Dear Queenie,
I was at a funeral and saw someone checking something out on her cell phone. I’ve seen people doing that during a church service too.
Queenie, isn’t that rude of them? Should I say something when I see things like that?—Cell Phone Etty Ket
Dear Etty Ket,
You are right that it is rude to do something like that at such a time and place. However, saying anything to these rude people when you see them doing such things would be even more disruptive at such an event, which would be just as rude or even more so.
Keep quiet when you see such things happening, but if you have an opportunity =to speak to the rude person after the event – preferably in (relative) private and certainly as politely as you can manage – you can tell them how disturbing you found their behaviour. And try to allow for the possibility that what they were doing was related to some kind of urgent matter or even an emergency.
