win, etc.

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 21 Jul 2015, 14:03, closed)

You are not alone. Although it's not just phones I hate. It's humanity.

( Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Mon 20 Jul 2015, 21:19, closed)

this so much^

(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Tue 21 Jul 2015, 6:56, closed)