Hang up and eat!

[30A Skunkape]

Just a friendly reminder when you dine anywhere that does not feature an extra-value menu...STFU on the cell phone. Believe me when I tell you you look like an a$$ yapping away about what your stooge friends are doing at the beach house while others around you are trying to enjoy a nice dinner. Furthermore, you ought to know you deserve filthy dish water dumped on your head if you are so rude as to concurrently spew your banter while you incoherently give your dinner order to your waiter. You are not important enough to yak on the phone in a restaurant. Hang it up and dispense with the verbal dysentery. By the way, if anyone knows where I can get my hands on one of those cell phone zappers, I will gladly pay for it.

That is all.

 

[rapunzel]

Just a friendly reminder when you dine anywhere that does not feature an extra-value menu...STFU on the cell phone. Believe me when I tell you you look like an a$$ yapping away about what your stooge friends are doing at the beach house while others around you are trying to enjoy a nice dinner. Furthermore, you ought to know you deserve filthy dish water dumped on your head if you are so rude as to concurrently spew your banter while you incoherently give your dinner order to your waiter. You are not important enough to yak on the phone in a restaurant. Hang it up and dispense with the verbal dysentery. By the way, if anyone knows where I can get my hands on one of those cell phone zappers, I will gladly pay for it.

That is all.

Basmati's -- one of the best restaurants on 30A -- a definitely worth slowing down and savoring. What was worse, when these women weren't actively talking on the phone, they had the iPhone on the table, backlit...obsessively watching for text messages and then loudly telling everyone what the son who couldn't make the journey from New Orleans is up to. How could I have possibly enjoyed the perfectly balanced egg drop soup with huge lumps of crab had I not known?

Basmati's food was stellar, as always.

 

[SHELLY]

Just a friendly reminder when you dine anywhere that does not feature an extra-value menu...STFU on the cell phone. Believe me when I tell you you look like an a$$ yapping away about what your stooge friends are doing at the beach house while others around you are trying to enjoy a nice dinner. Furthermore, you ought to know you deserve filthy dish water dumped on your head if you are so rude as to concurrently spew your banter while you incoherently give your dinner order to your waiter. You are not important enough to yak on the phone in a restaurant. Hang it up and dispense with the verbal dysentery. By the way, if anyone knows where I can get my hands on one of those cell phone zappers, I will gladly pay for it.

That is all.

Same here--IN SPADES!

I'm going on a jaunt across the big pond this Spring--I think I read one can get the phone jammers over in the UK, so I put it on the top of my shopping list. I know they're "illegal" here in the USA, but so is ripping the Cell Phone out of a person's hands and jamming it up their arse--so I'll call it a wash.

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[Miss Kitty]

Did you speak with your server about this extreme rudeness? Most nicer restaurants have rules about cell phone usage....for good reason, since IDIOTS have lost their manners.

 

[Jdarg]

Sounds like they were cougars waiting for phone calls.

 

[jodiFL]

Furthermore, you ought to know you deserve filthy dish water dumped on your head if you are so rude as to concurrently spew your banter while you incoherently give your dinner order to your waiter.

Or you deserve not to get served AT ALL if you hold your finger up for the server to stand there and wait for you to finish your conversation. Like those other 4 or 5 tables he/she has dont mind waiting for you to finish chatting for their refills or food to be brought out from the kitchen. I actually walked away from a table once when a customer did that to me then was asked (rather rudely I might add) why I went to another table and served them first when the chatty cathy table was there before the other one.

 

[NOLA TRANSPLANT]

AMEN AND HALLELUJAH!!!!!!
So sorry you had to experience that. This whole i phone craze is annoying, it reminds me of when people
first started carrying cell phones and when they would go to dinner they would sit the phone on the table almost like it deserved its own place at the table for everyone to see!
Grow up, and get some manners.
Got to take a call GO OUTSIDE. Dinning by yourself? Bring a book!
Have some respect for others!!!!!

 

[sunspotbaby]

Even more annoying, taking the call on the ba-deep phone so everyone can hear the other person !
Ba-deep "where you at"
ba-deep "We're at the restaurant, where are you?"
ba-deep "I think we're Lost"
ba-deep " take a right on 98......."

STFU! or go outside! :roll:

 

[John R]

There is no excuse for that behavior, especially a fine dining restaurant. You are there to dine. If you really wanted to talk with the people on the phone, they should be at the restaurant with you. Management should have said something to them.

 

[Beach Runner]

Did you speak with your server about this extreme rudeness? Most nicer restaurants have rules about cell phone usage....for good reason, since IDIOTS have lost their manners.

Even Houston's says no cell phones. Thankfully most doctor's offices and even the salon where I have my hair done have signs that request no cell phone usage.

SORRY: The day when Big D called me from China and I knew it would be my only call from him that day. That was rude of me, and I apologize. Even though we were outside, I should have gotten up from the table and had our conversation elsewhere. I just didn't anticipate us talking so long.