Yes exactly! I did find it hard to explain!
They also usually have, overly long painted talons grasping the phone too!
I think the root cause of all this is quite simply a lack of good manners. Something that is sadly lacking in general these days.
Not the way I was brought up.
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I see them dojng this too. As Ruthio just said, they hold the phone like a slice of bread and talk into the end of it. Why? It looks so daft.
The lady concerned must have been about 80. i was on a coach tour once and another very elderly lady was texting people on her phone but she left it on loudspeaker so you could hear every single letter she typed! It drove me mad and I did have to ask her to put it on silent in the end.
And, at the other end of the spectrum, I do have a phone but I rarely use it. I probably I should at least take it with me just in case of an emergency. I’m an old phart so if I broke a leg I could be in the sh1t…!
I actually used our mobile this lunchtime to ask V to come and pick me up from the hospital. I been for an appointment with an eye specialist that went on for 2 hours.
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I’m finding my mobile increasingly more useful … like a good friend, a fun toy.
It’s just a bit too big & heavy to be mobile, so I don’t take it anywhere!
When Ms d00d & I go out for lunch or something she’s happy to take it in her handbag, I just don’t have a pocket big enough.
Not allowed in my home, Tedc.
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Yesterday , as I was driving down a busy road, I saw a child on a tricycle riding along the pavement alone. She was tiny and only 2 to 3 years old.
I was on the other side of the road so tried to park , in case this child had escaped from a garden on the nearby side road. As I looked down the side road I saw a young woman chatting on her mobile, so I wondered why she hadn’t noticed this child alone near a busy road.
I was just going to get out of my car and and try to cross the road ro reach this toddler , when I noticed that this woman was probably the child’s mother as she was following where the child had cycled, about 8-10 yards behind her… so the child was out of her sight when I first saw her.
I could not believe that anybody would allow a chat on their mobile to take preference over a tiny tot’s safety. 
You lucky, lucky, lucky b****** (a Monty Python comment)!
When I went to the Eye Hospital recently, I was there for 3 1/2 hours. An hour of that was waiting for the pharmacy to get their fingers out
Pharmacy stuck their fingers in your eye? I hope you reported them!
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No, not my eye…
Ta muchly. That 2 hours didn’t include the 45mins I had to wait before I went in (my appointment was at 10:10, I went in at 10:55).
Twink I see it often . I live on a very busy main residential road . A little up the pathway drops to a steep slope to cross the road . I have watched in horror as little kiddies on their trikes or bikes come peddling down the sloping pathway and gathering speed as parent strolls along 50 feet further up yapping on their phone. The road is full of parked cars too .
It is quite unbelievable
I thought of this thread today whilst on a 3 mile bus journey!
A woman opposite me, was yapping very loudly on her mobile phone for the duration of the journey… on and on and on… until l wanted to clasp my hands over my ears and scream, ‘Shattt it’,… like a banshee!
She was very overweight and she was telling someone how she was on a diet and going to make lots of chicken soup and eat celery and other salad.
What made it worse is that she was talking in that awful, ‘up talk’ mode…inflection at the end of the sentence.
Honestly, l prayed that she would get off at each next stop… but she didn’t.
When we arrived at the next town she got off the bus and started texting someone! It was the stop that l was getting off at too… Oh the peace…the relief…
Apologies,l have edited the incorrect word to inflection.
Yes, a lot of places like to get all their patients in at once so that the doctor(s) are not kept waiting. All but the first patient are, of course, kept waiting!
Art I’m not sure what uptalk is or deflected speech what is that ?
What gets me is mothers or fathers who get on the bus with a pushchair sit in the front with the child either facing them or looking outwards then they get on their phone and for the 25 minute journey into town yap away ignoring their child who’s little eyes never leave their parents faces.
So tell me about uptalk please Art. You see down here it’s the Dorset lilt 
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susan, It’s hard to explain. They speak a sentence but the end of it goes up as if it’s spoken like a question!
I think it originated in Australia. You must have heard people speak like it but maybe not thought anything of it.
It was the trend some years back but there are still those that do it.
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susan, l forgot to say, l have seen women on the bus, hand their mobile phone to their very young child in a pushchair.
It’s set on cartoons and the child that is slightly propped up, holds it right in front of their face!
What happened to reading books to your child?
Errrm, why is this post directed at myself and not susan?
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Ah yes i know how you mean now .
Thanks for explaining
It looks like me and Artangel are talking to ourselfs !
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