I may have already complained about this, but I was reminded of it again yesterday on the train ride home.
People yakking loudly on their cell phones!!!
Again, as one who is almost never without their cell phone,I don't want to sound like a hypocrite. But I am very conscience of how loud I'm talking in public with it. I think I even talk lower than normal simply for the sake of some privacy. I don't need complete strangers all up in my kool-aid. And txt msging is perf 4 when u just need 2 tell some1 ur almost there or gonna b l8.
A couple of weeks ago some teenager was on the phone, blabbering away to someone name Caroline. I know this for sure because it seems they had a bad connection so there would be extended periods of her yelling "Caroline? Caroline? Caroline?" This girl was planning to have some friends over that evening. And she kept getting louder and louder. People actually moved to the other end of the car. Her friend sitting next to her even shushed her a bunch of times because she was practically yelling on the phone. So now everyone on that side of the car knew she was having friends over, who was and who was not invited, that her friend was grounded because his grades were bad the last quarter, and way too much other information.
Yesterday this woman was just yakking away the most of the ride home. This woman next to me gets this disgusted look on her face and moves to the other end of the car, only to pull out her cell phone and start yakking. Luckily I was able to escape into the 32-bit world of my GameBoy.
And now the CTA is going to install transmitters in the subway so people can blab away on their phones underground. Anybody who's ridden the trains underground in Chicago knows it's so loud you can barely hear the person next you. I can only imagine the yelling people will have to do on their cell phones. I guess I just need to invest in a new pair of headphones for my iPod. Not those weak-ass little white ear-buds that are pretty much only good for announcing to the rest of the world that you're super cool because you have an iPod. I need to get those big-ass headphones like the ones I use to DJ. Make fun of me if you want, but I won't have to hear you yakking about whatever crap you must yak about on the train.