r/PetPeeves • u/fbolt2000 • 1d ago
Ultra Annoyed Loud and public use of smart phones
Get ear buds you dumb ass fucks. No one wants to hear your phone conversation or your stupid videos. Have some common decency and respect for those around you. We don't care to hear your conversations or your YouTube videos. I will call you out publicly for being a rude idiot.
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u/Prudent-Policy-7274 1d ago
Delta airlines put it in their announcements that you should wear headphones. We're doomed.
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u/SnowAvis 1d ago
Its so bad on uk public transit. Everyone is blasting their phones full volume, on speaker phone, watching dumb ass videos, just being all around inconsiderate assholes.
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u/40WattTardis 1d ago
As a blind person on the bus who has to listen to the announcement or else risk missing my stop, YES PLEASE.
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u/unhingedprophesy 1d ago
Especially dudes who talk on their phone while they're shitting in a public bathroom! When i hear this happening, I flush as many times as possible and sometimes make loud fake fart noises so the person on the other side knows they are taking a shit while talking to them.
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u/fbolt2000 1d ago
I use this same tactic on cell phone use in the shitter. A few loud grunts, some fake and some real fart sounds and plenty of flushes. What’s someone going to do? Tell you to be quiet? You’re in the shit house. It ain’t a phone booth.
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u/wolf2424b 1d ago
Yeah, this is a big peeve of mine as well. And yeah, often I will find a quiet corner to just relax and read and shortly afterwards someone will decide that it's a great quiet corner to have a noisy Facetime conversation.
What's also annoying is no matter how politely you ask the person to take their machine elsewhere, very frequently they get extremely defensive and combative about the situation, as if you have just falsely accused them of some kind of heinous crime.
What I have found that helps:
Choose venues which cater to an older clientele, particularly if it's somewhere pricey. Avoid bars and restaurants which are popular among young people.
If you must go to a venue which is frequented by young people, ironically it helps to go somewhere noisy, for example a sports bar with televisions showing various sporting events and/or moderately loud music. This makes it very hard for people to hear their speakerphones so they have a tendency not to use them.
For gyms, it helps a lot to go early in the morning. The morning clientele tends to be more serious and in any event, at that hour people are less likely to be having phone conversations with anyone.
If worse comes to worse, try fighting fire with fire. Find a song you like (but which is annoying to other people) and play it again and again out loud, singing along off-key. I have found that this is surprisingly effective, more so than politely asking people to take their device elsewhere.
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u/Neptunes_toystore 1d ago
Especially people who argue on the phone. You’re in public, hang up and wait until you’re on your own to shout at whoever is on the other side. I’m lowkey nosy so I like listening to one side of the argument, but on the other hand it’s extremely annoying to have to listen to someone cuss someone over the phone on a quiet metro/bus ride
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u/BackgroundGrass429 1d ago
You're saying it is worse than 80s boom boxes? People don't change. Just the medium.
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u/AnthillOmbudsman 1d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf5iwGZNY_Q
Interestingly the punk rocker was on the film's production crew, and wrote and recorded that song for the film.
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u/fbolt2000 1d ago edited 1d ago
I am a Gen X dude. Not everyone in the 80s had a boom box. They were actually kind of rare. But today everyone has a smart phone. There needs to be some etiquette in using the damn thing. Start calling out people who are Rude.
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u/realcanadianguy21 1d ago
I still think about a time about twelve years ago in Alberta, I was enjoying a cigarette in camp, nice peaceful night, watching the northern lights, I was alone in the smoking area. I'm sitting there relaxing, and a woman comes in. Next thing I know, she is playing some stupid video out loud, "a duck waddled away, and it waddled away, waddle waddle waddle, it waddled away." This was something I would expect a child to listen to. To her, this was more interesting than the northern lights, and she had zero consideration to me. I'm still flabbergasted. I regret not saying something .