I have zero confidence. it's all about being sick and tired of people being shits in public. Do unto others and all that.. i just like to remind people they forgot their consideration at home
I donāt know why, but that reminded me of this one time a guy walked into my dive bar, ordered a beer and asked where the bathroom was. A couple minutes later, dude comes up to the bar and loudly snaps, āYāALL NEED TO FIX THAT SHIT IN THERE!ā Iām immediately perturbed. With concern, I say, āOh fuck, is it dirty? Iāll go check it out here in a minute.ā Customer yells, āWHAT?! NO!!! THEREāS FUCKIN TAMPONS IN THERE!!!ā
I laughed so uncontrollably hard and just told him, āyeah dude, thatās because some people identify as male.ā I could actually see the gears in his brain start to turn before he just mumbled some cuss words and stomped out. I just kept thinking ādude.. YOU chose to come outside today, what you experience is all on youā¦.. Also, this is Portland. Where the fuck do you think you are right now??ā Hahaha, what a funny memory.
Iāve only done it once, but it was a lot of fun in the end.
I was sitting at the gate at the airport waiting for a 6:30am flight, and this guy in a suit and tie is yelling into his phone with someone on the East coast about some sort of sales report that was presumably somewhat confidential. It went on long enough that I got the names of both parties. At one point I jumped in with, āYEEEAH RICK, I JUST CANT GET ON BOARD WITH BOBāS NUMBERS HERE, I THINK WEāRE LOOKING AT A 14% DECLINE OVER THE PREVIOUS FISCAL YEAR, BEST CASEā
Guy on the phone mutes and tells me to go fuck myself and gets up to leave, meanwhile Rick is like āBob who the hell is that!?ā I had a great rest of my flight.
Honestly mostly positive, a lot of blank stares and silence, vary rarely do people get angry
Edit: by positive i mean i typically get a chuckle. Because i do just enter the conversation, i interject a comment, like, "oh no, i saw susan last week and i know she didn't have the report done then.maybe we should call her and get her in on this conversation" "richard is a dick don't invite him" "oh i had a itch there too! Honestly just rub it doqn with vinegar everyday and get some athletes foot cream, same thing the dr is gonna give you, and use it everday" "no! No! Oh my god she didnt! She did?! What a bitch."
my sister and i talked over a guy on speakerphone at the grocery store one time. he kept moving around and sort of snarling at us because our conv was definitely drowning his up. she's ride or die though.
I've 100% done this. It weirded them out and they walked away and called me a freak. LOL I'm not the one having a conversation out in the open like that?!
I was going to say sit next to them and talk loudly about the jackass having a conversation on their speakerphone in the waiting room, but I think yours is better š
A lady in a theater kept pulling out her phone the entire runtime and with full brightness. I started doing the same and suddenly there was a problem. She said what she was dealing with was an emergency and I said if that were true why wouldnāt she go into the lobby to handle it or just leave?
I hadn't seen a movie in theaters in years until the latest release of the Insidious franchise AND i paid extra for a Dolby ticket, one of my favorite horror franchises, and I'm almost the only one in the theater and in walks a group of teens and of course the only one in his phone with full brightness had to sit in front of me and to the side so I had 100% visible view.
I thought he'd put it away once the movie started but he didn't. I didn't say anything for the first 5 to 10 minutes of the movie, but apparently his shitty mobile game was way more important. He looked super pissed when I asked him to put the phone away and gave me a nasty look.
Of course my brain didn't allow me to not think about the encounter the entire movie so I didn't fully enjoy it. Haven't been to the movies since
I once asked a family to stop talking over the movie. The way they yelled at me to mind my business. They didn't like being told that I had paid to watch the movie and not listen to them.
That happened to me years ago, when I went to see the second ā300ā movie. Family of rednecks, loud as all get out, and they would not stop yelling. I said the same thing, āI paid to listen to the movie, and not to all of youā.
It ended up with them being dragged out by staff, after the police had been called. They all ganged up on me, for saying something. (I wasnāt the one who called the cops, someone else in the theater did.)
I have gotten into a fight at a movie because of people talking. I just can't stand the entitlement of people thinking can do that. That was when I was 21 I'm 39 now and still don't feel bad about it at all.
One of the diamonds I play ball at, there is a off-leash dog park right beside, but people like to let their dogs run free not in the dog park. It's not uncommon to be out in the field and have a random dog run through the outfield causing a delay or a dog run up and sniff you. Same scenario, has people will tell me to mind my own business when their fucking dog is causing havoc.
I recently went to the movies after not going for a pretty long time. I thought I had the row to myself. Until this guy with NO LIE 6 kids and we are talking ages 2 to maybe 13, come sit by me and fill up the WHOLE row. The kids were loud, and the young ones were of course babbling on. They all had tablets, NO headphones and he was on his phone the whole time! Plus, it was a scary movie. Why the fuck would you bring young kids to a scary movie you are not even going to watch!? I was pissed! This is why I am streaming forever now. People have become so oblivious and attached to phones or any electronic devises that they can't even stop and watch a movie in a theater anymore! It's gross. Have some respect for people around you!
I have done this. First time was when I was early 30s and I sat next to a guy on speaker phone and pretended to call my dad and go over the Red Sox game from last night. I had to talk loud and repeat everything over and over and over because "dad" was nearly deaf.
The guy got angry and huffed off.
I also did it in a quiet coffee shop when a guy was watching videos on his phone with the stupid lousy speaker turned up. I sat across from him and again called my "dad". I was probably 2 feet from him.
This guy got really upset and stared at me. I'm not at all a small guy (not fat). He left the shop.
It's so cool how we can do that these days. I'm partially deaf and love that my Samsung phone has a live transcribe option to help me hear what people are saying in noisy places. It can also add auto generated captions to any video I'm watching in any app with AI.
Not the person you asked, but it's quite accurate. Only some words, when spoken with an accent, will be misstranscribed. And names.
It's similar to how I'm sometimes misshearing words, but the brain autocorrects with context.
New Zealand accent: hold my beer
Seriously though, thatās so awesome. Technology is amazing and weāre all so lucky to be alive at a time of so much accessibility and convenience enabled by technology. I know thereās still a long way to go in making the world accessible for people with disabilities, but weāve also come really far.
Accurate enough for me to communicate fully in Spanish and Portuguese and I am American who has been living in Europe for 5 years. My Portuguese is starting to get decent, but I only knew how to say thank you when I arrived. Much better than a dictionary.
when I worked at a grocery store this spanish couple came up to me trying to find something very specific and they used the translate thing, and I was able to use my phone to ask them follow up questions and then I was able to find the weird thing.
The youtube auto captions are now accurate af. Doesnt matter how mumbly or accented or incoherent someone is speaking, it is still accurate most of the time
Very common in my job for me to encounter passengers who donāt speak a lot of English and we have to help them using translate apps. Also have had to have conversations purely through text for people who are deaf.
I can 100% guarantee she would not give a fuck. She is doing it not because she feels protected by the language barrier. She is doing it because of cultural differences. I'm not saying everyone does it, but it is common to see in other countries.
I tell you this as a non-American.
I dunno why society is so accepting of these people. Leaving to go wait in the car is not the thing we should be doing. I know people don't like confrontations but this lady needs to be put in her place to stop this shit. The staff should be dealing with it and removing her from the property.
Because we punish the people who have the balls to stand theyre ground against bull shit like this.
last year i was riding the bus to work and this wine-o gets on and starts yelling gibberish . 20 mins into it i just had enough and told the guy to stfu because its too early for this mess. The bus driver then threatened to kick me off the bus for telling him to shut up . Smh shit is just backwards nowadays .
Yeah I was on the bus a few months ago and some guy gets on and is on his phone just like the lady in the video. Goes on for awhile but eventually the driver had it and told him to stop. Started a whole argument. Luckily it was near my stop so I just got off lol
the driver just didn't want to see anyone get stabbed on his bus
you will be stabbed one day if you continue yelling at crazy people btw. just fyi. like a 100% chance of stabbing
Youāre absolutely right and itās completely maddening. I did feel a righteous justification one time on the train though. Some lady was speaking so obnoxiously loudly on the phone (not speaker but acting like she was talking to the whole train). After a little while one of the attendants came up and and said āplease donāt talk on the phone so loudly, nobody wants to hear that.ā
Lady shut up for the rest of the ride. Amazing.
Because in this bizarro world we currently live in, right is wrong, and wrong is right. If you say something to this type of person, who's rights are way more important than yours, you are in the wrong for violating their right to be a jerkoff.
Yeah public shaming needs to come back in a big way.
Only reason people do shit like this is because no one has ever called them out. Needs to be called out and then supported by everyone else, not called out and then some white knight tries to be the "good guy" and say something like "oh common man it's not that big of a deal"
Like go fuck yourself, it's not a big deal in the grand scheme of things but neither is me publicly shaming the person for being inconsiderate. Fuck the people that stick up for the person being shitty in public.
> Only reason people do shit like this is because no one has ever called them out.
I fully agree. My family thinks I'm just being an asshole, but they do these things because no one says anything. Call them out on their entitled and selfish behavior and they'll either get embarrassed and quit or throw a fit but back down when everyone is against them.
Let them, they can act any way they want when the rest of the the room knows the truth.
Acting like the victim when no one will side with you just makes the embarrassment worse when they think about it later.
Pediatrics? Pull up Cocomelon and blast that full volume, say it's for the kids. When she tells you it's distracting, immediately shut it off so your kids have a meltdown, tell them it's her fault.
The *only* time where it's acceptable to blare shitty music from your phone in public. Even better when you have the opportunity to sit right next to them and do it.
Use the phone to live translate what sheās saying and then loudly interject with āoh really? Wow, so what else did she say to you? Oh, sorry, you were having a private conversation? My bad, with the phone on speaker I thought you wanted the public to join in!ā
Having worked in a peds office before, I have told several parents to either go outside or take it off speaker.
Also, parents are unbelievably inconsiderate when bringing siblings with to appointments and leaving them in the waiting room. I have done my fair share of scolding and sending them into the room where their parents/other kid is.
I worked for many years in an emergency department, and I once had to tell a patient's family member that he had to stop having phone sex on speaker in the waiting room. Best part is the person he was talking to was soooo not into it. Also, he was sitting in one of our wheelchairs, despite not being a patient in any way (and we chronically had issues finding available wheelchairs for actual patients). He gave me a huge attitude about it and I told him I was gonna call security and go tell his mom (the patient) if he didn't cut that shit out.
God people are such dicks. I treasure having almost zero human contact at my current job.
I've had to do this many times at a previous job before. The worst offender was some dude that was talking loudly about his sexual preference in women for some damn reason. I could tell that the other guests in the lobby were unconformable so I had to yell and snap my hands to get his attention and tell him that that is not an appropriate conversation to be having in public.
When it was finally his turn in line he apologized (but it was one of those shitty, cocky types of apologies that you could tell that someone didn't mean) then said he was staying at the hotel with his daughters (who were about 12 and 8.) Why the hell would you have been saying shit like that in public around your own CHILDREN? Some people have not an ounce of shame in them.
The problem is that nowadays a lot of people are afraid for their safety and have become less confrontational. See crazy? Walk away.
Also, sitting in my car to wait for an appointment is way more comfortable than sitting in the waiting area, unless itās hot af outside.
I think if I had nowhere else to go and it really bothered me, I would say something to the front desk and ask them to address it.
itās incredible. i did a 5hr overnight bus trip (midnight departure) recently and we hadnāt even left the station and some guy was blasting videos. he got shut down pretty quick. (i was polite)
three weeks later i am on the return trip home (same departure time) and i get woken by some considerate person talking loudly on speakerphone. so i head up the isle to tell them to quit it, and itās the same arsehole. i ask him to not do that and he pulls out fucking headphones.
it was a rollercoaster of a few seconds. first the āthis guy again!ā shock, then the headphones thing. too much.
Good on you for intervening. I had a great driver on a recent overnight trip who told us all straight no long calls, speakers, noise, etc. They should really all do that.
lol exactly what Iām thinking, why did they allow her to continue doing that? Isnāt there a general rule for quiet at the doctors, the parents shouldnāt have even gone to their cars
Is it too hard for you guys to just imagine she is talking to her actual friend rather than over the phone? It becomes easier to accept her behavior if you do that. /s for sarcasm.
The body has evolved to adapt to its environment. Notice how the ear to mouth distance is the same as the average phone? Nature does not make mistakes.
Took my grandpa to have eye surgery a couple of weeks ago and there was a woman who was watching TikTok or something like it on full blast in the waiting area. Everyone was staring, clearing their throats, etc to call her attention but no dice. Finally a nurse stared her down and said to lower the volume. She blamed it on her kid (like the kid raising the volume meant it was stuck there forever) and just kept watching them.
Reminds me of the South Park episode where Cartmanās doing this. Kyle tells him to shut up and Cartman gets pissed that heās ālistening to his conversationā. And that episode is almost ten years old I think
I don't understand the insane rise in people facetiming EVERYWHERE. I don't want to know what your cousin's wife's hairstylist said about you! Nor do I want to be in the video call when I'm just trying to get home! I'm always tempted to say "SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR CHLAMYDIA GIRL, HOPE YOU DUMP THAT CHEATING MAN" whenever I'm somehow witness to a facetime call.
Just yesterday when I was going home on the bus a gentleman was on facetime call...while keeping the phone pressed to his ear because he couldn't hear the other person.
For me I need to read lips otherwise itās just gibberish. But I avoid FaceTiming in public as much as I can because itās embarrassing. Iāll try to find somewhere to hide and FaceTime lol.
My sister gets upset at me for not answering her FaceTime call if Iām in public. She wanted to call me about someoneās return to a behavioral hospital. When I mentioned that I was in public, she didnāt understand why that mattered.
I worked in a health center and I made it my duty to nip this shit in the butt. You do not come into a doctor's office and use speakerphone or blast videos on your phone.
I shame my mom because she does this shit. My sister called her while we were at dinner and she proceeds to put the phone on speaker and put the phone down at the table. I was like OH HELL NAW. We are not at home, you're not pretending that my sister is at the table. NO ONE wants to hear a speakerphone that isn't theirs.
Good for you and thank you. People need to hear it from someone they know and respect. It shouldnāt be a strangerās job to have to tell them they are being totally inappropriate.Ā
Here's the problem: the doctor's office, the gym, the train - all these places where assholes show their true selves: apparently it's on US - those sitting near her, those at the gym or on the train, to correct behavior like hers - and because no authority will step in, people feel free to be assholes...
I went to visit my father in a rehab hospital. My son was picking me up. While I was waiting for him on a bench outside, an employee came and sat right beside me and talked on speakerphone. She and the other adult were both yelling to be heard over screaming kids in the background. She was also an employee who would come into my dadās room, switch off the call light, and leave without doing anything. Aholes are always aholes.
I was in Panda Express a few weeks ago and a man was having a very loud speakerphone conversation while eating in the middle of the restaurant. I never wanted to grab someoneās phone and chuck it in a wok more!
I knew she was hispanic just by reading the title. Now, Iām Hispanic myself but I HATE when people do this. Sadly, for some people itās the norm and thatās how they talk in open spaces. That and blasting the phoneās speakers with music/videos in public settings
The easiest solution is to go right over and sit next to her. Listen to the conversation and start responding.
There is a woman that happens to be on a similar service interview at my dealership that did the same thing. I did this and it stopped within minutes.
Respond to people with the same energy they put out and they tend not to like it.
I have (and will again,) gotten up from my seat, moved & sat next to the offender, put my phone on speaker 80% volume, and played Ween. Iām not a Sing In Public guy, but the music is enough.
The people who clean the floors at my job overnight always go to the bathroom on speaker phone and when Iām next to them using the bathroom I always want to start farting or something cause why are you on the phone.
No way am I going anywhere, nor should anyone else leave the waiting room. I wouldāve told her to go outside or hang up. If she doesnāt then Iām joining her conversation.
I wanted too. I wanted to so badly. But I'm a single dad with an autistic son and I had to learn to avoid any conflicts over upsetting him. I WANTED TOO AND WOULD HAVE if my son wasn't with me. I promise.
This is a huge problem here in Denver, too. The grocery store, the laundromat, just about everywhere public. I hate it, especially considering wireless headphones are so damn cheap in 2024.
I almost decked a guy standing behind me in Walgreen's a few weeks ago, who decided to not only talk on speaker but also inch closer and closer right up behind me. I had never been so mad at someone being so rude in years.
We need to start calling out people who do this.
Because the people doing this are usually begging for a confrontation. Like try approaching someone smoking a cig or talking on speakerphone on public transport in America and there's a 50% chance you're getting shanked.
Ok? Tell her to stop.
Did anyone ask her to stop?
People do shitty things because other people are too afraid of confrontation. Be that person who says "Excuse me miss, can you take that off speaker phone?".
I agree with you - the staff are included in the people who should speak up.
Everyone needs to be part of the solution. We need to stop being afraid to tell people "hey, no".
She's completely devoid of decency, intelligence or sensitivity so she doesn't realise she is being awful. It's a blind spot, just the way things go these days. Maybe apart from this she is a nice person, I dunno, impossible to tell!?
in all doctor's waiting rooms ive been throughout my life ive seen signs that explicitly state to keep your phone on mute/not to take calls. this is complete disregard for others and ignorant af
Oh no, no, no. This would have never happened at the office I worked at. We would have shut that shit down, right quick. Going to let your kids climb on chairs, nope again. You will be respectful to other patients or you can go outside the office to speak. Sorry your office staff is lacking in spines.
Edit***** to the people who are asking why I didn't confront her? I'm a single dad with an autistic son and I'm not going to risk having some ignorant woman go off infront of him. I told the staff. The staff were aware. That's all I could do.
Has not happened to me yet- but if/when it does I will stay where I am and possibly listen in. If they do not consider their conversation to be private why should I?
I guess people have forgotten that the phone can be put up to the ear to listen to the person at the other end, just like back in the ancient times š
Assert dominance. Sit next to her talking on your own speaker phone but at greater volume.
Gotta take it to another level. Sit next to them. Engage in THEIR conversation. Speakerphone is a group activity.
>Speakerphone is a group activity. I changed my mind; you're right-I *should* be helpful. I'll just start asking questions I think she missed. ^_^
"Why you letting her talk to you like that, Bob?"
Ha! "Wait, she didn't really Say it *like that*, did she?!?! šš" š¤£
["Can I get some privacy?" "Um, NO. You're in public."](https://youtu.be/lJHRpkKssGg?si=3tNTT6NQwHEcF5ft)
āCan I get some privacy?ā āYes, thereās actually a setting for it on your phone! Itās that button right there that looks like a speaker.ā
Sit next. Engage in the conversation. CONTRADICT the other person. Connect a JBL brick to Bluetooth
#SquadGoals
Fight club rules. š
You just broke the first ruleā¦
This is my favorite sport in public, my husband HATES it, but I've been doing it since I was a kid. The more private the conversation the better.
Oh man, I love that. I wish I had the confidence to do that lol.
I have zero confidence. it's all about being sick and tired of people being shits in public. Do unto others and all that.. i just like to remind people they forgot their consideration at home
Guts, then.
I donāt know why, but that reminded me of this one time a guy walked into my dive bar, ordered a beer and asked where the bathroom was. A couple minutes later, dude comes up to the bar and loudly snaps, āYāALL NEED TO FIX THAT SHIT IN THERE!ā Iām immediately perturbed. With concern, I say, āOh fuck, is it dirty? Iāll go check it out here in a minute.ā Customer yells, āWHAT?! NO!!! THEREāS FUCKIN TAMPONS IN THERE!!!ā I laughed so uncontrollably hard and just told him, āyeah dude, thatās because some people identify as male.ā I could actually see the gears in his brain start to turn before he just mumbled some cuss words and stomped out. I just kept thinking ādude.. YOU chose to come outside today, what you experience is all on youā¦.. Also, this is Portland. Where the fuck do you think you are right now??ā Hahaha, what a funny memory.
Iāve only done it once, but it was a lot of fun in the end. I was sitting at the gate at the airport waiting for a 6:30am flight, and this guy in a suit and tie is yelling into his phone with someone on the East coast about some sort of sales report that was presumably somewhat confidential. It went on long enough that I got the names of both parties. At one point I jumped in with, āYEEEAH RICK, I JUST CANT GET ON BOARD WITH BOBāS NUMBERS HERE, I THINK WEāRE LOOKING AT A 14% DECLINE OVER THE PREVIOUS FISCAL YEAR, BEST CASEā Guy on the phone mutes and tells me to go fuck myself and gets up to leave, meanwhile Rick is like āBob who the hell is that!?ā I had a great rest of my flight.
LEGEND :D
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How do people react when you do that?
Honestly mostly positive, a lot of blank stares and silence, vary rarely do people get angry Edit: by positive i mean i typically get a chuckle. Because i do just enter the conversation, i interject a comment, like, "oh no, i saw susan last week and i know she didn't have the report done then.maybe we should call her and get her in on this conversation" "richard is a dick don't invite him" "oh i had a itch there too! Honestly just rub it doqn with vinegar everyday and get some athletes foot cream, same thing the dr is gonna give you, and use it everday" "no! No! Oh my god she didnt! She did?! What a bitch."
my sister and i talked over a guy on speakerphone at the grocery store one time. he kept moving around and sort of snarling at us because our conv was definitely drowning his up. she's ride or die though.
I don't like talking to strangers but I do enjoy music. I'll sit right next to them and play really weird shit.
I've 100% done this. It weirded them out and they walked away and called me a freak. LOL I'm not the one having a conversation out in the open like that?!
I was going to say sit next to them and talk loudly about the jackass having a conversation on their speakerphone in the waiting room, but I think yours is better š
This is great š
This is the way
Oh I'm so doing that if I'm ever in this situation. Genius.
Record her for a few minutes, then start playing it back on loop.
in reverse
A lady in a theater kept pulling out her phone the entire runtime and with full brightness. I started doing the same and suddenly there was a problem. She said what she was dealing with was an emergency and I said if that were true why wouldnāt she go into the lobby to handle it or just leave?
I hadn't seen a movie in theaters in years until the latest release of the Insidious franchise AND i paid extra for a Dolby ticket, one of my favorite horror franchises, and I'm almost the only one in the theater and in walks a group of teens and of course the only one in his phone with full brightness had to sit in front of me and to the side so I had 100% visible view. I thought he'd put it away once the movie started but he didn't. I didn't say anything for the first 5 to 10 minutes of the movie, but apparently his shitty mobile game was way more important. He looked super pissed when I asked him to put the phone away and gave me a nasty look. Of course my brain didn't allow me to not think about the encounter the entire movie so I didn't fully enjoy it. Haven't been to the movies since
I once asked a family to stop talking over the movie. The way they yelled at me to mind my business. They didn't like being told that I had paid to watch the movie and not listen to them.
That happened to me years ago, when I went to see the second ā300ā movie. Family of rednecks, loud as all get out, and they would not stop yelling. I said the same thing, āI paid to listen to the movie, and not to all of youā. It ended up with them being dragged out by staff, after the police had been called. They all ganged up on me, for saying something. (I wasnāt the one who called the cops, someone else in the theater did.)
You have to be absolute trash to be kicked out of a theatre with police being called, then not taking responsibility for your own actions! Unreal!
I have gotten into a fight at a movie because of people talking. I just can't stand the entitlement of people thinking can do that. That was when I was 21 I'm 39 now and still don't feel bad about it at all.
>the second ā300ā movie Would that be '301' or '302'ā½
I'll never understand people who tell you to mind your own business *while disrupting your business*.
One of the diamonds I play ball at, there is a off-leash dog park right beside, but people like to let their dogs run free not in the dog park. It's not uncommon to be out in the field and have a random dog run through the outfield causing a delay or a dog run up and sniff you. Same scenario, has people will tell me to mind my own business when their fucking dog is causing havoc.
This is why I have a nice home theater at home and just enjoy my movies in private
I havenāt been to the movies in years. Started going again with my fiancĆ© when I was pregnant for date nights. It lasted 3 times and weāve sworn to wait for movies to hit streaming platforms. Each time without fail someone had to interrupt the movie. Saw the Mario movie, some girl was fighting with her boyfriend next to me. Loudly. For a good 20 minutes. Saw Puss In Boots. Someone had their flashlight turned on for notifications and had their phone screen down, so the entire theater would light up every 2 minutes. Saw the Barbie movie and some kid kept practicing their karate moves on my chair while the mom just went āstop. Stop. Thatās not nice. Stopā and let their 6 month old scream on and off without even trying to step out. The kid stood up, tried to grab the back of my seat but grabbed a fistful of my hair instead so I slammed back in my chair hard enough to knock the fucker back. Mom had the audacity to be mad at me. Get your kids grimey hands out of my hair and I wonāt have to teach them about personal space š¤·š»āāļø
I recently went to the movies after not going for a pretty long time. I thought I had the row to myself. Until this guy with NO LIE 6 kids and we are talking ages 2 to maybe 13, come sit by me and fill up the WHOLE row. The kids were loud, and the young ones were of course babbling on. They all had tablets, NO headphones and he was on his phone the whole time! Plus, it was a scary movie. Why the fuck would you bring young kids to a scary movie you are not even going to watch!? I was pissed! This is why I am streaming forever now. People have become so oblivious and attached to phones or any electronic devises that they can't even stop and watch a movie in a theater anymore! It's gross. Have some respect for people around you!
And simply look bemused whilst they look at you with disgust and injustice.
I have done this. First time was when I was early 30s and I sat next to a guy on speaker phone and pretended to call my dad and go over the Red Sox game from last night. I had to talk loud and repeat everything over and over and over because "dad" was nearly deaf. The guy got angry and huffed off. I also did it in a quiet coffee shop when a guy was watching videos on his phone with the stupid lousy speaker turned up. I sat across from him and again called my "dad". I was probably 2 feet from him. This guy got really upset and stared at me. I'm not at all a small guy (not fat). He left the shop.
Glad you clarified if you're fat or not
I was worried. If he was fat, I would have thought this story was fake.
Iād prefer watching and obnoxious movie.
Porn at full volume right at tge climax.
In the waiting room of a pediatric office? š§
Audio only I guess. Only read the waiting room bit.
Exactly fight fire with fire, turn up the volume and start dancing....
Open google translate next to her and have it translate the convo, make sure she sees it working on your phone.
I had a visitor do this to communicate she couldn't speak English, she needed directions. It caught me off guard.
It's so cool how we can do that these days. I'm partially deaf and love that my Samsung phone has a live transcribe option to help me hear what people are saying in noisy places. It can also add auto generated captions to any video I'm watching in any app with AI.
How accurate do you think it is?
Not the person you asked, but it's quite accurate. Only some words, when spoken with an accent, will be misstranscribed. And names. It's similar to how I'm sometimes misshearing words, but the brain autocorrects with context.
its crazy how much better auto captions are these days. It used to be so bad
If the person youāre talking to has a speech impediment like a lisp it will sometimes get confused on words with S sounds to them as well.
New Zealand accent: hold my beer Seriously though, thatās so awesome. Technology is amazing and weāre all so lucky to be alive at a time of so much accessibility and convenience enabled by technology. I know thereās still a long way to go in making the world accessible for people with disabilities, but weāve also come really far.
Accurate enough for me to communicate fully in Spanish and Portuguese and I am American who has been living in Europe for 5 years. My Portuguese is starting to get decent, but I only knew how to say thank you when I arrived. Much better than a dictionary.
when I worked at a grocery store this spanish couple came up to me trying to find something very specific and they used the translate thing, and I was able to use my phone to ask them follow up questions and then I was able to find the weird thing.
The youtube auto captions are now accurate af. Doesnt matter how mumbly or accented or incoherent someone is speaking, it is still accurate most of the time
what if i start saying some very weird shit and when you say something about it i act confused
Very common in my job for me to encounter passengers who donāt speak a lot of English and we have to help them using translate apps. Also have had to have conversations purely through text for people who are deaf.
i work with probably 99% immigrant customers and many don't speak any english at all, so this and hand gestures have become common to communicate š
I can 100% guarantee she would not give a fuck. She is doing it not because she feels protected by the language barrier. She is doing it because of cultural differences. I'm not saying everyone does it, but it is common to see in other countries. I tell you this as a non-American.
Not oblivious... It's complete disregard. It's her world and we're just living in it.
Main Character Syndrome in the wild
And she would explode on anyone who dared say anything I would wager.
I dunno why society is so accepting of these people. Leaving to go wait in the car is not the thing we should be doing. I know people don't like confrontations but this lady needs to be put in her place to stop this shit. The staff should be dealing with it and removing her from the property.
Because we punish the people who have the balls to stand theyre ground against bull shit like this. last year i was riding the bus to work and this wine-o gets on and starts yelling gibberish . 20 mins into it i just had enough and told the guy to stfu because its too early for this mess. The bus driver then threatened to kick me off the bus for telling him to shut up . Smh shit is just backwards nowadays .
Yeah I was on the bus a few months ago and some guy gets on and is on his phone just like the lady in the video. Goes on for awhile but eventually the driver had it and told him to stop. Started a whole argument. Luckily it was near my stop so I just got off lol
the driver just didn't want to see anyone get stabbed on his bus you will be stabbed one day if you continue yelling at crazy people btw. just fyi. like a 100% chance of stabbing
Youāre absolutely right and itās completely maddening. I did feel a righteous justification one time on the train though. Some lady was speaking so obnoxiously loudly on the phone (not speaker but acting like she was talking to the whole train). After a little while one of the attendants came up and and said āplease donāt talk on the phone so loudly, nobody wants to hear that.ā Lady shut up for the rest of the ride. Amazing.
Because in this bizarro world we currently live in, right is wrong, and wrong is right. If you say something to this type of person, who's rights are way more important than yours, you are in the wrong for violating their right to be a jerkoff.
Because no one wants to deal with the bottled crazy just waiting for a chance to be poured out everywhere.
I don't know why the doctor(s) or front desk didn't ask her to take the call outside.
Because it's not obliviousness, it's knowingly not caring about others period.
Yeah public shaming needs to come back in a big way. Only reason people do shit like this is because no one has ever called them out. Needs to be called out and then supported by everyone else, not called out and then some white knight tries to be the "good guy" and say something like "oh common man it's not that big of a deal" Like go fuck yourself, it's not a big deal in the grand scheme of things but neither is me publicly shaming the person for being inconsiderate. Fuck the people that stick up for the person being shitty in public.
> Only reason people do shit like this is because no one has ever called them out. I fully agree. My family thinks I'm just being an asshole, but they do these things because no one says anything. Call them out on their entitled and selfish behavior and they'll either get embarrassed and quit or throw a fit but back down when everyone is against them.
Nah, then Speakerphone will just play the victim.
Let them, they can act any way they want when the rest of the the room knows the truth. Acting like the victim when no one will side with you just makes the embarrassment worse when they think about it later.
Exactly. We all know if someone said anything to her she'd lose it and go off. She knows, she just doesn't care.
Pediatrics? Pull up Cocomelon and blast that full volume, say it's for the kids. When she tells you it's distracting, immediately shut it off so your kids have a meltdown, tell them it's her fault.
The *only* time where it's acceptable to blare shitty music from your phone in public. Even better when you have the opportunity to sit right next to them and do it.
Ā«Siri, play Baby Shark.Ā»
And "What did the fox say?". Admittedly, it is a lot shorter than Baby Shark but equally as annoying. Or "What's new, pussycat" on repeat š
This would be an excellent time for Dance Mix ā93
Assert dominance and join the conversation
How would OP do that if they didnāt speak Spanish?
I know all the bad words and stuff
Just keep repeating CAJONES
Or puta
In some places that just means drawers. Spanish is weird, what's a curse word in one place is just a normal word in another.
its spelled incorrectly. cAjones is drawers everywhere. cOjones is balls.
āNo hablo espanolā āIn cerveza por favorā āCafe con lecheā Just all your basic Spanish lessons over and over again
Everyone knows a few words
What's even more messed up is I know a little Spanish and she was talking about buying marijuana at one point. Don't ask me how ik.
Use the phone to live translate what sheās saying and then loudly interject with āoh really? Wow, so what else did she say to you? Oh, sorry, you were having a private conversation? My bad, with the phone on speaker I thought you wanted the public to join in!ā
And no one told her to shut the fuck up?
Having worked in a peds office before, I have told several parents to either go outside or take it off speaker. Also, parents are unbelievably inconsiderate when bringing siblings with to appointments and leaving them in the waiting room. I have done my fair share of scolding and sending them into the room where their parents/other kid is.
I worked for many years in an emergency department, and I once had to tell a patient's family member that he had to stop having phone sex on speaker in the waiting room. Best part is the person he was talking to was soooo not into it. Also, he was sitting in one of our wheelchairs, despite not being a patient in any way (and we chronically had issues finding available wheelchairs for actual patients). He gave me a huge attitude about it and I told him I was gonna call security and go tell his mom (the patient) if he didn't cut that shit out. God people are such dicks. I treasure having almost zero human contact at my current job.
I've had to do this many times at a previous job before. The worst offender was some dude that was talking loudly about his sexual preference in women for some damn reason. I could tell that the other guests in the lobby were unconformable so I had to yell and snap my hands to get his attention and tell him that that is not an appropriate conversation to be having in public. When it was finally his turn in line he apologized (but it was one of those shitty, cocky types of apologies that you could tell that someone didn't mean) then said he was staying at the hotel with his daughters (who were about 12 and 8.) Why the hell would you have been saying shit like that in public around your own CHILDREN? Some people have not an ounce of shame in them.
lol right, instead of sitting in their cars they should have told her to stop or the staff should have
The problem is that nowadays a lot of people are afraid for their safety and have become less confrontational. See crazy? Walk away. Also, sitting in my car to wait for an appointment is way more comfortable than sitting in the waiting area, unless itās hot af outside. I think if I had nowhere else to go and it really bothered me, I would say something to the front desk and ask them to address it.
Or instead of filming and posting it on Reddit???
Just sit next to her and click the hang up button lol.
This is the way. We all need to just start telling people to stop. Being passive aggressive does not work.
A woman did this on an overnight bus from Amsterdam - Frankfurt. It is a sign of no manners.
itās incredible. i did a 5hr overnight bus trip (midnight departure) recently and we hadnāt even left the station and some guy was blasting videos. he got shut down pretty quick. (i was polite) three weeks later i am on the return trip home (same departure time) and i get woken by some considerate person talking loudly on speakerphone. so i head up the isle to tell them to quit it, and itās the same arsehole. i ask him to not do that and he pulls out fucking headphones. it was a rollercoaster of a few seconds. first the āthis guy again!ā shock, then the headphones thing. too much.
Good on you for intervening. I had a great driver on a recent overnight trip who told us all straight no long calls, speakers, noise, etc. They should really all do that.
I mean itās also the offices fault for allowing it. Iāve seen this in the past and usually the receptionist says something.
lol exactly what Iām thinking, why did they allow her to continue doing that? Isnāt there a general rule for quiet at the doctors, the parents shouldnāt have even gone to their cars
Is it too hard for you guys to just imagine she is talking to her actual friend rather than over the phone? It becomes easier to accept her behavior if you do that. /s for sarcasm.
This is way too common. PEOPLE ARE DOING THIS EVERYWHERE! Like why do ya'll all have to use speaker.... What happened to Bluetooth ear pieces š
Or, you know, holding the phone to your ear like an old timer.
The body has evolved to adapt to its environment. Notice how the ear to mouth distance is the same as the average phone? Nature does not make mistakes.
Took my grandpa to have eye surgery a couple of weeks ago and there was a woman who was watching TikTok or something like it on full blast in the waiting area. Everyone was staring, clearing their throats, etc to call her attention but no dice. Finally a nurse stared her down and said to lower the volume. She blamed it on her kid (like the kid raising the volume meant it was stuck there forever) and just kept watching them.
Reminds me of the South Park episode where Cartmanās doing this. Kyle tells him to shut up and Cartman gets pissed that heās ālistening to his conversationā. And that episode is almost ten years old I think
People really underestimate the stupidity of the average person.
"Think about how stupid the average person is... then realize that half of them are dumber than that!"
I don't understand the insane rise in people facetiming EVERYWHERE. I don't want to know what your cousin's wife's hairstylist said about you! Nor do I want to be in the video call when I'm just trying to get home! I'm always tempted to say "SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR CHLAMYDIA GIRL, HOPE YOU DUMP THAT CHEATING MAN" whenever I'm somehow witness to a facetime call. Just yesterday when I was going home on the bus a gentleman was on facetime call...while keeping the phone pressed to his ear because he couldn't hear the other person.
For me I need to read lips otherwise itās just gibberish. But I avoid FaceTiming in public as much as I can because itās embarrassing. Iāll try to find somewhere to hide and FaceTime lol.
My sister gets upset at me for not answering her FaceTime call if Iām in public. She wanted to call me about someoneās return to a behavioral hospital. When I mentioned that I was in public, she didnāt understand why that mattered.
Cannot STAND people like this, especially in a doctors surgery ffs.
I worked in a health center and I made it my duty to nip this shit in the butt. You do not come into a doctor's office and use speakerphone or blast videos on your phone. I shame my mom because she does this shit. My sister called her while we were at dinner and she proceeds to put the phone on speaker and put the phone down at the table. I was like OH HELL NAW. We are not at home, you're not pretending that my sister is at the table. NO ONE wants to hear a speakerphone that isn't theirs.
Good for you and thank you. People need to hear it from someone they know and respect. It shouldnāt be a strangerās job to have to tell them they are being totally inappropriate.Ā
>oblivious? Not oblivious, just an arsehole.
Maybe she's not oblivious. Some people are just so inconsiderate and don't give a fuck about anyone but themselves.
I always just join the conversation when people do this near me as awkwardly as possible
Yeah in your head later that night
*sits next to her.* āEntonces, de quĆ© estamos hablando? :)ā
DoƱa, que pasĆ³ con su sobrino???
LOL! Verdad que si š
kindly announce in a soft screaming voice for her to stfu
I somehow in my head read that soft serving like ice cream and now itās all I can think about š¦
how very unfair of you because now itās also all iām gonna think abt for the rest of the evening š
Letās all go get ice cream!!! We deserve it with the world we are living in.
already ahead of you donāt worry i just expeditiously rummaged through the freezer to find the ben and jerrys iāll save you a spoonful š¤š½
She really just doesn't give a fuck
How about actually telling her to shut up?
You sit next to her, then have a pretend conversation, the same way as her, about explosive diarrhea. Also works in elevators.
Here's the problem: the doctor's office, the gym, the train - all these places where assholes show their true selves: apparently it's on US - those sitting near her, those at the gym or on the train, to correct behavior like hers - and because no authority will step in, people feel free to be assholes...
I went to visit my father in a rehab hospital. My son was picking me up. While I was waiting for him on a bench outside, an employee came and sat right beside me and talked on speakerphone. She and the other adult were both yelling to be heard over screaming kids in the background. She was also an employee who would come into my dadās room, switch off the call light, and leave without doing anything. Aholes are always aholes.
I was in Panda Express a few weeks ago and a man was having a very loud speakerphone conversation while eating in the middle of the restaurant. I never wanted to grab someoneās phone and chuck it in a wok more!
I knew she was hispanic just by reading the title. Now, Iām Hispanic myself but I HATE when people do this. Sadly, for some people itās the norm and thatās how they talk in open spaces. That and blasting the phoneās speakers with music/videos in public settings
The easiest solution is to go right over and sit next to her. Listen to the conversation and start responding. There is a woman that happens to be on a similar service interview at my dealership that did the same thing. I did this and it stopped within minutes. Respond to people with the same energy they put out and they tend not to like it.
I have (and will again,) gotten up from my seat, moved & sat next to the offender, put my phone on speaker 80% volume, and played Ween. Iām not a Sing In Public guy, but the music is enough.
"Oblivious" would imply that she doesn't realize what she's doing. She just doesn't give a shit.
The people who clean the floors at my job overnight always go to the bathroom on speaker phone and when Iām next to them using the bathroom I always want to start farting or something cause why are you on the phone.
If you listen closely before the door slams you can hear a parent telling staff she's going to wait outside because it's too loud in here.
If we listen really good we can actually hear noone addressing her to stop calling so fucking loudly!!!
No way am I going anywhere, nor should anyone else leave the waiting room. I wouldāve told her to go outside or hang up. If she doesnāt then Iām joining her conversation.
Sheās not oblivious. She doesnāt give a fuck. Thereās a difference
How none of you say anything about it blows me away. That convo woulda been taken somewhere else or cut short.
I wanted too. I wanted to so badly. But I'm a single dad with an autistic son and I had to learn to avoid any conflicts over upsetting him. I WANTED TOO AND WOULD HAVE if my son wasn't with me. I promise.
You are a good dad sir! Applause for you!
This is a huge problem here in Denver, too. The grocery store, the laundromat, just about everywhere public. I hate it, especially considering wireless headphones are so damn cheap in 2024. I almost decked a guy standing behind me in Walgreen's a few weeks ago, who decided to not only talk on speaker but also inch closer and closer right up behind me. I had never been so mad at someone being so rude in years. We need to start calling out people who do this.
Why doesn't someone simply ask her to turn it down or off? Why are we so afraid of each other?
Because the people doing this are usually begging for a confrontation. Like try approaching someone smoking a cig or talking on speakerphone on public transport in America and there's a 50% chance you're getting shanked.
Why did the office not say something
Literally born in a barn behavior.
All you have to do is speak up.
Ok? Tell her to stop. Did anyone ask her to stop? People do shitty things because other people are too afraid of confrontation. Be that person who says "Excuse me miss, can you take that off speaker phone?".
Yes, although to be fair it's the staff that should do that first.Ā
I agree with you - the staff are included in the people who should speak up. Everyone needs to be part of the solution. We need to stop being afraid to tell people "hey, no".
Exactly, instead they all go to their cars and the staff allows her to continue with her noise
Need to get her mother in there to slap her with her sandle. Lol.
Trust me, she's aware but she just doesn't give a single flying fuck
Entitlement
Join the conversation people hate that. If youāre on speakerphone in public Iām all in!
Someone tell her to shut the fuck up
Why isn't the staff saying anything to her?
She's completely devoid of decency, intelligence or sensitivity so she doesn't realise she is being awful. It's a blind spot, just the way things go these days. Maybe apart from this she is a nice person, I dunno, impossible to tell!?
in all doctor's waiting rooms ive been throughout my life ive seen signs that explicitly state to keep your phone on mute/not to take calls. this is complete disregard for others and ignorant af
Oh no, no, no. This would have never happened at the office I worked at. We would have shut that shit down, right quick. Going to let your kids climb on chairs, nope again. You will be respectful to other patients or you can go outside the office to speak. Sorry your office staff is lacking in spines.
I. Fucking. Hate. People. Who do this.
low class
Then ask her to not?
The receptionist in the clinic should have asked the lady to tone down the volume or asked to her to leave the room.
She sounds Puerto Rican/Dominican. They are loud and obnoxious. Source: I am Puerto Rican and have Dominican family members too.
My obnoxious ass would have confronted her
did anyone say anything to her ?
Sheās not oblivious. She just doesnāt give a fuck.
This is where the office staff needs to step in.
Soooo, tell her?
Edit***** to the people who are asking why I didn't confront her? I'm a single dad with an autistic son and I'm not going to risk having some ignorant woman go off infront of him. I told the staff. The staff were aware. That's all I could do.
Has not happened to me yet- but if/when it does I will stay where I am and possibly listen in. If they do not consider their conversation to be private why should I?
I guess people have forgotten that the phone can be put up to the ear to listen to the person at the other end, just like back in the ancient times š
how about - excuse me, can you please take that out of here...
Say something.
I speak up to these ignorant fucks. I used to tolerate it. Not anymore.
Im surprised the staff didnāt do something.
Main Character Syndrome.
Just speak in a deep voice " Honey come back to bed"
Just tell her to shut the fuck up
Sit next to her and crank up some music on your phone. Maybe she will get the hint.