When I was a teenager, we used to laugh an old folk who roared down the phone. Now I'm heading towards being an old person, and I'm completely bemused by the number of folk holding their phones at arms length and shouting their conversations in the street. Why have your phone on speaker in public places? I don't get it. Hold the damned thing to your ear and shoosht.
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Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 06:13:46 JST Mrs Cloudy -
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Wen (wen@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 15:45:02 JST Wen @CloudyMrs @russellt It happens on trains as well. It takes a remarkable time for them to realise that the people at the same table are ‘discussing’ the banality (or other comments) of the conversation before they glare and get out of the carriage. And these are QUIET carriages.
My friends and I do not regret our actions…
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Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 15:56:54 JST Mrs Cloudy @Wen @russellt and in restaurants. Shouting to be heard over music. Banal chat about nothing, at top volume. Totally oblivious to the rest of the world. When did this become normal?
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Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 15:58:02 JST Mrs Cloudy @balshaw yip. Just stick a thing in your lug and spare the rest of us.
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Daniel (balshaw@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 15:58:03 JST Daniel @CloudyMrs one of my (many) annoyances while using public transport, this and people that generally have music/tiktoks playing through the speaker 🤬
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Wen (wen@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 15:58:21 JST Wen @CloudyMrs @russellt The difference being I am polite enough in restaurants (to other diners) not to make loud fun of them. In the silent carriages all bets are off towards the twats.
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Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 16:01:04 JST Mrs Cloudy @Wen @russellt Hmm. Although, I did have an entertaining journey once with a lassy going on about a lovely first date, to her pal. The whole carriage was silent because we were all lugging in. Hopefully she's married the chap by now because he sounded lovely. 🤣
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Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 16:02:55 JST Mrs Cloudy @Wen @russellt possibly. But I still think someone shouting at their phone at the table next to me in a restaurant deserves at least a side eye.
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Wen (wen@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 16:02:56 JST Wen @CloudyMrs @russellt Does that make me hopefully old fashioned? 🤨🤔😝
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Patrick Hadfield (patrickhadfield@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 16:10:49 JST Patrick Hadfield @CloudyMrs oh god YES!
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Russell 🏴 (russellt@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 22:30:39 JST Russell 🏴 @CloudyMrs
Haha!
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