You are in public, in a restaurant, on the bus… and you are expecting an urgent call that will last 30 seconds? It is understandable and acceptable to answer it. But what about the long conversations that you share, in part, with complete strangers? Imagine the following scene, which is surely not unique in its kind: a flat tire yesterday morning forces me to go to my dealership. I sit in the waiting room for about twenty minutes until they take me home. There are three of us customers sitting, necessarily close to each other. One is working silently on his laptop. The other starts to converse on his cell phone. He first chats with a close relative, I presume, given the very personal content of the remarks, for about fifteen minutes. Immediately follows a call, apparently business, still in progress when I leave. Doesn’t good manners require avoiding imposing your endless conversations on your neighbors, as if your private life were of common interest? It is commendable for two people to chat while waiting for their car. Because there is an interaction between them. But having to endure a one-way conversation because the troublemaker thinks he is at home is frankly disturbing.
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