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Do people not TALK to each other when they go out anymore??

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  • claire16c
    claire16c Posts: 7,074 Forumite
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    victory wrote: »
    Don't get me started on this one:mad: eldest had to have a very important coversation with him the other day, the whole time he never looked at me once while he had his head down on facebook:mad: I flipped, told him he was ignorant and rude and and and:rotfl: he was like What is the prob? Stupid boy.

    A while ago we went out to a castle, it was a beautiful day, the single dad in front of us had a teenage daughter and the son was about 9, the daughter did nt see a thing, nothing, she was the whole time on her mobile and the 9 year old was on his ds, waste of ticket entrance price, this constant checking for texts, facebook, being on the mobile, playing games, drives meinsanse, all that has def been banned at home, I can't tolerate it.

    Even OH knows, because to go out just us and to put your mob on the table to check incase it rings and answer if it does sends me crazy so it does not happen now:D


    I watched Supernanny US today and the family had a 13 year old who did the same thing.

    So they did role reversal for about an hour or so.

    Every question he asked them like 'Can I go out?' or whatever, they pretended to be on their phones texting, playing games etc, and telling him 'Wait a minute' over and over.

    After several times, and him getting pretty annoyed, he realised they were just impersonating him :rotfl:

    If parents let their kids take their DS to somewhere like that then they are the ones to blame!
  • your own conversations cant be that interesting if you spend all night obsessively stalking the people around you to the extent that you know exactly when they started speaking to each other.

    maybe they would rather not talk about their private lives while some interferring busybody is sat listening to their every word?
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  • your own conversations cant be that interesting if you spend all night obsessively stalking the people around you to the extent that you know exactly when they started speaking to each other.

    maybe they would rather not talk about their private lives while some interferring busybody is sat listening to their every word?

    Oh here we go...I'm now an obsessive,uninteresting,stalking,interfering busy body for passing comment on a family sat directly next to me in a public place now.Seriously..oh dear.:rotfl:
    Call me what you like DSM but "fortunately" I have read enough of your posts since I've joined here to know that I care about this --> . (see that teeny dot there?) much what you think of me :D
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  • Oh here we go...I'm now an obsessive,uninteresting,stalking,interfering busy body for passing comment on a family sat directly next to me in a public place now.Seriously..oh dear.:rotfl:
    Call me what you like DSM but "fortunately" I have read enough of your posts since I've joined here to know that I care about this --> . (see that teeny dot there?) much what you think of me :D

    'passing comment'? by your own admission you sat there and watched them so much that you knew exactly what they were doing and exactly how little they were talking.

    if you spent your entire meal doing that, how exactly was your own familial conversation any better? cant have been that engrossing, can it?;)
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  • Gavin83
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    FatVonD wrote: »
    It's the same on pubic transport nowadays too, I look around and the majority of the train carriage is plugged into some kind of technology or other. I recall making friends with people on the train when I was in my teens and 20s but the youth of today (God, I just turned into my parents!) seem to feel they don't exist unless every aspect of their life is fully documented on Facebook or Twitter, it's really sad.

    To be honest I wouldn't talk to other commuters on the train unless they spoke to me first, it's more trouble than it's worth. To be honest I normally read when travelling anyway, only real chance I get.

    I've never noticed anything as extreme as the first example but I do often notice couples sitting in a restaurant not speaking to each other at all. I think it's a shame really but each to their own. Me and my GF talk loads when we go out for dinner.
  • Sat watching..umm nope.Hard not to notice what the people right next to you are doing...unless you're plugged into your iPad/iPhone of course!:p

    As for our "familial conversation"?It's perfectly lovely thankyou and we had a really nice afternoon talking,laughing and generally just appreciating being together :) If people want to see me as feeling "superior" or being a busy body I really couldn't care less.Tbh I see myself as one heck of a lucky mummy and wife to have the family I have and that's good enough for me.
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  • catkins
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    your own conversations cant be that interesting if you spend all night obsessively stalking the people around you to the extent that you know exactly when they started speaking to each other.

    maybe they would rather not talk about their private lives while some interferring busybody is sat listening to their every word?

    Sounds like you are one of the sad bunch who does not talk to whoever they are with when out.

    My conversations with OH are VERY interesting and often very funny, even after so long we get alone well but you are still aware of what is going on around you especially if tables are close together. I do not sit "listening to every word" that other people talk but you do see if they are talking or not and, sadly, it more often NOT
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  • catkins wrote: »
    Sounds like you are one of the sad bunch who does not talk to whoever they are with when out.

    My conversations with OH are VERY interesting and often very funny, even after so long we get alone well but you are still aware of what is going on around you especially if tables are close together. I do not sit "listening to every word" that other people talk but you do see if they are talking or not and, sadly, it more often NOT

    no dear. im too busy enjoying the company of my friends to take any notice of what other people are doing.

    im very glad you find your conversations interesting, though im of a school of thought that thinks that if that were truly the case you wouldnt be paying quite so much attention to the people around you.;)

    is it me youre trying to convince, or yourself?:)
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  • Birdie85
    Birdie85 Posts: 9,330 Forumite
    Give it a rest DSM, we all know where the OP is coming from so stop trying to pick holes in the story!

    I hate phones at the table especially, but also if I'm out with friends for drinks I go spare if they text/FB/Tweet all night. It's rude; I ask if they'd rather be somewhere else and they're more than welcome to leave if they wish to be with whomever it is that they're talking to! It's not just the texting that bugs me, I was on a training course last week where there was a man with one earphone in the whole time, I felt like walking over to him and ripping it out, how rude! Why must people have music blasting all the time, just pay attention to the world around you-and the people talking to you! I'm in my twenties by the way, the man on the course was older than me yet I still tutted at him like an old lady!

    A friend of mine went out for dinner to celebrate a promotion at work a couple of weeks ago and must have had her iphone in her hand the entire time she was 'enjoying' her night out with her husband as she was sending me and other friends texts, replying to FB messages and updating her status... just turn the damn thing off for an hour or two and enjoy your meal! I've noticed more and more people doing it and it is worrying how little people really do talk to each other, surely dinner in a restaurant is an ideal place to chat and catch up because there aren't the distractions that you have at home; whenever OH and I have dinner out we'll sit and chat for ages, I never want to become the couple who don't say anything other than 'Pass the salt'.
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  • NEH
    NEH Posts: 2,464 Forumite
    I've seen it becoming more and more common.....

    Whilst out with my mum a while ago a mother and son sat at a table next to us and she had his portable DVD player on whilst she sat and used her phone.....

    I don't think he was interested in watching anything I think he just wanted his mum....:(

    I've also seen a number of children watching protable DVD players whilst they're in their buggies :eek:

    I think it's sad. I also think it's sad when going on a longer journey and kids are watching the back screen tellies all the time, what happened to a good old game of eye spy and all the other car games... ;)
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