phone calls in neighbours gardens

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Why do people insist on making lengthy phone calls from their gardens? I want to enjoy my garden not listen to people talking about their jobs and their love live.
If they don't want their family to hear them why do they think it's ok for strangers to hear them?
So anti-social.

Yes there is and have you noticed how posters have deliberately changed it over the course of the thread?

Enough time for mumsnet, like yourself?

You need to meditate or something if someone working across the other side of their garden from you, having an occasional phone call drives you mad.

I dont take loud phone calls.

I finish at 12 my dear. Just waiting for the shopping to get delivered before I get ready to go out for tea 😊

Then your contributions to this thread are irrelevant aren’t they.

Ah so its down graded to 'an occasional call' now is it

Again where is the loud coming from. I wear headphones? No one is being loud.

🤣

So what is your point?

my neighbour does it in her conservatory with her back door open and jt echos. Does my
head in

As I said in my earlier post, today I had 3 calls, probably lasting 5 minutes each.

So yes. Occasional. I don't work in a call centre.

That I am doing nothing wrong?

Then the thread is about someone like you is it.

The thread is pretty irrelevant really isnt it.

No it isn’t. Your contributions are though.

It is not anti-social to talk on your phone in your own garden.
I live in a mid-terrace house and I can hear people on phones indoors too.
It is just part of living close to others.

As are yours 😉

Not true.

Silly winky face arse.

same here, ours has the most grating voice too and can only seem to speak LOUDLY. Also moans over the fence any time our kids make any noise, once threatened to call police when dh told her to fuck off. These types of people have zero self awareness, like the ones using speakerphone on public transport

Not everyone does it

Thanks for the love KOOLA1D 😁

We could all do with some love.

That was my intention

I don't expect them not to talk in their gardens: don't be silly.

You likely know very well that phone calls are a different sort of communication. People have a phone voice, which is much louder and clearer. It's intrusive in the way that just chatting is not.

Do you also think they're being inconsiderate if they sit in their garden with a mate and have a chat over coffee?

I think it’s inconsiderate to have that chat in loud booming voices without understanding that our behaviour impacts the people around us. You can chat over coffee in a normal voice.

Some people are extremely loud. My neighbours are a very loud family. They bellow from the back door to the end of the very long garden. He is loud and booming, she is loud and screechy. They make calls to Australia and you wonder why they’re bothering to use a phone, they might as well just shout. If they are having coffee in the garden I can clearly hear everything they say, it’s like I’m sitting with them. They are insufferable.