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Annoying noises!

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Aria999 · 12/12/2023 14:53

Sitting in the waiting area waiting for my car to be serviced and another customer has just started a really loud children's game with their child on a tablet.

'Hello there! The shapes have gone on a winter adventure. Let's follow them!'

WIBU to go over and smash it?

There is only one other person in here apart from them and me.

Lighthearted, kind of.

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OldTinHat · 12/12/2023 15:03

YANBU. Smash it and jump up and down on it for good measure!

BlueberryVelvet · 12/12/2023 15:09

I have an inconsiderate hulk.

It’s an instant rage inside me when confronted with inconsideration. If I let my hulk loose
I’d have been jailed years ago.

Smash in your imagination, glare in reality.

Lifeetc · 12/12/2023 15:25

I'm sat in my second waiting room if the day....... Some people are so incredibly inconsiderate.
Clicking keypads on phones
Sniffing
Weird half coughs
Sniffing
Chatting random shit at you
Sniffing
Watching stuff on their phones without headphones
Have I mentioned the sniffing?! 🤬

Lifeetc · 12/12/2023 15:27

Oh and the humming
(And running late, tho that's not a noise it's adding to my annoyance) 🤫🤫🤫

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Aria999 · 12/12/2023 15:29

BlueberryVelvet · 12/12/2023 15:09

I have an inconsiderate hulk.

It’s an instant rage inside me when confronted with inconsideration. If I let my hulk loose
I’d have been jailed years ago.

Smash in your imagination, glare in reality.

Edited

In the end I left the area in a Marked Manner, pausing to glare on the way out.

Culprit totally oblivious.

I have found somewhere else to sit.

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Sexlivesofthepotatomen · 12/12/2023 15:30

There's a guy at work who takes every single phone call on loudspeaker and then wanders around the office so we all have the pleasure, he also has one of those clicky pens which he constantly clicks when he's on said phone. I have fantasies of stabbing him through the hand with the bastard pen and then stamping on his phone

Lifeetc · 12/12/2023 15:40

The adult next to me is now listening to YouTube clips up to her ear!!! I can heat it better than she can. 🤫🤬🤫🤬

ManateeFair · 12/12/2023 16:12

I once sat for 45 minutes waiting for a hospital appointment and for 40 of those a child, without headphones, was alternately watching the Baby Shark song over and over again, or some kind of educational game where a loud, OTT American woman's voice kept saying things like "GREAT MATH, CHAMP!", "WOW, GOOD JOB!" and "CAN I GET A HIGH FIVE!"

Once the child and parent had gone, the man opposite me looked up and said "Oh my DAYS, that 'great math' voice can fucking do one, innit?"

AnxiousPangolin · 12/12/2023 16:16

I was on a train with someone doing Duolingo.

ping!
ping!
ping!
ping!
ping!
ping!

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Aria999 · 12/12/2023 16:17

ManateeFair · 12/12/2023 16:12

I once sat for 45 minutes waiting for a hospital appointment and for 40 of those a child, without headphones, was alternately watching the Baby Shark song over and over again, or some kind of educational game where a loud, OTT American woman's voice kept saying things like "GREAT MATH, CHAMP!", "WOW, GOOD JOB!" and "CAN I GET A HIGH FIVE!"

Once the child and parent had gone, the man opposite me looked up and said "Oh my DAYS, that 'great math' voice can fucking do one, innit?"

lol you win 🤣🤣

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