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.

Yabu. I'm dead nosy and love judging an overheard conversation.

I hate it too, but even worse are people who watch films or utube videos on loud speakers or let their toddler watch without speakers. So very weird!

On speakers sorry. I mean no headphones.

You can object by saying to her that information is being said which could put her at risk. Saying that effectively no man lives with her could give ideas to a man with bad intentions. You never know what someone else in a train carriage is like.

I don't think it's any worse than being in the same carriage as people talking to each other.

But they are almost always louder on phones.

Train wankers

i had someone FaceTime on speaker next to me. I developed a terrible cough and they moved.

My 85 year old nan has a good trick for when this happens. She picks up her ancient mobile phone and extreamly loudly has fake conversations. She's louder than the other person. Often makes them realise what a knob they are when they see someone else do it.

Only recommended if you're 85, you don't care what any one thinks and no one can do anything about it 😂

Making loud phone calls on the train is seventeenth place on my list of reasons why people should be shot.

There are 334 others on my list, though

Typical drama llama Mumsnet.

I hate it too

So rude

If this ever happens, act as if she's talking to you.. respond to everything she says as if you're the other person, and loudly enough for her to hear!

If she gets annoyed, say "oh I'm sorry, was I being rude??? Was I talking too loud? As I not being considerate of you on this train???"

She'll get the message :)

There was this woman at the gym who always went with her long suffering friend. I truly felt for the friend. Woman talked audibly and incessantly for the entire, and I mean entire time they were there. In the pool, on the treadmill, in the changing room, in the jacuzzi, in the sauna. Once in the sauna, she was going on and on about someone she knew who owned two houses. A complete stranger, also in the sauna piped up and said “wow, really….two houses? That’s incredible.” There was a moment of stunned silence, before she simply started up again, launching herself at full pelt, utterly undeterred.

BigMands I used to go swimming in a pool where 2 insufferable women swam up & down at snail's pace, positioning themselves in such a way as to cause maximum inconvenience to other pool users, with one of the talking non-stop to the other. Eventually I witnessed a frustrated swimmer absolutely lose it with them shouting "Why the fuck don't you bloody SWIM now and have the CHAT later??"
I found this very satisfying

Hung, drawn and quartered if they do it in the Quiet Coach.

I'm staggered that people still do this tbh.

In the days before text and WhatsApp were common it was more understandable but there's no excuse for it today and its a widely accepted thing that it's really poor etiquette to subject everyone to the tedious detail of your life.

Oh it is worse. If you're only hearing half of the conversation then your brain keeps subconsciously trying to fill in the blanks, making you distracted.

On a 35 min train journey recently:
Man A across the carriage having loud discussion with his landlord. I went from sympathy for him to thinking no wonder the landlord wanted him out to thinking they were both slithery chancers and deserved each other.

Woman B a few seats away. Not a moment when she wasn’t talking, don’t know how she managed to get oxygen in, and everyone was privy to details about her very identifiable workplace and specific project. Eyebrows were being raised around her. Saving grace was pleasant voice.

Man C standing behind us ( we were in a pair of seats next to exit space, facing away from him) Relatively quiet conversation ( A and B were much higher volume) but then suddenly burst out, loudly ‘ But I am finessing my psychic and emotional health holistically! ‘

My husband, who had been battling to keep reading, shut the book, looked at me and we both couldn’t stop laughing.

Journey back - peace. Occasional rustle of papers.

😂To be honest, I've caught myself doing exactly that!

I will never understand people who have long involved conversations on public transport before 9 in the morning no one I know even has time to text in the mornings never mind have a long chat . One of my 20 something colleagues seems to have phoned about 3 of her friends on her way into work each day I have to say if anyone phoned me for a non urgent chat at that time of day I would not be answering them

It really irritates me. If someone calls me, I don't answer and just text them saying ill call later.

I've sat here trying to work out why it annoys me so much and I can't come up with anything except I think its just rude.

For me it’s any loud conversation in public. Loud phone calls drive me mad but there were two women near me having the loudest conversation (face to face) which was every bit as irritating as a mobile phone one.

My dad's GP rang me, when I was on the train travelling back from visiting him. His death was approaching and I had already discussed his end of life care with the GP. The phone call was because she wanted to confirm our conversation, (why?) and ask further questions (we had already covered everything). I told her I was on the train, in a full carriage but she insisted she would not ring back later, not would she sign off the plan until we had reviewed it.
It was awful and I could not do anything about it.
I tried to speak as quietly as possible.

Hate this too, especially on trains/planes. Amazon EarPods, music with background sounds is the best way to deal with it imo!

I also love eavesdropping on juicy conversations, but quite often it's a Very Important Man talking about his Very Important Job and Very Important Meetings at full volume 🙄

YANBU people shouting into their phones (they are so loud they don't need a fucking phone) are cunts. <gavel>