[ApplegateRanch]

... laughing and shrieking and talking so loudly that you can't even hear people at your own table.

Amen, Cindy! It is the WAY they are talking, not to whom, nor by whaich means that matters.

Discrete cell phone speakers trump noisy table talkers in the politeness category every time.

We have a lot of musical events hereabouts, but we rarely attend any more; not because of cell phones, but because of the self centered motor-mouths.

[CindyDawg]

I went to a nursing capping and graduation recently. Cell phones were going off and people were laughing and talking loudly the entire time, even while our state senator was speaking.