Bad manners be damned, my oldest has called me maybe once in the last two years. And she was in a car wreck. Suppose I should have let a shaken-up twenty-something year old girl go to voicemail...NOT.
I will literally text my youngest as I sit down to a movie or dinner and tell her that I am about to be off the grid and not to expect texts to be answered, so if she calls then she must really need something.
Again, sorry but I'M NOT SORRY. I know you're paying for our time but we are also human beings. I would never text, FB, google, or take random calls during dinner or post session clean-up but my family is so important to me that I am never going to just "leave my phone in the car" to soothe someone's ego.
Rant over

I do agree that all the random phone conversations I hear out in public are annoying as hell, I myself prefer text so that the whole universe doesn't know my business.
It is quite a struggle to maintain etiquette as far as cell phones are concerned.
