It's not even a generational thing. Boomers have some of the worst etiquette. When I grew up it was rude to call people at dinner time. If you called someone

It's not even a generational thing. Boomers have some of the worst etiquette. When I grew up it was rude to call people at dinner time. If you called someone while they were eating it was either ignored, sent to answering machine, or it was answered with a curt "we're eating" before hanging up. This was the 1990s. When I got my first cellphone, I made a point of excusing myself and leaving a room if it rang because that's how I was raised. These days boomers seem to have forgotten this etiquette they impressed upon Gen X and Millennials. They answer their phones on speakerphone whenever without excusing themselves and and are completely unapologetic. People in general today have no concern for walking around in public while having a phone call and get offended if you mistake their conversation and acknowledge them. As rude as it might seem to keep Airpods in all of the time, they have at least saved us from having to listen to other people carrying on and give a visual queue to ignore someone speaking around you.