For asking him to turn his phone down?

[Annny27]

Currently sat in antenatal triage for movements with pregnant women and their partners who have pregnancy complications and one couple are just awful 🙈

He has been watching tiktok out loud on his phone for about half an hour laughing and being really annoying.

AIBU to think that hospitals are potentially full of people with serious issues who dont want to listen to your shit tiktok 😶

I think all medical waiting rooms should have quiet rules haha

Yanbu
Although, I'm a bit of a wuss at times and would be asking a member of staff to tell him off for me!

@Pinkflipflop85 that's a good idea....time to sneak off "to the loo" and ask someone haha!

YANBU. Pre-having DD, i was sat in the waiting room in a big NHS London hospital waiting to have my initial fertility tests done before starting ovulation induction. Letter had said for partners not to come (this was summer 2020) so i duly left DH at home. Obviously a bit nervous, very stressed after a long TTC journey to this point etc. In the waiting room, not only was there another couple sat waiting who had ignored the instructions in the letter, but the man turned the tv over onto Russia Today (from Escape to the Country, which i was quite enjoying tbf! 😂), turned up the volume and proceeded to go on at length about conspiracy theories until i was called in. I took some small pleasure as i went in hearing him moan to the receptionist about why i had been called before them, only to be given very short shrift and told it was because my appointment time was before theirs!

@AnotherNC22 that sounds horrific - yep theres always one couple isnt there 🙈🙈

I bet all the staff were also thinking the same as everyone in the waiting room. Luckily no TV here for consipiracists rants haha

YANBU. Inconsiderate wanker.

This makes me so cross on behalf of you all. Women in hospital should not have to be bothered or feel intimidated by other people.

What a prick. I would have said something to him though. Especially had I been in a stressful place
emotionally.

Imagine being married to it.

Yanbu. I read a thread on twitter a while ago from a nurse about the horrible things male partners do whilst in the maternity wards from eating the food meant for their wives, moaning about lack of a bed for them, spending the entire time on their phones and generally being a nuisance.

But your OP says you've already asked him?

Staff absolutely should be telling him to turn it off, if they're both incapable of a tiny little bit of consideration for others

This is everywhere in public people not using headphones.

My Dh and elderly df (87) have had hospital stays with many patients playing their bedside TVs full volume as if they were sat in their living rooms at home. Surely NHS managers should be putting up signs (I know people will ignore) to stop this happening?

Plus, more widely, it would be good that people who did this were discouraged from or shamed as part of anti social behaviour?

They encourage people to use phones so we don’t bother them. It’s a bastard mare!

Yep a little consideration needed in medical settings and public places (maybe I am getting grumpy as I get older haha!)

Yep I feel bad for the staff too as it cant be nice having to talk to intimidating partners like that either!

I did and he gave a look of disgust and didnt change the volume (think he actually turned it up 🙈)

That's sounds horrific!