Yelling from Room to Room to Communicate: Classless?

Question

When I visit my boyfriend's parents house, his mother never leaves the kitchen whether she's cooking or not. His father never leaves his chair in front of the big screen television in the living room, one room over from the kitchen. His mother tries to hold a conversation with the father by literally yelling/screaming from room to room to the father, and the father (barely interested) replies by screaming back. I've heard his father say that they shouldn't communicate from different rooms, but the mother continues to do it. It gives me a headache and I find it classless above all. Did Emily Post or anyone ever say anything about doing this? Do you think it shows classlessness?

Answer 1

lazy and classless. I can't stand it. Actually, I do not respond to people who yell at me from another room. If they want to talk then they can come to me and do it in a respectful manner. If they ask why I didn't answer then I explain I don't appreciate being yelled at and don't feel like shouting back.

Answer 2

I hate yelling. My mother and sister only communicate through yelling, even when in the same room. They are incapable of holding a polite and civil conversation. Sometimes I have to just leave the house if they're both home because I can't stand it.

Answer 3

Wahl, we-uns down to the homestead, we do that, all the time. Why, if it weren't fer the hollerin', ain't no one'd git anything said (pause to spit tobacco juice).

I 'member one summer, 'specially, Pa was out the front porch, an' he hollered to Ma, "Y'all got bacon fer the dawg?", and Ma, in the kitchen, didn't heerd him a-right, and that was the night she served up Ol' Yeller in a pie crust. Well, hell's bells.

Pa decided that day that it weren't no good hollerin' from room ta room, so's he done took out the wall and now it's like one big room inside, and we-uns hear most ev'erthing jest fine, now.

Answer 4

classless and irritating. My wife likes to do that. I usually just won't answer unless she comes in the room where I am, or I go to the room she is in.

Answer 5

I think this sounds like a house that is lived in. I love it. Every family is not the same. If your boyfriend's family did everything exactly like your family, then why even bother to be with him.

Answer 6

My mum does this. So I really can't say anything bad about it.

But yeah, it be nice if she could find a better way (perhaps we should get lots of intercoms at home).

Answer 7

Who the hell is emily post? Should I know her?

I agree I think it's annoying. If it's just something simple like "Don't forget to turn off the stove", then it's okay, but a whole conversation?? No thanks.

Answer 8

Lazy.

Answer 9

you rather have them to call each other on the cell phone from one room to another? ha ha h ha

Answer 10

idea dont judge them buy them an intercom for the next holiday