His wife called him from Paris on his cell phone during dinner, and he listened attentively as she described her own dinner with fashion models from the Paris collections.
In an essay on TechCrunch entitled "I Will Check My Phone at Dinner and You Will Deal With It," MG Siegler wrote, "Forgive me, but it's Dinner 2.0".
"Do not answer the phone at dinner," she writes.
She asked all her friends, in e-mail messages, on the phone, at dinner.
One of the rudest things a person can do is check their phone over dinner.
It wasn't that he was using his phone at dinner, or that he was hitting "reply all" on e-mail threads, or leaving unnecessary voice mail messages.
And does it persist or affect your relationship now?" By phone, over dinner and through e-mail, people's honest responses started flooding in.
Over in Pittsfield, Mission Bar & Tapas (no phone, missionbarandtapas.com, dinner for two with wine $40)serves small plates – meat and cheese platters, pork tacos and paella – perfect for a pre- or post-theatre dinner.
They play a short birthday party, and afterward, while Zanes is on a cell phone arranging dinner (his wife's cell phone, actually; he borrowed it for the trip), he is recognized as the star of his old life.
These are dishes so easy and reliable that they practically cook themselves, allowing you the brain space to obsess over your crummy day, daydream about the perfect suede boots or chat on the phone, your dinner progressing all the while.
So the next time your spouse seems preoccupied with his phone during dinner, don't assume he's chatting with his high school sweetheart on Facebook even though he promised he'd stop; instead choose to believe he's browsing Amazon, looking for a nice present to buy you.
