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Idiots who place private phone calls on speaker in public places

Posted on 9/7/22 at 3:55 pm
Posted by chinhoyang
Member since Jun 2011
25648 posts
Posted on 9/7/22 at 3:55 pm
I'm waiting for the SO to come out of day surgery yesterday. Some old bag in the waiting room calls some doctor's office on her cell phone - with the call on speaker at high volume.

She talks about some medicine causing her to vomit all the time and expresses concern about getting diarrhea. The loud conversation went out for five minutes or so.

I never understand why people want to broadcast their personal business publicly.


There was only two other people in the waiting room - a hard of hearing guy and a young woman who looked at me and rolled her eyes.
Posted by OldHickory
New Orleans
Member since Apr 2012
10771 posts
Posted on 9/7/22 at 3:58 pm to
Everything you love about speaker phone is because of…
Posted by ehidal1
Chief Boot Knocka
Member since Dec 2007
37322 posts
Posted on 9/7/22 at 3:58 pm to
people are completely losing their social skills and being considerate. it was gradually getting bad but lockdowns accelerated it.
Posted by CatfishJohn
Member since Jun 2020
19038 posts
Posted on 9/7/22 at 4:01 pm to
Should be ticketed by police.

And then kicked in the genitalia.
Posted by biglego
San Francisco
Member since Nov 2007
83154 posts
Posted on 9/7/22 at 4:01 pm to
They just forget to take the phone off speaker after parking the Charger in a handicapped spot.
Posted by genuineLSUtiger
Nashville
Member since Sep 2005
77152 posts
Posted on 9/7/22 at 4:04 pm to
I would have called 911.
Posted by JetsetNuggs
Member since Jun 2014
15320 posts
Posted on 9/7/22 at 4:04 pm to
Posted by Hester Carries
Member since Sep 2012
25128 posts
Posted on 9/7/22 at 4:05 pm to
quote:

Idiots who place private phone calls on speaker in public places


Idiots of color is appropriate nomenclature, you bigot.
Posted by Abstract Queso Dip
Member since Mar 2021
5878 posts
Posted on 9/7/22 at 4:07 pm to
Boomers invented speakerphone... Just sayin
Posted by facher08
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2011
5618 posts
Posted on 9/7/22 at 4:12 pm to
America is becoming too fat and/or lazy to hold the telephone to their ear. Sad, that this isn't a joke.
This post was edited on 9/7/22 at 4:13 pm
Posted by armsdealer
Member since Feb 2016
12274 posts
Posted on 9/7/22 at 4:13 pm to
I got to listen to some strange girl talk to her "man" while heating up her stank arse lunch today.
Posted by Slagathor
Makin' jokes about your teeny tiny
Member since Jul 2007
38952 posts
Posted on 9/7/22 at 4:17 pm to
I'm annoyed when strangers do it but I'm beyond mortified (like want to melt into the floor and die) if anyone in my group does it in my presence.

Talking to anyone that puts me on speakerphone makes me irrationally angry too.


Hope your SO is recovering well
Posted by chinhoyang
Member since Jun 2011
25648 posts
Posted on 9/7/22 at 4:21 pm to
The assumptions are wrong - it was a white woman.
Posted by chinhoyang
Member since Jun 2011
25648 posts
Posted on 9/7/22 at 4:23 pm to
quote:

people are completely losing their social skills and being considerate. it was gradually getting bad but lockdowns accelerated it.


After the offending call ended, I thought about pretending to make a call to loudly discuss something highly offensive (hemorrhoids, spray diarrhea, draining genital warts) but I'm not sure the woman would have understood what I was doing.
Posted by Tigers13
New Orleans
Member since Feb 2005
1801 posts
Posted on 9/7/22 at 4:24 pm to
I've always said that common courtesy is what separates the trash from the decent folks.
Posted by Sidicous
NELA
Member since Aug 2015
19296 posts
Posted on 9/7/22 at 4:46 pm to
quote:

Some old bag
quote:

with the call on speaker at high volume.



Probably hard of hearing "old bag" and the only way she can hear the phone clearly. And most old women were not indoctrinated to follow the rules of today, rather the rules of yesteryear.

You can always walk away out of hearing range if it offends you so much.


BTW, if no one has ever told you ...
Women will talk about the most disgusting health issues plainly and openly. Get them in a group and you will hear non-stop about menstrual issues, gastric issues, bowel issues, etc..
Posted by TeaParty
Member since May 2022
935 posts
Posted on 9/7/22 at 4:56 pm to
Probably a good time to paly some tunes on yours on speaker while searching the internet so you don't have to look at her.
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
72850 posts
Posted on 9/7/22 at 4:58 pm to
Posted by ATLtigeaux
Da A-T-L Playa!
Member since Mar 2004
473 posts
Posted on 9/7/22 at 5:23 pm to
I like to get close to these people and very loudly announce
“Who shite in the coffee pot” or
“Jesus lady, put your u underwear back on” or
“Look at the balls on that cockroach” or
“ put you dick back in your pants”
Might as well have a little fun with it
This post was edited on 9/7/22 at 5:24 pm
Posted by JoePepitone
Waffle House #1494
Member since Feb 2014
11783 posts
Posted on 9/7/22 at 5:28 pm to
I encountered this twice today.

At lunch a couple at a table near me decided to play crappy music on one of their mobile phones at max volume.
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