There is a special place in hell reserved for people who don't use headphones?

[MarpleFan]

Admittedly, I had a bad night's sleep after too many glasses of wine last night, and my journey into the office was quite painful this morning, but even when I'm not being a grumpy cow this irritates the hell out of me...

What is it with people who don't use their headphones on public transport?

One girl chatting to her friend about her boyfriend problems on loudspeaker, so we all had the joy of hearing both sides of the conversation (he sounds like a bit of a shit tbh), then someone watching videos on Instagram on loudspeaker. Why do they think it's socially acceptable to make everyone else in the carriage listen to their nonsense?

Maybe I'm just getting old, but AIBU to think "JUST BY A PAIR OF BLOODY HEADPHONES!!!!"

Rant over.

I hate this with a passion!
I had it when I'll and laying in a hospital bed for 3 days. TVs at each bed, all on different channels blaring out loudly. Add in the phone calls on speaker phone, and various loud, anti social visitors. It was hell on earth.

I don't like it when people play their music out loud but I'd take that ANY TIME over game noises, videos (especially sm videos where each one is like 20 seconds), and fucking bastarding speakerphone calls.

Don't think it's your age, I have been furious about this since it started happening and I was only early 20s. Older people used to be some of the worst as they have ALL THE SOUNDS ON but they seem to have improved, now it's people around 16-26 who are the worst. I cannot fucking stand it.

I wonder if some people genuinely don't know you can hold your phone up to your ear. My headphones broke a while back and I actually forgot you could for a day or two. Habits man.

That’s a very weird combination of topics lol

When we take a radio away in our campervan, if the door is open or we sit outside we use good headphones that don't leak sound. DH fitted a splitter cable so we can both listen to the same thing without disturbing anyone else. I have no tolerance at for other people's music or noise (after living in a house with paper thin walls and kids who had one record they played over and over - to this day Sugar Sugar evokes feeling of rage).

Hell is going to be mighty crowded! Every single bus, train, cafe, airport lounge, whatever I'm in these days has some idiot doing this. There was even a man facetiming his mum for a chat in the supermarket the other day.
I'm quite noise intolerant anyway so the tinny phone sound drives me wild. I usually have to put my own headphones in to drown it out. Which is surely the wrong way round!

This is what I mean! Do people in Germany really tell each other off for anti social behaviour?

The people who put their phone calls on loudspeaker then hold the phone way away from their face so they have to shout into it piss me right off.

I believe it started because of reality shows like the kardashians where they wanted us to hear both sides of the conversation.

But I have no interest in hearing about what Sandra down the road said about Nick when they were all out on the lash last Saturday, or what Maggie needs from Tesco.

Makes me want to bump into the person so they accidentally drop and smash their phone.

I put on some Drowning Pool on my loud speaker next to the man listening to sweary tik toks. He didn’t flinch so I started singing along in my best death metal. When he looked disgusted I said oh sorry, I didn’t realise you could listen out loud but I couldn’t. No clap from the other ladies on the train platform but one did nod at me gleefully!