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Post by mmeblue on Sept 3, 2019 12:42:22 GMT -5
I am seeing this more and more - people using phones to play videos or games or other things with sound and no headphones in public places (like restaurants). Totally fine? Totally rude? Different rules for kids vs adults using the devices? Starting a thread here instead of confronting the people at the table next to me.  |
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Post by emmjay on Sept 3, 2019 13:38:23 GMT -5
Annoying and rude. Inconsiderate. I hate it.
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Post by mimi on Sept 3, 2019 13:42:57 GMT -5
I hate it too. My phone almost always stays on silent/vibrate. I hate hearing the music/sound, even on the games I play myself. I have my computer at work on mute too.
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Post by realcranky on Sept 3, 2019 14:05:45 GMT -5
Totally rude, and I include my beloved dh when he sits next to me and doesn’t use earphones. LOL
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Post by GiftOfFlavor on Sept 3, 2019 14:51:24 GMT -5
Totally rude and makes me crazy on airplanes... these people should be publicly shamed.
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Post by emmjay on Sept 3, 2019 14:58:34 GMT -5
Totally rude and makes me crazy on airplanes... these people should be publicly shamed. Yes! It’s the worst on planes. So many kids watching movies and playing games with the volume cranked up. |
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Sept 3, 2019 15:22:56 GMT -5
Totally rude - and I don't care the age. A few years ago ds and I were on a train trip and the woman in front of us handed her two very young children an ipad with a movie on it and then just ignored them. The conductor came along and told her they needed headphones (which is their policy) but then looked at me and said "is this bothering you?" No no no lady - don't make me the bad guy here. Enforce your own policies.
Also annoying is people who feel every fucking mundane phone conversation they have needs to be a face time. It doesn't - especially on public transit. Those people often do it on speaker phone so I hear both sides - and sometimes they have the phone angled so the person can see me and vice versa. Which is super obnoxious.
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Post by mmeblue on Sept 3, 2019 15:36:50 GMT -5
I'm glad we all agree. When I see it, part of me wants to say, "Hey, would you mind using headphones?" But then half the time I look over and it's a kid using the device and the parent is sitting there apparently completely fine with it. Today, the little girl was on a phone (singing along with the music videos she was watching!) and the dad was using an ipad...and HE had headphones on. |
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Post by GiftOfFlavor on Sept 3, 2019 18:32:19 GMT -5
I'm glad we all agree. When I see it, part of me wants to say, "Hey, would you mind using headphones?" But then half the time I look over and it's a kid using the device and the parent is sitting there apparently completely fine with it. Today, the little girl was on a phone (singing along with the music videos she was watching!) and the dad was using an ipad...and HE had headphones on. He had headphones so he didn’t have to listen to his annoying kid 😂🤷♀️ |
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Post by Tpatt100 on Sept 3, 2019 18:57:36 GMT -5
At work it seems everybody over 40 doesn’t know that their phones have a vibrate feature....
One guy across from me has an annoying voice notification for text messages
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Post by PB&J on Sept 3, 2019 21:33:39 GMT -5
So rude. Older people are so bad about this. I can't tell you how many older people I see in public listening to videos or talking a speaker phone. Last week I saw a lady on a scooter watching Paula Dean on a tablet while she scootered through the store. My mom is bad about it, too. She'll complain about video watchers or speaker phone people but has the most obnoxious ringtones that she thinks are funny and I really want to toss her phone into the nearest toilet. lol
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Post by Andee on Sept 4, 2019 12:51:37 GMT -5
Rude. My sil only will talk to text. You can be telling her something and the next thing you know she is holding her phone up and telling someone something while looking me right in the eye. Makes me want to stop amy and all conversation. She does it at the supper table too.
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Post by GiftOfFlavor on Sept 4, 2019 14:24:38 GMT -5
Rude. My sil only will talk to text. You can be telling her something and the next thing you know she is holding her phone up and telling someone something while looking me right in the eye. Makes me want to stop amy and all conversation. She does it at the supper table too. Talk to text.. So she wants to talk. Why can’t she just talk on the phone to the person? Instead of converting the talking to text.. this seems redundant. |
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Post by Inky on Sept 4, 2019 19:48:23 GMT -5
I've noticed it more and more too. It's just the way people are now, so conditioned to the phone that they don't think about those around them.
But I have to say, there were a few funny ringtones going around a few years ago. The one that makes me smile - "Alert...Alert...The wife is calling...The wife is calling...Alert!"
And I love the old fashioned ringing bell. Just for the nostalgic factor.
My flip phone doesn't have any loud fancy ringtones or voice stuff for that matter.
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Post by stl on Sept 5, 2019 15:03:09 GMT -5
Rude and I dont care the age.
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Post by TapToTalk on Sept 5, 2019 15:27:11 GMT -5
Last week was at a coffee shop talking with a friend at a table outside, guy next to us was blasting music. Apparently, this guy who kind of looked homeless does this all the time. My friend told him to turn it down or he's bringing his speakers to drown him out next time.
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Post by Mamapalooza on Sept 6, 2019 14:24:55 GMT -5
I don't see this, thank god. But I don't people much so that's probably why.
Mostly I see people walking along with an earphone in, having a phone conversation rather than just holding the phone up to their ear. That's kind of weird, as they tend to talk very loudly.
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Post by marianparoo on Sept 9, 2019 5:56:39 GMT -5
I don't see this, thank god. But I don't people much so that's probably why. Mostly I see people walking along with an earphone in, having a phone conversation rather than just holding the phone up to their ear. That's kind of weird, as they tend to talk very loudly. The first time I saw someone walking down the street conversing on a cell phone I thought it was somebody talking to himself. |
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Sept 9, 2019 13:07:01 GMT -5
I don't see this, thank god. But I don't people much so that's probably why. Mostly I see people walking along with an earphone in, having a phone conversation rather than just holding the phone up to their ear. That's kind of weird, as they tend to talk very loudly. Yes that. But imagine they're doing it on a bus where you're trapped with them for the duration of the trip
The subway in Toronto has been threatening/promising cell service on the trains for ever. I for one hope that day never comes |
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Post by Mamapalooza on Sept 9, 2019 14:24:19 GMT -5
I don't see this, thank god. But I don't people much so that's probably why. Mostly I see people walking along with an earphone in, having a phone conversation rather than just holding the phone up to their ear. That's kind of weird, as they tend to talk very loudly. Yes that. But imagine they're doing it on a bus where you're trapped with them for the duration of the trip
The subway in Toronto has been threatening/promising cell service on the trains for ever. I for one hope that day never comes I don't do buses and subways, or I probably would see this stuff. |
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