Phone calls at dinner time.

Ignore. Definitely.

I ignore. MrMini answers. Drives me mad.

I can always tell which parent calls the landline as well (they are the only people who ever use it) Mil hangs on for up to 2 mins (I have timed this) baring in mind we dont have an answer machine! Why? 6 or 7 rings is enough- we hardly live in a mansion!

I am glad it's not just me being a mean witch!

MIL rings every night at 7:30 - she knows I currently get back from work every evening between 6:15 and 6:45 so chances are i'll be either preparing dinner, eating dinner or showering. Yet she rings, and when I ignore she puts the receiver down and re-dials.. It drives me totally bonkers!

I suspect I may also be the teeniest bit guilty of this, just a teeny bit you understand... ?

My Mum used to repeat dial until once, when asked me why it took a few goes for me to answer, I told her we do a lot of shagging and she seemed to catch us in the middle. She never repeat dials now.

Definatley ignore, especially with a house phone where you can't even see who it is. Whenever I get up to answer it it's usually cold calling or similar!!

I dont answer anymore because it tended to be cold callers.

I amswer it but just say "we are in the middle of dinner will call you back"

If tis someone I am not in the mood to talk to I screen and ignore.

Hahaha!

I ignore. But to be honest I always ignore my house phone - its normally a sales call and we have an answering machine for anything important. I ignore my mobile when I'm eating too, as does OH.

Definitely ignore - let the answer machine pick it up. I don't do it just over dinner either. If I'm in the middle of a film or something I won't pick up. It'll only be either set of parents if it's the land line and I need to be in the right mood to speak to either. Blimey I'm an awful DIL/daughter!

Same LM totally ignore pjone during dinner, we both do! it goes to answerphone anyway

I will ignore it, the answerphone will catch it.

Our phone displays the number (or who it is if we have put the number in the memory), H will answer it if it's his sisters or his mum. I definitely, absolutely 100% will not answer it if it is his sisters or mum.

This! MIL2B KNOWS we eat 6-6.30, we've told her countless times, but does that stop her ringing? Noooooo.

LM is she ringing you every night still even though H is away?

My mum knows we have dinner and boys bath time between 5 and 7 , so im safe on that one but i always end with some random calling me asking me to do a survey or do i need a new kitchen?!!

I have to say my mum always manages to call me when ive just got in the bath ,without fail!!

I do this generally.

My nana will often ring me first if ever anything ever happens to her so I would never ignore the phone in case it is something serious.

We only plug the house phone in if we need to phone expensive numbers that arent included on free minutes on our mobiles ie booking holidays, paying credit cards, I actually dont even know the number as where the phine socket is there isnt a place for it to go! So we just have our mobiles, and no I dont answer during dinner neither does H.

Anyone who calls me at dinner time must not know me, or it's my mother and it's really urgent. I do answer - if it's a sales or cold call I will hang up - BT have a habit of calling me at 5.50pm to try and persuade me to get their broadband service. If it's my mum I'll tell her we're eating and call her back.

I did have a weird on the other day - an automated survey that I couldn't hand up on - I tried 3 times to disconnect and it was still there when I picked up the reciever. We had to unplug the phone at the wall to disconnect - I thought that kind of call was illegal.

We ignore it, its usually mum checking in with us...She must have a sensor stuck to her head that lets her know our bums have touched the seats of the chairs at the dinner table and that this is the time to phone us... I always return her call though, Im a good girl ?

I do this as we don't have set dinner times, any time between 6pm - 10pm depending on our plans that day.

I always answer. I would drive myself mad wondering who it was if I didn't.