I always thought they should. And concert halls. You can quite easily buy signal blockers. I guess they worried they would be sued by some dingbat commodities broker.
When they do the " can we please ask everyone to switch off their phones" speech, why not add " anyone using their phone will be escorted from the theatre and no refund will be given"?
What I find incredibly rude is when you take the trouble to go to speak face to face to a suit in an office and they answer the phone while you're sitting there Why is someone, probably in their dressing gown or in the bath whilst on the phone, more important than the person sitting in front of them?
Why do they feel the need to have their personal phones switched on in the workplace? Presumably , in an emergency, their employers would have no objection to them receiving a call on the "work" phoneline? Phones are not allowed to be carried by Partners in Waitrose. Quite right too.
I've just come back from the supermarket where l saw a young girl and (l assume),her mum going round the aisles. Needless to say the daughter was glued to her phone while mum struggled with the trolley. If that had been my mum (and mobile phones has existed!), she would have taken it from me, put it in her bag, and l wouldn't have it back until WE had finished the shopping!
People have their phones sort of stuck to their hands now. They can't - just can't put them down and focus on a person instead. I often have to walk through a train station and the number of times I've practically tripped over someone who stops dead in front of me to look at their phone, or ended up trying to get past someone doing a slow walking zigzag (usually trailing a stupid briefcase on trolley wheels) because they have no idea at all where they are walking. Stopping right at the top of an escalator on the underground to check if they have had any missed calls while they were on the tube is a particular favourite. I don't often swear but that does make me really quite curmudgeonly.
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Why is someone, probably in their dressing gown or in the bath whilst on the phone, more important than the person sitting in front of them?
Phones are not allowed to be carried by Partners in Waitrose. Quite right too.
If they took a personal call I'd certainly walk out.
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