Cell phone etiquette in nail salon

[Anonymous]

So I'm at the nail salon right now (nowhere nice, a run of the mill cheap strip mall place) waiting to be seen. My husband calls me and I take the call. It lasted for about five to seven minutes and I spoke very quietly. This obnoxious lady was staring me down the entire time with her eyebrows raised so high I thought her face was going to fall off! Since when are you not allowed to take phone calls in these kind of places? Am I in the wrong here? I ended up hurrying off the phone and now I'm mad I did!

[Anonymous]

I think it's okay to take a quick call (like 1 minute) but not a 5 to 7 minute call. You were probably speaking much louder than you think you were.

[Anonymous]

Honestly, I was so quiet I couldn't hear my own voice and dh could barely hear me either.

[Anonymous]

You're waiting to be seen and you're annoying the woman next to you (who is somewhat rude herself to just sit and glare at you rather than to say something polite about it to you). Since you're waiting to be seen, you should walk away from others who don't need to listen to your conversation with your DH. Walk over to the door, or tell one of the staff that you're going to step outside the door to take the call. Besides considering how beautiful a day it is outside, why wouldn't you want to step outside to take the call?

I don't think any call more than a minute is appropriate in a public place where someone else has to be to receive service.

[Anonymous]

There was a thread about cell phone use last week. Bottom line is that you're much more annoying to others than you realize.

[Anonymous]

In the waiting area? How is taking a call any different from carrying on a conversation with the person you are sitting next to?

[Anonymous]

For crying out loud, OP was in a nail salon, not a funeral home!! The folks who work at my neighborhood nail salon are chatting on their bluetooths constantly, and lots of the customers are on their phones as well. Who cares? It's not like you're sitting there trying to solve nuclear physics equations. Everyone there is zoning out, reading People or cosmo. OP, I wouldn't have cared one iota if you were on the phone, I totally disagree with the PPs. There are places where it's inappropriate to talk on your cell phone, but the nail salon? not one of them, IMO.

[Anonymous]

Polite thing would have been to step outside. The polite thing is to not glare at someone who was apparently trying to talk quietly.

Nail salon isn't a funeral home, and it wasn't anything serious, but she wasn't "it's fine, no problem" either. It's a gray line and the glaring woman's entitled to her opinion too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For crying out loud, OP was in a nail salon, not a funeral home!! The folks who work at my neighborhood nail salon are chatting on their bluetooths constantly, and lots of the customers are on their phones as well. Who cares? It's not like you're sitting there trying to solve nuclear physics equations. Everyone there is zoning out, reading People or cosmo. OP, I wouldn't have cared one iota if you were on the phone, I totally disagree with the PPs. There are places where it's inappropriate to talk on your cell phone, but the nail salon? not one of them, IMO.

totally agree with this! the convos between friends who came together or the ladies who work their are often louder and more annoying than someone chatting on their cell. that lady who glared at you was in a bad mood abotu something else...

[Anonymous]

OP, It is 75 degrees and you are at a strip mall. Please just step outside.

[Anonymous]

No really. You're much more annoying than you realize. That's a fact.

[Anonymous]

I switched salons because people like you, OP.

Just because the place is cheap it doesn't mean people are allowed to be rude.

The nail techs don't talk among themselves in their language, they don't take calls while shaving my foot and they have signs all over asking people to take their calls outside.

I love that place and it's soooooooo cheap! They're always packed and playing nice instrumental songs in the background with movies on TV with close caption. The perfect getaway for lunch hour.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No really. You're much more annoying than you realize. That's a fact.

[Anonymous]

OP here:

15:50- this is NOT my salon at. all. In fact what you described is the exact opposite. The tv is blaring, people are talking to each other loudly, and the nail techs ARE talking to each other in their native languages. There are no signs about cell phones! I would never use a cell phone in an area with a sign. I just don't see how me talking on the phone to dh (VERY QUIETLY) is any worse than two people talking to each other- esp when they are considerably louder than me? Also, for what it's worth, I was at least 10 ft away from any other people. Going outside is not a bad idea and I would have done so except there was no space to sit outside and I wanted to sit down (I am 8 months pregnant).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here:

15:50- this is NOT my salon at. all. In fact what you described is the exact opposite. The tv is blaring, people are talking to each other loudly, and the nail techs ARE talking to each other in their native languages. There are no signs about cell phones! I would never use a cell phone in an area with a sign. I just don't see how me talking on the phone to dh (VERY QUIETLY) is any worse than two people talking to each other- esp when they are considerably louder than me? Also, for what it's worth, I was at least 10 ft away from any other people. Going outside is not a bad idea and I would have done so except there was no space to sit outside and I wanted to sit down (I am 8 months pregnant).

15:50 here, I'm 39 weeks and walked out to talk just last Saturday.

OP, you were annoying the lady, as soon as you saw the way she was looking at you you should have walked out or hung up. Sorry. Just because everybody is being rude and don't have any manners you'll join the crowd? Sorry but my manners don't depend on the environment where I am.