What would you do? I did nothing but I think I should have done something.

[TheBeachHouse]

Man with wife and kid here for a couple days. On his laptop the entire time. Whatever. Wife even tells me he always works. Not my issue, right?
This morning, il cleaning breakfast and he's on the phone. Talking business. In the dining room!!!!
I looked around and there was no one else there. Room is empty. So I didn't say anything. They are checking out today so there's no fixing to be done.
I HATE hearing people on the phone. And especially business. And especially when I'm trying to relax. Like on the beach or sayyyyyy, on the porch of a B&B.

 

[Lee2014]

Just think, he's paying me to hear him talk on the phone…..

 

[TheBeachHouse]

I was afraid his phone call drove the other guests out of the dining area.

 

[Jcam]

Me I don't allow mobiles in the breakfast room - plenty of other places to be

 

[TheBeachHouse]

Me I don't allow mobiles in the breakfast room - plenty of other places to be.

What do you say? How do you handle it?

 

[Morticia]

Because no one else was around leaving him alone was fine. If other guests were there, then yes, mention he might have more privacy for his business calls if he was in his room. Then clean noisily, talk right out loud to the other guests. There's no need for that.

 

[GoodScout]

My MAJOR pet peeve.
Mrs. Swann gets upset because when someone's talking loudly on a phone in a restaurant, I start talking back to them, answering their questions as if they're talking to me. When they give me a dirty look or say something, I just give them a disapproving look and say "you were talking so loudly I ASSUMED you were talking to ME. Perhaps you should take your phone conversation outside."
One time they did with a dirty look. Another time he refused, so I had to have the waitress move us.

 

[gillumhouse]

My MAJOR pet peeve.
Mrs. Swann gets upset because when someone's talking loudly on a phone in a restaurant, I start talking back to them, answering their questions as if they're talking to me. When they give me a dirty look or say something, I just give them a disapproving look and say "you were talking so loudly I ASSUMED you were talking to ME. Perhaps you should take your phone conversation outside."
One time they did with a dirty look. Another time he refused, so I had to have the waitress move us..

On this note, a friend sent this to me last week:
After a tiring day, a commuter settled down in his seat and closed his eyes.
As the train rolled out of the station, a woman sitting next to him pulled out her mobile phone.

She started talking in a loud voice: "Hi sweetheart. It's Sue. I'm on the train". "Yes, I know it's the six thirty and not the four thirty, but I had a long meeting. No, honey, not with that Kevin from the accounting office. It was with the boss. No sweetheart, you're the only one in my life. Yes, I'm sure, cross my heart!"

Fifteen minutes later, she was still talking loudly. When the man sitting next to her had enough, he leaned over and said into the phone, "Sue, hang up the phone and come back to bed."


Sue doesn't use her mobile phone in public any longer.

 

[TheBeachHouse]

Me I don't allow mobiles in the breakfast room - plenty of other places to be.

People always have their phones or tablets in the breakfast room. I'd find that a difficult rule to enforce. I love your spin,Mort.
I commute by train and people on the phone make me crazy.

 

[Morticia]

Me I don't allow mobiles in the breakfast room - plenty of other places to be.

People always have their phones or tablets in the breakfast room. I'd find that a difficult rule to enforce. I love your spin,Mort.
I commute by train and people on the phone make me crazy.
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Please don't allow phones on planes. So many people will be injured. So many planes will be forced to turn around or land at airports other than their destination.

 

[Morticia]

We also have guests who deliberately speak in a projecting voice so everyone has to hear their conversation.

 

[Generic]

I had two guests eat breakfast with baseball caps on... you can't do anything about the uncouth.

 

[user 26]

I don't like loud voices on a phone ... but I have a different take about someone always on laptop/computer.
As you say, always working. My nephew is totally stressed out and keeps trying to take a vacation ... he works in IT. The promised vacation turns into delays and being 'on call' . He has not actually taken vacation time in more than three years and is in danger of losing that accrued time. Yet his supervisors push for delays and interrupt his off time, weekends, middle of the night, it seems he is always monitoring what's happening. Really always unless he is sleeping. He is tring to find a new job as there have been numerous layoffs and outsourcing of jobs to India. His insurance is great, he needs that for a family member with a terminal illness. His pay is also great and he is also helping support his parents.
But at what cost to him?
I worry that he will crack under the pressure. He smiles and laughs and is very pleasant, you would not think there is anything wrong. But he also rages sometimes or cries in private and feels burnt out. Sometimes just getting away to someplace else (even though tethered to the machines) is the best he can do even if family is able to go and do things while he cannot join them. Working on a computer or on the phone with no one else in the dining room? That would not bother me at all.
If I noticed other people trying to relax in same room, I'd probably try to find him a quiet corner to work in. Yes, even the porch ... sorry.

 

[Copperhead]

As long as he was there alone no need to say anything.
But if there were others, I would politely say that they get a better reception if they take that call ___________.

 

[Highlands John]

We get young couples who sit at the breakfast table opposite each other both doing things on their phones, totally oblivious to each other, not saying a word to each other.
I want to slap them and say what are you doing wasting your precious time together, but instead I smile sweetly and say "more coffee or toast?"

 

[BananaE29]

My MAJOR pet peeve.
Mrs. Swann gets upset because when someone's talking loudly on a phone in a restaurant, I start talking back to them, answering their questions as if they're talking to me. When they give me a dirty look or say something, I just give them a disapproving look and say "you were talking so loudly I ASSUMED you were talking to ME. Perhaps you should take your phone conversation outside."
One time they did with a dirty look. Another time he refused, so I had to have the waitress move us..

On this note, a friend sent this to me last week:
After a tiring day, a commuter settled down in his seat and closed his eyes.
As the train rolled out of the station, a woman sitting next to him pulled out her mobile phone.

She started talking in a loud voice: "Hi sweetheart. It's Sue. I'm on the train". "Yes, I know it's the six thirty and not the four thirty, but I had a long meeting. No, honey, not with that Kevin from the accounting office. It was with the boss. No sweetheart, you're the only one in my life. Yes, I'm sure, cross my heart!"

Fifteen minutes later, she was still talking loudly. When the man sitting next to her had enough, he leaned over and said into the phone, "Sue, hang up the phone and come back to bed."


Sue doesn't use her mobile phone in public any longer.
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Bwhahahaahahahahah!!!!!!

 

[JBloggs]

We get young couples who sit at the breakfast table opposite each other both doing things on their phones, totally oblivious to each other, not saying a word to each other.
I want to slap them and say what are you doing wasting your precious time together, but instead I smile sweetly and say "more coffee or toast?".

We get young couples who sit at the breakfast table opposite each other both doing things on their phones, totally oblivious to each other, not saying a word to each other.
I want to slap them and say what are you doing wasting your precious time together, but instead I smile sweetly and say "more coffee or toast?"

maybe they already spent "time together" and are catching up on work. Just sayin'...
it is funny how all of you insert what you think is happening from your own perspective and may not be happening at all.

 

[Arks]

We get young couples who sit at the breakfast table opposite each other both doing things on their phones, totally oblivious to each other, not saying a word to each other.
I want to slap them and say what are you doing wasting your precious time together, but instead I smile sweetly and say "more coffee or toast?".

We get young couples who sit at the breakfast table opposite each other both doing things on their phones, totally oblivious to each other, not saying a word to each other.
I want to slap them and say what are you doing wasting your precious time together, but instead I smile sweetly and say "more coffee or toast?"

maybe they already spent "time together" and are catching up on work. Just sayin'...
it is funny how all of you insert what you think is happening from your own perspective and may not be happening at all.
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...maybe they already spent "time together" and are catching up on work. Just sayin'...

Not our business to plan their life through our own eyes.

 

[Jcam]

We get young couples who sit at the breakfast table opposite each other both doing things on their phones, totally oblivious to each other, not saying a word to each other.
I want to slap them and say what are you doing wasting your precious time together, but instead I smile sweetly and say "more coffee or toast?".

We get young couples who sit at the breakfast table opposite each other both doing things on their phones, totally oblivious to each other, not saying a word to each other.
I want to slap them and say what are you doing wasting your precious time together, but instead I smile sweetly and say "more coffee or toast?"

maybe they already spent "time together" and are catching up on work. Just sayin'...
it is funny how all of you insert what you think is happening from your own perspective and may not be happening at all.
.

...maybe they already spent "time together" and are catching up on work. Just sayin'...

Not our business to plan their life through our own eyes.
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See we are in that group - we go to a local place for coffee and waffles and a lunch break, DH will be scrolling through Etsy and Ebay for stuff for next door as this is his little hobby to do and then show me things he has found as he is eating and discuss them - each to their own.

 

[TheBeachHouse]

They checked out telling us it was their first B&B and everything was fantastic.