karl wrote:what do we think we owe these people that you feel the need to apologise to them for something normal and day to day that is going on in your life? "hey, I'm sorry that my wife is talking to me about our daughters progress right now, let me hangup so I can stand here silently whilst you run my purchase through the till"Maybe old skool but I like to acknowledge someone's presence even if they are just scanning my shopping. Although if they ignored me I might just make a phonecall!
wtf? :scratch:
I don't have important, serious calls when I'm at a shopping till. To me that's like wtf??!?
Why not wait till you see each other and talk about stuff like that face to face?
Some folk must have incredibly busy lives. Believe it or not I sometimes even go to the shop without a phone!