Cellphone in meeting

I depends on who are you meeting with. If you are meeting with your staff (or anybody who's position is below you), then you can answer your phone. However, if you are meeting with a superior, it's not proper to interrupt the meeting just to answer a phone call. Now, if the matter is really urgent, the caller can call somebody else, for example, your secretary, a staff or even a co-worker. Then this somebody can go to you personally to deliver the urgent message. Only until then, that you can interrupt the meeting, whoever it is you're meeting with (of course, offering utmost apology).

I think it depends on different perspective. he may sound very sweet a sa husband. but there are some office etiquettes. those things should be observed as I think.

I do get his point though, there are wives I guess who just call out of the blue for nothing, that's why people have the tendency not to answer these calls when in a meeting (because they're used to just hearing the other person on the line say unimportant stuff). While for his case, he and his wife obviously had a serious talk about when to call and not to call, so when the wife called, maybe he knew that it was really a call he had to get. As for me, I usually would excuse myself to answer a call and tell the person that I'd call him/her back soon after my important meeting. It wouldn't be rude if you just had a second or two, but if you're really chatting with someone on the phone which has completely stopped the meeting, then that's rude. But when my parents do call, I would receive it no matter what. I have this setting on my phone to change the tone when it's them who's calling and that even if it's in silent mode, when my parents do call, it would ring. =)