Amazing, isn’t it, the way that while bored shop assistants can fail to notice expectant customers for minutes on end, husbands can totally ignore their wives’ every attempt at breakfast table conversation, most people find it impossible to resist a ringing telephone regardless of the circumstances: a mobile phone started to ring and was answered, notes the Daily Mail Is this Steve Curry – football correspondent of the Daily Express? No, came the answer – we’re the people stealing his telephone.