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By grounded - This FML is from back in 2011 but it's good stuff - United States

Today, I went to dinner to meet my boyfriend's parents for the first time. I received a text message, so I pulled out my phone to check. Apparently, his parents have a "No phones at the table rule" and took my phone away until I could learn "proper table manners." FML
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AeonForce 0

Are they one of those crazy families that sit in dead silence while they eat, too?

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coolchick1130 9

that's rude on both their parts. OP shouldn't have been texting at the table, that's proper manners. but his parents don't have the right to take it away. they simply could have told her to please put her phone away since it's rude.

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princessspooky 0

That sucks! They`re not even your parents!

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xxxSANAxxx 0

LMFAO im interested in your boyfriends reaction :P

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muka92 6

Meeting someone for the first time usually means phone on silent and don't touch it. If it was an emergency people do know how to call and probably would call if it was important.

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AmbrosiaWriter 17

Okay, but if the phone is on silent how do you know if someone is calling you? If it's on vibrate, how do you tell the difference between text-vibrate and ring-a-ling-vibrate? On my phone they are the same length, so I would have to pull the phone out anyway to see if someone was texting or calling. Which would've gotten my phone taken away from me. When I have my phone I'd rather not excuse myself and get up from the table to just have to quick glance at the screen to see if it's a text/call from someone who can wait or a text/call from family (which I have been taught to respond to immediately.) The excusing and getting up typically comes AFTER the decision on if the text/call is important enough to require immediate attention (IE; it's from my father so I must respond immediately.)

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monster_tamer 11

They're not your parents. They have no right to take your phone.

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philtography01 1

Yeah you had it coming, if I was your boyfriend I would have done before my parents did. You're just a rude person. So you should be treated like a child.

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THE_A_TEEN 27

She deserves to have her property taken by people she has no relation?? Treated like a child? You're spouting bullshit!!

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Jazzalyn 10

FFS people - I'm with #84. Not like OP was spending the entire dinner on the phone. And there's nothing saying she was about to text the person back. ? I mean...if she started to text back while at the table - then that would be rude. And what's to say she wasn't expecting some important message? (Of course - I think the boyfriend should have told her about that rule. Surely he'd know that, if someone texted her, she'd check it right away...)

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THE_A_TEEN 27

Any reasonable person here would agree that what both the parents and the OP did was really rude. Any douchebag (or unjust asshole) would totally agree what the BOYFIRENDS parents did was right (taking her property away, even though the absolutely have no reason or right to do so.).

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Kitsa 3

Alright this is for all of you who keep saying "YDI shouldn't be texting at the table its rude" For starters it was her first time meeting his family and obviously did not know the rules. His parents took the phone and said they would not return it until she had learned some table manners, they said when she learned table manners not "we'll return it after eating" which is basically theft because this is not their daughter nor do they have the right to take her property and say they'll be holding it until they decide to return it. Lastly some families have rules for children to answer all phone calls and texts, my family being one of them. If I miss two calls i'm in deep trouble. For all we know the girls family could have a similar phone rule.

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