Aibu or is this a thing - no headphones

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So I was at a busy hospital waiting area today very crowded nearly every seat taken about 60 people. Woman opposite me and dd was watching something on her phone very loud. I would have loved to watch a movie or something on my phone but forgot my headphones and it wouldn't occur to me to just play it with the sound. Is this a thing now am I out of touch or aibu

Omg I was on a bus last week and a woman with her two kids came on. Both immediately started arguing and hitting each other and screaming (both boys about 8/9/10 years old). Mum was yelling at them that they would get them chucked off the bus. After about 10 mins of absolute chaos she pulled out two iPads and shoved them in front of them… which should have been better but they both had them on blasting obnoxious cartoon sounds for the whole bus to hear. Luckily I had my loop earplugs with me to drown it out but my lovely 30 mins on the bus home before I encountered the noise and chaos of my own children was completely
ruined and I was so overstimulated by the sound of the two full-volume cartoons being completely
out of sync that I found the evening really difficult for the rest of the evening. There’s something about being able to hear a screen but not see it which is really disorientating and overwhelming.

YANBU.

It's so common now, and I honestly don't think most people who do it even realise it's annoying/others can hear - like someone said above, they're just hypnotised by their own device.

A couple of weeks ago I was sitting in the sauna at the gym and a man (maybe 25-30) got out his phone and started playing football videos with commentary at a massive volume! I immediately said, "Can you turn that off please?" - he looked surprised and said "Off?" like he wasn't sure what I meant! I said yes and he did turn it off, but jesus christ, who has their phone in their hand in the SAUNA and who thinks that's somewhere you can just blast Youtube?!

'I notice now our local bus company has put up some adverts about how it's more polite to use headphones.'

The problem is that the obnoxious people who don't use headphones won't give a single shiny fig about what some sign or advert says. They probably won't even notice it

I never set foot on public transport without my headphones but I can often hear some idiot's racket over the sound of whatever I'm listening to 😡 I think it's become way more common. It used to just be youngsters but now it's all ages, blaring shite out of their phones or bellowing their way through a conversation on loudspeaker. There's no excuse for it. No headphones, no sound. Learn how to behave appropriately in public

Good on you!

Me too. Twice in cinema someone next to me has been looking at phone screen so now I lean over and look which seems to work beter than tutting😂