Originally Posted by agarc

I bet they (FAs) were just so tired of asking people all day to turn off their stupid devices, they just couldn't bare to ask one more person to do the same.

If you knew it was time to turn off your device, why did you wait?

I don't operate under the belief that keeping your ipod/ipad on during take off and landing will do any real harm. However, in an emergency, someone on their headphones may become a bottleneck to the other passengers trying to flee the looming disaster.

But seriously, isn't it rude and disrespectful to not turn off your device? Can you imagine what it's like if it was your job to enforce safety rules and regulations, but all day and night you encounter passengers who think they know better and refuse to follow the rules? Having to constantly ask people to turn off their devices? Gosh that would be so irritating!

To each their own. But it seems rude and disrespectful.