Texting in social situations (husband, person, grandmother, appropriate)
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Doctors appointments, social events, shopping etc, which usually means a lot of sitting around for me waiting until she needs something or me for anything. Otherwise she stays engaged in her events often leaving me to kinda have nothing to do but sit there and listen and observe.
I’m literally only there out of necessity, she needs help with her wheelchair, getting her food, carrying her things etc. I have zero investment in the events themselves nor are they things I plan on joining, even though one group asked already. So sitting at these things for 2+ hours gets to be very difficult and boring. A lot of them aren’t very interactive events, it’s sit and listen to something for 3 hours.
Obviously I’ll want to pick my phone up during these situations to keep my mind from just absolutely screaming.
During the parts where I’m not able to talk and mingle is it rude for me to quietly sit on my phone?
Usually people talk in the beginning and then it’s a few hours of sitting and doing nothing and then more mingling before everyone leaves.
It’s super hard to sit for that long. I get fidgety and usually my phone alleviates that.
I’m not talking about sitting and playing angry birds with the volume up, I’m talking just texting my best friend about her divorce/custody drama.
It seems fine to me, but you're asking because you obviously think it might not be. Each situation is different and you're going to have to just feel it out. If it's viewed as inappropriate in certain situations, I'm sure you'll pick up on that.
It seems fine to me, but you're asking because you obviously think it might not be. Each situation is different and you're going to have to just feel it out. If it's viewed as inappropriate in certain situations, I'm sure you'll pick up on that.
I asked because I wasn’t sure.
Everyone at her events is aware that I’m her caregiver and I’m there to assist her. They know I’m not there to “participate” but you never know.
I see no problem with that. I took a pottery class with a woman who always came with a helper as she was awaiting joint replacements and really had very limited lower body mobility. When her husband came with her, he usually sat quietly and read his Kindle unless she needed help moving around, getting something up high off a shelf (although her classmates would also help her with that), or needed other physical assistance. I just thought it was great that he would come and sit with her 4 hours a week while she was doing pottery. Occasionally we’d chat with him about what he liked to read or his hobbies, but for the most part we just left him to read quietly.
I see no problem with that. I took a pottery class with a woman who always came with a helper as she was awaiting joint replacements and really had very limited lower body mobility. When her husband came with her, he usually sat quietly and read his Kindle unless she needed help moving around, getting something up high off a shelf (although her classmates would also help her with that), or needed other physical assistance. I just thought it was great that he would come and sit with her 4 hours a week while she was doing pottery. Occasionally we’d chat with him about what he liked to read or his hobbies, but for the most part we just left him to read quietly.
That’s what I was hoping would be the general consensus.
It’s been and hour and it’s not even close to over.
Funny enough tonight as we were sitting at our table before eating and someone came up to talk to her and said something about the phone in my hand being perfect pacifiers for teenagers. ����
I told him I was 29 but yes it was still a pacifier. ������
Funny enough tonight as we were sitting at our table before eating and someone came up to talk to her and said something about the phone in my hand being perfect pacifiers for teenagers. ����
I told him I was 29 but yes it was still a pacifier. ������
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Rude.
Too bad you couldn't say, "Yep, Grandpa, me with my pacifier and you with your diapers. I guess we're both babies."
Hey, at least you wouldn't be invited back to bingo ... or whatever
Depends on how it was said. Maybe the person was just teasing.
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