Aibu or is this a thing - no headphones

Surely it depends. If it was a&e waiting perhaps they rushed there without thinking of headphones etc. if I’d have done that with one of my young kids and ended up sat there for ages I may well have let them have my phone if they were unwell to stop them kicking off or getting really upset, or as a distraction if they were in pain.

It seems to becoming more common now, in many public places, including hospital wards - where people are ill, trapped in bed, with only a curtain between them. Totally ignorant and unacceptable behaviour.

This often comes up on MN.

Is there even a cut off age, if so who sets it?

It seems fine to have a tablet/phone/other device blaring out peppa pig, or whatever choice, to keep youngsters entertained whenever the fancy takes in a restaurant or on a train so maybe they've grown up doing so and see nothing wrong in it.

Personally have never had my phone on loudspeaker while out and don't particularly like listening to others choice of noise coming from theirs either, but consideration is inbred much more nowadays.

Yep. It's a thing now. On an Easyjet flight recently (Usually have no problems with EJ) there must have been about 5 people within a few rows of mine watching or playing something noisy on a device with no headphones. I had my own headphones so wasn't too bothered but I wondered if there is a volume at which the cabin crew step in. Tempted to take the laptop next time, really crank it up and see what happens. Seems wild that you essentially have to pack ear defenders if you don't want to hear that crap.

In fact, I'm going to check EJ t&c now......

YANBU it's v annoying. I guess hospital/kid is slightly different to my experience though.
I had an absolute bellend playing his tiktok videos on full blast on his phone in a packed train carriage. I asked him politely. Ignored me. Asked him again. He told me to shut up.
So I began reciting the book I was reading out loud. VERY loud. Only did about a paragraph before he sucked his teeth and turned it down.

No regrets.

Knob.