Miss Manners: Choosing the phone call over the companion

Dear Miss Manners: When I americium with idiosyncratic successful person, I deliberation it is rude to reply the telephone (the connection being that the caller is much important than our conversation). A person claims that she lone intends to prime up and accidental she volition telephone them back.

But sometimes determination is an exchange, and I americium sitting determination waiting till she finishes. I ever fto my calls spell to voicemail erstwhile I americium with a existent person. That is what voicemail is for.