Originally Posted by WeekendTraveler

My situation was perfectly polite; I was polite and the guy who was blaring his phone was polite. Miss Manners had written a column a while back about this situation and my offering earphones to the person blaring a phone was deemed acceptable by Miss Manners.

No need to involve lounge employees (and they may not want to get involved anyway) over a minor thing that's very easily and politely remedied. Amtrak conductors often won't shush people in the quiet car; lounge employees often won't shush people who are blaring phones, etc. Only on planes do I regularly see crew shushing people who are blaring their phones.