To feel like a idiot talking on handsfree?

[belleha]

I just can't shake feeling like a idiot doing it.
So I'm walking round town and my friend calls but my hands are full and I'm shopping so I pop my headphones in and start chatting.
People keep looking at me (mostly the older generation) who obviously think I'm a loon talking to myself.
Does anyone else feel like this?

Sorry, yes you look like a loon talking to yourself.

Just be thankful you don't look quite as stupid as anyone who holds their phone at at funny angle when on calls, ie at right angles from their chin rather than flat against their ear.

Disclaimer, I probably count as 'the older generation'.

Never understand why people feel the need to talk on the phone when they are doing something else. At the checkout - rude. Walking the dog - dogs don’t like it apparently. Walking round the shops - concentrate on what you are doing ffs.

I personally like to talk on my phone when I'm out because it relaxes me.
Also if your using the self service I don't think it's rude.

You feel like that because well you do look a bit of an idiot, sorry but you do.

Nothing worse than people walking along, talking loudly (it’s always loudly) in to earphones of the phone held out in front of them on some kind of video call. Unless it’s a matter of life and death I think the call could wait until you can hold the phone properly

Meh. I always do it. Couldn't give a monkeys what other people think!

Yep you look like a loon

I've automatically replied to people talking on handsfree before because I haven't initially realised they're using earphones.

When somebody's sitting next to me on public transport & facetiming, with the person they're talking to clearly visible & audible, it's REALLY hard not to join in...

I never face time ..just normal phone call.

I noticed someone doing this yesterday. It does make me jump, because I still always assume that you are talking to me when there is nobody else around. So the startled anxious looks you get are because I am expecting you to accost me.

As I walked away, (relieved that they were ranting at someone else, not me), I did reflect that it is only in very recent history that talking to yourself in the street has become usual. If anyone from the past appeared in our times, they would find this very weird and disturbing.

My dad hates when I do it but he is 70!
I guess eventually people will be used to it.

I suppose it depends where you’re doing it.

It’s very normal in central London and wouldn’t raise any eyebrows.

Id find it very weird if you were walking around shopping and tlaking to thin air/had earphones on! Id probably laugh...

Weirdest one is when you see people with headphones in using hands free, but still holding the phone (not in front of their face for video call) - Don't think I'm ever going to understand that one!

I live in a city but not a big city.
I wish I was one of these super confident people who didn't care what others thought ..but nope massive worrier.

I did that once !!!
I didn't realise I could talk without holding the phone 

I wouldn’t think anything of it. I work in central London and everyone walks around with headphones in talking on hands free. It’s very normal these day.

I guess the more I do it
The less stupid I feel

About once or twice a month i turn to someone nearby thinking they were trying to communicate with me and discover they're hands free'ing to someone else.

It will always look a bit odd - someone talking into thin air - and the split second confusion will always occur. However, even me, a technophobe in a backwater of rural England, can work out what's going on very quickly and i don't 'feel' anything about it at all.

Personally i wouldn't do it because .... it would just feel too odd. I like to hold the thing i'm talking into. That goes for my 3 older DCs too (early 20s) so it's not just an oldies thing.

I'm used to it now of course, but years ago when people first started doing it, I did think they were talking to voices in their heads. I'm still too self conscious to do it myself tbh.

It's better than walking around staring into your phone screen and expecting everyone else to avoid walking into you.