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In general, people need to put their phones down a bit. There's no need for the amount of phone calls, texting and posting people do. Live life!

🤣🤣🤣 love this!

Sorry lol

I was riding public transit to work several years ago. There was a woman on the phone with her bank. She was giving all of her personal details to the person on the other end - SS, bank account, and credit card numbers, DOB, etc. out loud. Crazy!

I’m using this. I’ll cite you if it ever come to that. Thank you.

Brilliant

Bonus points if you do it in a mocking whiny voice. 🤣👍

Every damn day…in the gym. Someone is talking on the phone while sitting on the bench I need

I did the same with someone on a speaker phone , stood behind them and had a loud fake phone conversation.😹

You could have set fire to his car (see Breaking Bad, Season 1, Episode 4, "Cancer man").

I can deal with the conversations I'm from a small town. Being nosy and listening to a stranger's life story on the fly is a popular hobby I can even deal with music I like hearing what other people are enjoying. It can be fun even if the tunes are crap. But the GAMES with the random noises 🤯🤯

I just join in the conversation. Seriously…. Try it. Someone once told me that it was “none of my business!” I told them it was everyone’s business in earshot of your private conversation. To which the person on the other end said “Call me back when your not surrounded by people”.

Nek minnit (Kiwi for next minute) "I gotta go. I'll call you later".😉😎

I don’t understand. I listened to a step-by-step of a caller’s basal cell carcinoma removal while in a long line at Walgreens, and it was fascinating. 😀

But did you say it in a funny voice? That's what I would have done.

I'd have loved to give that woman on the bus my opinion on her ob/gyn issues. Her doc didn't seem to be helping, lol.

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Fucking BRILLIANT!!!!!

Same story in Germany. Lots of f...ing idiots who don't understand that nobody gives a fuck about them or with who they are talking on the phone

This is absolutely the ONLY correct response to such... bless-their-heart-ism.

sounds like a defeat for both of you

I always yell: "OKAY BYE LOVE YOOOO" whenever someone "invites" me to join their public phone calls. Especially if it's a serious business call. 😁😁😁

I wish I could've been there. You're one my heroines for all time!!!

Oh, that is a good one. I will need to remember that strategy.

I was in a waiting area at the VA reading when a guy refused to take his call elsewhere when politely asked so I started reading aloud. He continued, as did I, and he told me to be thankful I didn't live in his neighborhood where such behavior would be punished violently. 😁

Well played. I absolutely hate this. Just put the damn phone to your ear. Or if you need to be 'hands free', get some buds. You can get Bluetooth buds for <$20. There is no excuse to be a dick and disrupt everyone else.

Bravo! 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 😂

Ingenious! I'm using it next time it happens.

Not all heroes wear capes

I will use this tactic, thank you!

After longer exposures of people in a public place having conversations with someone else on speakerphone, a friend of mine's practice is to deliberately comment once they hang up: "Sorry your sister isn't feeling well," "Hope your son remembers to take the dog out like you asked," etc.

This is the way. I make sure to make sure everyone in earshot knows every detail of the conversation.

OMG, YES!! I’m SO tired of it!!! It’s rude and annoying, full stop.

Especially when you have the other party on speakerphone and we have to hear both sides of the stupid conversation.

Ha

Social media has trained people this way. Everyone is in their own bubble and nothing, no one, exists outside it. See Doctor Who episode "Bubble and Dot" to get a glimpse of how that turns out.

Yes. Years ago i was in line at my bank, and some young dude was cursing on his phone very loudly. I walked back to him and said you need to carry that conversation outside please cuz everybody can hear it and we are not enjoying it and it's rude. And he was surprised

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I think I’m out of this loop 😂

Double ditto!

Certainly don't intend to cause you pain! Don't have a trunk mounted subwoofer or a car audio that vibrates house windows. Just me and my Mexican neighbors tryin to expand the consciousness of the racist A-hole living up the street with a little Mariachi or a 2/24/74 Darkstar. Trust me, he needs it.

Lmao…Amurica.

As a have of stupid inane conversations I want them to be private.

please send money... we need to protect you from sane rational conversations about normal stuff... ( PS as a hermit... I rarely am in town... and few people call me... usually when they need my help.. you know normal stuff)

…or even the ones about something

TRUTH BE TOLD!! Loudly!

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Agreed

😆 I hear people out for walks across my yard & across the street, 50 yards away talking full-throated on their phones. I think its because they need me to know they believe they are important. 🥱

But they have to show how important they are.

Or listen to your videos you watch in the restaurant booth behind me at full volume.

Scrolling idiotic Facebook threads with speaker on is even worse, as every entry has some dunkka-dunkka-dunkka-crash music on the background.

The worse are those who SCREAM back at their phone with the speaker on full blast.😠

I was out shopping with my sister years ago and we had someone behind us on speaker phone. My sister took out her phone pretending to talk to someone and said "I told you to put the body in the basement!" really loud and then turned around. We then heard "Gotta go"

YES! DAMMIT!

Yeah don’t try that shit on Metro North

OK…I hear ya!

i guess im not that sensitive coz i really dont give a fuck 😄

Also stop wearing ridiculous amounts of perfumes and colognes. Nobody wants to smell you either.

Say it louder!!! 😁🖐🏽💚❤️💙🤍💜

To selfish people every thing is an emergency.

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And listening to the Cars!!

Oh! Thank you! You just answered my question I just replied here. I HATE this crap!

They’re more important than the rest of us…..in their selfish little minds.

Absolutely right. Have you no decorum or pride. Geez🙄

This is why modern Bluetooth devices have encrypted connections.

The people who do this are always having pointless conversations. It’s also a trend here to play music over the speakerphone while cycling. It’s always lame music, too. Never anything cool or interesting. Just not worth sharing. It must just be the type of person they are.

Or just put the phone up to your ear talk softly!

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I share your pain. I've just a month ago come back from an 11 week traipse around my whole country - every state, both mainland territories. The number of cities where I needed 360⁰ vision because of these cyclo-dicks. I never got knocked down and in the back of an ambulance 🚑, but only just.

My god I hate when people do that. Especially in waiting rooms at Dr, fhey have volume full blast on a game or video. I almost want to look at them and say, " do you have any fucking decency? "

THIS! THIS!! THIS!!!

Somethings that need to be said Should be done behind closed doors Not for all & sundry to hear about the wild night of passion they had with half the street while sat on a bus ..I mean I was embarrassed for them 😳😉😁✌️

Ppl are old dumb and deaf and have no idea how to do the iPhones They don’t even know how to use it much less if you can hear it The younger ones are just dumb and oblivious

I've been saying this for YEARS!! 😅

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No shit. Why would anyone do that?

Unless of course you're trashing Trump and/or MAGA

You can buy earbuds so cheap. No excuses!!! For phone calls, excuse yourself.

And especially out in the woods and on the greenways. We are there to escape that. Don't want to hear your preaching or music, either. FFS, you can buy earbuds at Walmart for < $10, Bubba.

I dunno it is fun hearing both sides instead of just one

To the people who have conversations thru their car infotainment systems — there is volume control! Look it up and turn it the f*ck down! I don’t want to hear you yapping from two blocks down the street.

Speakerphones? Pah! I live opposite the local high school. Don't get me started on cars with subwoofers at high volume in the parking lot at 7am.

1000%

That is one of my greatest annoyances... along with parents that give their toddlers their phones to watch some kids show on max volume at the Dr office. I dont know when this became ok. My other peeve is people talking on the phone when they are being served at a fastfood/coffee shop.

I'm on the phone, here

I assume they live in a narcissistic bubble with their needs first and are bewildered that there are other people with other views of the world

What I see a lot on our greenway is old people sharing a phone. I guess the little woman can't have her own phone.

IKR. Sitting in a stall in the mensroom last week and the guy next to me says, "Hey how are you, how's your day been?". I said "Fine and you?" Then he whispered a BIT loud, "I'll call you back later". 😳😱

Ah so it's them

Yep, the "phones give you cancer and vaccines make you autistic" caucus, who received their MDs from Ripley's Believe It Or Not Medical School.

They cant get brain cancer when they lack the brain

Then they shouldn’t get a cell phone. 

They think others want to hear every thought that enters their so-called brain 🧠 🤣 🙄 😂 😐 😒

Morons gonna moron

Ive had this exact conversation with my dad, daily almost. People have ZERO social situational awareness, especially if they're on a phone.

I agree. They have not yet developed any sort of civic consciousness. They were not properly raised, although I've found that can come with experience, we need to model ourselves what we want to see in others.

You never hear an intelligent conversation happening in this way.

I can say from embarrassing experience that people do not know they are going deaf. There can be every imaginable and obvious indicator and still people will not comprehend their deafness. Mea culpa. I did not know other people could hear my phone conversations on high volume, because I could not.

Im literally deaf in one ear so I HAVE to use speaker phone to still be able to be aware of my surroundings.

And the DOBs and SOBs will give you that stupid look like, “I am so special.”

I have a broken ear speaker in my iPhone. I have to use the loud speaker. I try to be as discreet As possible.

Walked into a coffee shop that was pretty quiet with the exception of the man in the corner holding a full-on conversation on his speakerphone with the volume all the way up. Got my coffee to go.

Totally insanity - Dudes who pretend to conduct important business over the phone while peeing into airport urinals. 🙄

So friggin true.

Some folks are hard of hearing. I am but I also realize not everyone has the funds to buy hearing aides. This is like people getting upset because they are holding a conversation in another language. If they aren’t talking about you ignore them.