Who DOES this? (in a restaurant in cleveland park...)

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[Post New]04/09/2011 21:36
Anonymous
So today I went to a restaurant in Cleveland Park with my husband. It was about 4 pm, which granted, is a weird time to be eating. The restaurant was almost empty and the hostess sat us smack next to the one other table of customers.

There were two women and a baby, about a year old. The one year old was banging and being shrieky but whatever. I can deal with that. What I could not deal with is when the mother pulled her phone out and starting making calls - she was a doctor!! And her calls went like this:

"Hello this is doctor _______, bla bla bla. Okay, well is she sexually active yet? Is there a history of uterine cancer? bla bla bla"

This all happened within the first five minutes of us sitting down. I asked the waitress if we could move tables and we moved across the restaurant. I saw the woman continue to make phone calls for the next hour that we were there. Who does that? In a sushi restaurant? It seems rather unprofessional on the part of the mother/doctor and just rude. Like other restaurant patrons want to hear that.
[Post New]04/09/2011 21:41
Anonymous
That's the DC area! Honestly, I'm not shocked at allsnd if you had said something you would have been wrong kn her eyes. Such ridiculous entitled ppl in this area!
[Post New]04/09/2011 21:42
Anonymous
I thought this was the parenting forum. Yes, this is annoying. No, it has nothing to do with parenting.
[Post New]04/09/2011 21:45
Anonymous
It's prob in here bc the woman had a baby and ignored it while making calls.
[Post New]04/09/2011 21:47
cuzimawesome
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Yeah. This wouldn't bother me. At all.
[Post New]04/09/2011 21:53
Anonymous
Who goes to the restaurant at 4pm anyway?
[Post New]04/09/2011 21:57
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Who goes to the restaurant at 4pm anyway?
fewer
I do, with my toddler. Two reasons:

1. he's exhausted and it's a place he'll sit down
2. few other patrons around, so if his "restaurant manners" need correcting, other people are spared hearing me talk about it
[Post New]04/09/2011 22:00
Anonymous
I would have found it amusing, but I also would have asked to move. Why did the server seat you right there anyway? I hate it when they do that in an empty restaurant.
[Post New]04/09/2011 23:23
Anonymous
OP has a mouth and she should have asked to be seated elsewhere because she said the baby was shrieking. I don't care where or when the Dr. made her phone calls and can't understand why OP thinks it is so bad. A shrieking baby is a whole different matter.
[Post New]04/10/2011 00:39
Anonymous
I completely disagree with the spirit of 23:23's post.

A loud baby does not know better, and may even still be cute doing it.

But an adult making professional calls
1. loudly and
2. of a private and confidential nature
is completely unacceptable!
[Post New]04/10/2011 04:17
Anonymous
OP, did it occur to you that the other table was just as annoyed as you that the hostess seated you so close to them? And that they went into the restaurant at 4 pm for the very same reason as you? They had a baby and hoped for down time for the baby and the doctor mom to make her phone calls? She didn't sit down next to you, you sat down next to her. She was obviously returning a patient's phone call -- what was she supposed to do, hang up on her patient when you sat down next to her? If you were that patient waiting for a phone call from your doctor, waiting and waiting and waiting because you were bleeding, or had urinary pain, what would you have wanted -- for your doctor to say "Oh, so sorry, I have to go now. I'll call you when I have complete and total privacy." Why didn't YOU move away more quickly? And why the hell don't you take five minutes to consider situations from the other person's point of view before you decide you are the aggrieved party?
[Post New]04/10/2011 05:33
Anonymous
Op, just wondering, when you call your doctor on a saturda or when he / she returns your calls on sat or sunday, where do you think they usually are? Do you really think that they drive to the office to sit in complete privacy to return your calls?

I was really expecting something outrageous, rather than GASP a doctor returning calls from an empty restaurant. Agree with above, before sitting on the chair, you should have suggested a different table to the hostess - thus eliminating the whole need for your dissatisfaction, irritation and the need for this post. If i was already sitting on a table and a family came seated themselves smack beside me in an empty restaurant, and then started giving me looks (which you probably did) - I would be beyond annoyed.

[Post New]04/10/2011 07:42
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Op, just wondering, when you call your doctor on a saturda or when he / she returns your calls on sat or sunday, where do you think they usually are? Do you really think that they drive to the office to sit in complete privacy to return your calls?

I was really expecting something outrageous, rather than GASP a doctor returning calls from an empty restaurant. Agree with above, before sitting on the chair, you should have suggested a different table to the hostess - thus eliminating the whole need for your dissatisfaction, irritation and the need for this post. If i was already sitting on a table and a family came seated themselves smack beside me in an empty restaurant, and then started giving me looks (which you probably did) - I would be beyond annoyed.



Not the OP but I have a FIL who is a pediatrician and on call sometimes on weekends. He obviously doesn't drive to his office just to take phone calls, but he'll excuse himself and go to a quiet room/outside etc. He would never talk to a patient (well technically a patient's parent) sitting at a restaurant table.

I don't want to sit at a restaurant and hear anyone talking about vaginal bleeding or diarrhea or anything else like that. I don't care if it's a doctor returning calls or patient talking to their doctor or whatever. I would have asked to be moved immediately.
[Post New]04/10/2011 11:51
Anonymous
Doctors like my DH know that it is rude to consult on the phone loudly with strangers nearby. You go somewhere more private, it is not that hard! Then there is the whole confidentiality thing. Being a doctor does not excuse you from basic etiquette.
[Post New]04/10/2011 11:58
Anonymous
Yeah, lots of people like that. It's almost like they are missing the discretion part of the brain sorta like adults who seem to have no concept of inside voice. Maybe genetic but probably environment and attitude.
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