To detest people who talk endlessly on their mobile phone on the train

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My journey is currently being ruined by this woman, blethering on and on and on about her ‘co-parenting’ problems. I wish I had the courage to tell her to shut up because nobody cares. Blah blah blah.

I just find it mildly irritating at best, but I normally have earbuds in.

Unfortunately, you can't stop life happening around you. Either embrace it as one of life's unpleasant experiences or just do what everyone else is doing and ignore it.

Was on a packed train with teen dd yesterday after a long day in London. Behind us were 4 pre teens playing truth or dare and spin the bottle laughing and shouting hysterically and daring each other to shout out such things as “your nan is fat” and getting progressively louder.1 and a half hours of this. Irritated didn’t even begin to describe how I was feeling. Lots of disapproving looks from fellow passengers. Two mums of said kids sat across the aisle and occasionally asked them to be quieter and were totally ignored. I very nearly stood up and gave them a piece of my mind but dd would have been mortified. I strongly suspect I would have got some applause from fellow passengers though!

People have now upped the ante and loud mobile calls are so yesterday compared to having the call on loudspeaker! I’ve lost count how many of those I’ve been subjected to😡

Once on a crowded train all of us in the carriage had to listen to a man arranging his father's funeral on the phone. Sentences like "My sister hasn't viewed the body yet, when can she come and do that?" rang out loudly. He seemed completely oblivious to how inappropriate a place it was to make such a call

Im currently sitting in a hair salon and the woman next to me is loudly FaceTiming her mum. Throughout the entire appointment. Very rude to the stylist and the rest of us who have been forced to listen to her mum's medical ailments and various other things that would have been better discussed privately. Someone mentioned it and she seemed genuinely surprised - 'it's no different than if my mum was sat next to me.'

I find things like that extremely embarrassing. Some people really don't care and I find it such an odd part of the psyche.

Oh god they're awful. But whyyyy is it so awful? I can't put my finger on it. Somehow I don't mind two people having a conversation but there's something about one way mobile convos that are irritating as fuck

I would be tempted to join in! Give her some suggestions on what she could do

suggest she posts on MN for some support!

if she says mind your own I would tell her the whole carriage is now invested in her problems as she has been very loudly forthcoming about them

It’s the really self important work calls that get me. Made really loudly so everyone in the carriage knows how important they are.

I was on a train the other day and witnessed someone having a teams meeting with 5 other people on her speakers! Utterly baffling.

This is one of the upsides of being profoundly deaf. I just turn my hearing aid off. Bliss 😁

one of the delights of society we have to put up with nowadays! Totally pig ignorant to anyone else but themselves!

Yes.

Bring back hanging.

People with no regard for others around them treating public transport like their lounge. Inconsiderate. Not just talking on a train.

Oooo aren't you hard and edgy.

Sitting in the Quiet Zone has its own risk. When someone starts a conversation there the irritation is magnified tenfold.

I used get the 0620 into London, sitting in the QZ with the same silent, stony faces. One time a group of four got in, full of joy and answering phone calls with "I'm on a train! Going to the airport! I'm on holiday!". Being a true Brit I sat there, silently raging, sometimes catching the eye of a fellow stony who I knew felt the same.

Turn your ringtone to loudest and get your pal to phone you so you can ignore it and annoy the culprit.

Exactly! I don't get it either. Even loud conversations between two people don't bother me like a mobile phone conversation does and I have no idea why.

I was on a bus last week and a guy got on and sat directly behind me and had a loud phone conversation. In the end, I felt so irritated that I turned round and glared at him. He caught my eye and my glare.

Reader - he got up and went upstairs. No more phone call behind me. Omg. My new superpower?

I find it interesting that there are people who do this without a second thought, and people who would be absolutely horrified by the idea and would feel very self conscious about bothering other passengers.

Like people's brains just work so differently.

No judgement on either personality type really, but it's just intriguing.

One of my biggest pet peeves especially in a quiet zone!

I've no patience for people who talk endlessly full stop.

Yes, sometimes it's annoying and sometimes it's fun to eavesdrop.

But this is also coming to planes, thanks to the EU. Why. Just why. Why does anyone need to make a phone call on a plane?

I like to listen in. Sometimes it's quite juicy...🤣🤣🤣🤣

I hate it and wouldn't do it myself.