Is it rude to talk on the phone in a common area?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A woman decided to answer a FACETIME in the (small, crowded) waiting area of our kids' martial arts class last week. Very rude.

GAHHHH why do people do this? I have seen people Facetiming on a Metro bus! They weren't even talking, just watching each other. So bizarre to me!

I don't understand people who have long ass phone convos in public. One thing to chat idly for five minutes and then say "Gotta go, call you back later" but I've been on busses, in grocery stores, waiting rooms, etc. with people having conversations for 30+ minutes! And sometimes about very personal matters. Once in a waiting room this girl was talking about her friend hooking up with a guy at their college homecoming and I was like...maybe she doesn't want you putting her shit on blast in a dermatologist waiting room? Totally foreign concept to me to do this. No one wants to hear you babble incessantly.

[Anonymous]

Depends. Do their have functional legs (or other means of self-propulsion)? If so, yes.

[Anonymous]

Yes

[Anonymous]

Rude. If it's in a hushed voice, and a quick something like "ok, great, I'll pick up up at 6, see you later" that's fine, depending where you are. But if it's a full conversation or above a whisper, go somewhere else.

Also, I work in a HS and FaceTime is the ONLY way the kids talk on the phone. I was in a zoom the other day and a kid walked in and I made the universal hand sign for "I'm on a call" and the kid had zero idea what it meant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A woman decided to answer a FACETIME in the (small, crowded) waiting area of our kids' martial arts class last week. Very rude.

GAHHHH why do people do this? I have seen people Facetiming on a Metro bus! They weren't even talking, just watching each other. So bizarre to me!

I don't understand people who have long ass phone convos in public. One thing to chat idly for five minutes and then say "Gotta go, call you back later" but I've been on busses, in grocery stores, waiting rooms, etc. with people having conversations for 30+ minutes! And sometimes about very personal matters. Once in a waiting room this girl was talking about her friend hooking up with a guy at their college homecoming and I was like...maybe she doesn't want you putting her shit on blast in a dermatologist waiting room? Totally foreign concept to me to do this. No one wants to hear you babble incessantly.

That's when you decide to play your music in public. If they complain, laugh.

[Anonymous]

I was once waiting at the gate at an airport at about 6:30 in the morning when a guy called his daughter on speakerphone and started singing Happy Birthday.

People were glaring at him and grumbling. The daughter said something and the man said -- really loudly -- "I can't hear you, Larla, people here are being very rude and talking out loud in here."

[eyeroll]

[Anonymous]

I was with a friend waiting in line in front of a guy who was yapping madly into his phone.

I turned to my friend and said (at volume) "Do you ever have that not-so-fresh feeling?" We then discussed in detail some of the unpleasant symptoms that come with that "feeling."

Wasn't long before the guy hung up. He also left.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was once waiting at the gate at an airport at about 6:30 in the morning when a guy called his daughter on speakerphone and started singing Happy Birthday.

People were glaring at him and grumbling. The daughter said something and the man said -- really loudly -- "I can't hear you, Larla, people here are being very rude and talking out loud in here."

[eyeroll]

people are so clueless

I was on a bus with some chick who called a friend and had a loud ass conversation about the 6 figure salary offers she was considering. Money clearly doesn't buy class or manners

[Anonymous]

Yes, it’s rude. I turn up the volume or talk loudly to my companions when someone does this if I’ve asked them to talks the call elsewhere and they don’t move.

[Anonymous]

It really isn't any different than someone having a conversation near you. If they aren't on speaker or facetime then you are just bothered that you cant eavesdrop as you are only getting half the conversation.

[Anonymous]

In my personal opinion - if there is an option to converse in another area, then it is best for all to do so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It really isn't any different than someone having a conversation near you. If they aren't on speaker or facetime then you are just bothered that you cant eavesdrop as you are only getting half the conversation.

People need to not be so rude to carry on phone conversations in public spaces. Period

[Anonymous]

i was working (silently) in a public library last week. Dude came in, sat at a table, and proceeded to have a 15-minute work call in the freaking library.

I realize libraries are no longer the complete silent zones they used to be back when I was a kid. But this was completely egregious and rude. He didn't bother to modulate his voice, even. He and I were in an area off to the side of the main library somewhat but it was not at all an enclosed room of any kind.

I know, I should have said something, but like I mentioned -- libraries aren't complete silent zones any more. This one tends to be very, very quiet, though. And I figured he'd only be on for a moment, right? But no sense of shame, he kept going. I put on my headphones (very low because I don't want others to hear any sound bleeding out of them because I have manners) but was on the point of going up to him when he finished and left.

If you need a place to take a work call, do it IN YOUR EFFING CAR if you can't do it in your house. Not in a library. JFC.

[Anonymous]

People who walk around with their Bluetooth in their ears carry-on conversations and you think they're talking to you. It's a lack of social skills.

[Anonymous]

In public? Yes
At home or visiting someone else’s home, depends.