Maybe that's where I'm missing the point. I don't lump browsing the internet and making a call on a cellphone in the same category. My desktop is connected right now through a 3G broadband connection, but I don't carry that desktop down the aisles at Walmart, oblivious to everything and everyone else around me while I type a reply on Pondboss....nor do I make the person with whom I am engaged in a face-to-face conversation with, wait while I use that desktop to reply to a sudden email.... Just plain rude.
Sure, there are legitimate reasons for answering a sudden call, or carrying on an unexpected conversation. But I just don't believe that EVERY call, or EVERY conversation warrants that kind of "drop whatever else you're doing right now" response, that so many cellphone users, (at least the ones I'm seeing), seem to abide by.
To me it's rude, and it shows a complete indifference and disregard for anyone else around them. But maybe it's just me.
