Why do people always assume you have your phone glued to your hand 24/7 ?

[cyberknight]

I couldn't live without mine.
I'm currently camping in Weymouth overlooking the sea browsing the forums. Bliss!

It seriously frustrates me when my parents go out and either don't take their phone or leave it on silent!!! Argh!!!

Sometimes I think it's an age thing...

Must be, if i was on holiday the forum can wait till i get back .

 

[marknotgeorge]

I'm annoyed with mine at the moment. I dropped it at just the wrong angle, and the screen shattered. No problem, I've got it insured for just such an eventuality. Oh, but apparently it makes me not sound like myself...

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Mine is not a smartphone and I'm on a payg setup that costs me about £35-40 a year. It's switched off when out for dinner, socialising or at the cinema or theatre. Most people accept that I do this and can't be instantly available but there are some who have to be told that my mobile phone is for my convenience not for theirs.

However it does seem that for the majority they are a constant distraction.


GC

 

[Saluki]

I keep my mobile with me 24/7 but only because the kidney transplant people have my number as a primary contact for when a kidney becomes available.
Before Hubster was on the transplant list, I turned my phone off at 6pm and didn't turn it back on again until 8am. It was off from noon on a Saturday until 8am on a monday unless I wished to use it for phoning someone. Bliss.

 

[jefmcg]

You never had to ask anyone where they were before there were mobiles.

Well, except when they called you.

I ask where people are as a way to ascertain if they are in a good place to talk. I'd much rather people would let my call go to voice mail than pick it up when they are driving or out to dinner etc. Well, if they won't be polite/safe, I'll do it for them

 

[Smokin Joe]

I ask people where they are because I'm nosey.

 

[400bhp]

My in-laws are a nightmare with phoning. They expect everyone in the family to have a phone welded to their ears. Let's say, a small every day thing is an urgent you must do it now request.

If we don't answer one of our mobiles, they will then phone one of the other phones, the house and even the kids. My sister in law can't have her phone with her when working, so is out of contact. Well they leave message after message, call after call when she gets back to her phone. They literally expect everyone to be available 24/7.

This really facks me off. My dad is a bugger for doing it. Phones me, then the house phone, then the OH's phone.

TBH a lot of the time I don't answer the phone if I'm at home or in my own time. I like to dictate on my terms not on someone elses. Can't remember who said it but a phone call is quite rude. It has no perception of what you are doing at the time.

At work then it's a different matter, however if I am phoning someone on their mobile then I will ask them if they are OK to talk. I find it impolite and impersonal to just assume someone is able to instantly talk to you without a known end point.