To think so many people have main character syndrome these days

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I have misophonia which doesn't help, but I dread getting the train which I have to do to work 3 times per week. If it's rammed I can't even listen to music all the time because if I'm standing up I have to constantly be aware of who's around me, getting on and off the train etc.

So many people are just so loud, as if they're the only ones on the train. People of all ages, incapable of talking at a normal volume. I will let teenagers off as they're not yet adults but I am sick of hearing people just shouting at top note, bellowing across the carriage, cackling loudly at the top of their lungs. People have no consideration for others, it just makes the journey so stressful. Anyone else?

Its not changed. It has been like this since I used to commute in the 90s and the trams were awful when I was kid.

Agree. Children have ridiculously short attention spans now. They are used to th8ngs happening every 20 seconds on a screen

The older I get, the louder the world seems to become. I don't know if things are getting louder or if my tolerance is going down but I find myself needing to take myself off for a few minutes during the day to stop myself going insane.

My daughter's American YouTubers, my god, do they SHOUT. I can't bear even a few seconds of it.

My mum the other day, she's got such a loud voice anyway but when she's worked up about something she BOOMS. I had to tell her mum, sorry, but can you tone it down a little?

It's all just too much.

And what's with the people that stand stock still in shop doorways or in the middle of busy aisles, looking gormlessly around? I encounter one pretty much every day. A bloke yesterday stopped in front of me in a shop doorways, blocking the exit while he rolled a cigarette! Then got irritated with me when I asked him to move!

But I've been on threads like this before and people will simply tell you that you are mean, impatient, intolerant and selfish and that it's perfectly reasonable to roll a fag in a shop doorway because your minute is not more important than their minute.

Honestly, sometimes when everyone is asleep and the world is quiet and dark and I'm alone and in peace and silence, I feel like I could stay that way forever.

I travel on trains a lot and most, not all, but most people are fine. Perhaps you notice what you focus on

I find it depends on the area, train you get and time of day. The London Victoria commuter train I get is fine, just full of commuters going to work in London. The other train I get stops at all the towns near me, and it’s a completely different demographic. As someone who travels frequently, I would disagree with you.

I was on the train yesterday and so many people were loud. Then at Heathrow yesterday I sat close to a man who was snorting and sniffing. Absolutely gross. A woman next to me on the flight picking her nose. Two other women being really loud. A woman ran past me in the terminal & bashed me with her backpack on purpose because I hadn't let her out of the seats in front of me on the plane.

I just despair.

I live in a touristy area and this happens all the time with groups of people. It’s like they think they are in their own Disneyland.

Most behaviour I can grit my teeth and tell myself that it's only for ten minutes or whatever, but I can't cope with these clowns who stand two feet from each other yet still have to have their conversation so loud that everyone hears every word twenty feet away. Men, women, young, middle aged, it doesn't matter. Do they live in noisy households? Do they think everyone has hearing problems? Are they massive performative dickheads? Just stop, please.

I agree, mix alcohol, nighttime and standing outside their front door, while you're trying to sleep in the mix, and it is frustrating to say the least.

I mostly agree with you but I think you can give people a pass on the coughing. We've just been through cold/flu season and a lot of people's lungs are buggered from Covid.

As long as they make an effort to cover their mouth, preferable cough into elbow. The amount of people who just cough ignorantly into the air with no regard fo others is appalling.

Yep. Recently on a train to London we actually had to move, family of mum two grown up daughters and their Partners. Constantly talking really loudly - it was energy draining, everyone round them was getting annoyed! We ended up moving carriages. Don’t even get me started on the ones who play films on their phones with no headphones or phone people on speaker.

I agree with you!

You've just made me think, I just automatically elbow-cough now. Coughing into my hands would feel really weird.