To moan about kids watching clips on their phone without headphones

No it's not too much. The DC was rude, and the parent was incompetent.

It's everywhere, but it's half-term and so much much worse, as lots of DC with parents travelling on trains when they're not really regular public transport users, and have minimal consideration for sharing public transport space with other travellers.

Today on a longish journey, that turns into a commuter journey nearer the city, a boy sitting next to me (his mother across the asle) was sitting sideways with his legs in the aisle, so that everyone had to step over them. One quite visibly elderly lady almost tripped. And the boy didn't move, but worse, his mother didn't tell him to move.

Some children are being brought up to be immensely selfish.

They don't care.

(I speak from experience. Barely go out to restaurants, cafes and pubs these days as despite what MN says, kids on devices is now the norm and they never use headphones. Sadly train and bus travel is essential so I can't avoid it but it's the same there.)

It's just so weird - watching videos on full volume is something that would make most people embarrassed! It's insane that people have zero self awareness of respect for the people around them. Even if the child didn't have headphones, they could've been watching something on low volume or reading a book or there or something. Or just talking to their mum!

I had a friend who years ago, when this first started to be a thing, start reading her newspaper out loud 😄The guy with his sound on asked her what she was doing and she said ‘isn’t it annoying when you’re forced to listen to something?’

It's not just kids, it's people of all ages.

Dh and I often say to people 'Can you use headphones please?' And it's notable how often it turns out they do have a set but they were seeing if they could get away without it. One women did snap at dh 'I was only watching one thing!' But obviously we didn't know that she wasn't planning on sitting there the whole journey with it on.

But next time someone ignores me or him on that I think I might just start singing some opera and seeing how they like that.

I don't get it all I'd be embarrassed for everyone to hear what I'm watching. Good for you OP.

I have been tempted to play something out loud over someone else playing something out loud just to highlight how antisocial it is.

What would happen if everyone did this and none of them could hear their own videos because of the surrounding noise? Maybe it will go full circle and headphones will become normal again.

Very recently I was on a train and a woman was playing a video out loud with lots of swearing.

A woman who was sat opposite told the woman off as there were young kids around.

The woman apologised and said she forgot her earphones.

If I forget my earphones, I don't play anything out loud. Why do people think they're entitled to?

It's definitely becoming increasingly common and it's bloody rude and inconsiderate. I actually worry what these people are like if they have such little regard and consideration of others.

Mainly seen it in teens/young adults, some of them I honestly would have been a bit scared of approaching.

But saw a 50-year-old woman last week doing this too. I was just about to get off otherwise I would have said something.

Maybe public transport companies also need to communicate this before it becomes fully established.

It's kids and adults, so bloody selfish, but they just don't care. Just been for an appointment at Specsavers and in the very small waiting area, one kid was playing games on his phone on full volume, his mum was having a conversation with someone on speaker phone as was a separate woman. I couldn't use my headphones or I wouldn't have been able to hear them when they called me. Sets my misophonia right off 😡

Annoying and getting more common. I remember back in 2006/2007 having to listen to shitty music being played off phones on the bus. It used to just be the dodgy kids doing it back them but seems to be everyone now.

I've started calling it out now to prevent it becoming normalised.

This ++++ @Courgettesandonions

I do this and ask everyone to do the same.

I just say please could you turn the sound off or use some headphones.
If queried why, I say 'the noise is very intrusive and disturbing to other passengers' and depending on the response sometimes 'It's a bit (or very again depending) antisocial to listen without head phones". If there were no headphones, I'd suggest watching something with subtitles or doing something that doesn't need sound like a game.

I've never had anyone refuse or be very aggressive. Sometimes people have moved out of quiet carriages on trains/

We all stand together in this and unless we ask people to stop like @Courgettesandonions says it will become normalised and it is fucking rude.

It's almost impossible to get on a train these days without someone doing this. And frankly, it's often NOT kids. I find it mind blowing.

The problem is that it is rapidly becoming normalised. The more people who do it the more other people think they will as well. See also aggressive driving.

It's a really weird thing to do IMO. Why make everyone else listen to what you're listening to?

I feel your pain OP. I was at the gym last week which has loud music playing anyway and a women joined me on the treadmills and started watching a programme on her phone with no earphones. Is nowhere safe from these imbeciles now?

It's so bloomin rude. My partner asked a young guy to turn his phone down on the train recently and (shock news) he apologised and turned it down!!

Same time as adults stopped giving a fuck too. I see more adults on the bus guilty of this. Full on facetime conversations with no ear pods and watching videos too. Obnoxious.

why just kids? i get on the bus and frequently hear adults listening to music without headphones or watching things. the bus driver told a man off the other day so no it isn’t just kids or is it only kids doing it that bother you?

I see adults doing this as much as children!!!

Only yesterday there was an older man sitting in a cafe watching TV on his phone at full volume. Stormed off when he was asked to turn it off.

I’ve also been on two flights recently where people have had the volume on iPads with cartoons playing.

In all cases, buy some bloody headphones!

Tell them you've got misophonia, and can't tolerate such noise

It's not just kids. I moved out of London six or seven years ago but visit family a few times a year. Last time I visited I was surprised to see people of all ages and walks of life were at it. There was a well to-do suited and booted guy in his 50s next to me at one point scrolling through TikTok at full volume. It seems to be normalised behaviour now. I find it incredibly irritating too.

Shame the kid can't read a book, his attention span is prob too shot from years of staring at screens