"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> S Viemeister wrote:
>>gtr wrote:
>>> S Viemeister said:
>>>> Ophelia wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> A couple of months ago we were invited to a neighbour's house for an
>>>>> evening. They kept the tv on for the entire time! Turned very low
>>>>> but,
>>>>> I found it really hard to relax and just chat. It was a large screen
>>>>> too
>>>>> and it just dominated the room Tbh, lovely people though they are,
>>>>> I doubt we will spend an evening there with them again.
>>>>>
>>>> That sort of thing drives me up the wall. I was taught that it was
>>>> rude to leave the TV on when guests arrived.
>>>
>>> I simply ask people to turn it off, and they always oblige.
>>>
>>I would never do that, as a guest in someone's home.
>
> You need to grow a pair. If they'd rather watch TV you're not a guest
> in their home, you're an intrusion. Were I invited to someone's home
> where they'd rather watch TV I'd make an early departure and never
> accept another of their invites.

No, they weren't watching it. It was just on and the sound very low. The
were chatting to us all the time and never once watching the tv. Had they
been watching it, I would have made an excuse and we would have left. Other
than the tv being on, it was a most enjoyable visit.

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