I drive a cab. The other day this girl in her 20s who was like a freaking social media character; she had that no-heat curl thing in her hair and a Stanley cup and everything. She was nice and all, but she played videos on her phone with the volume up the whole hour drive and while I wasn't really annoyed because it wasn't super loud I still would never do that.
But I thought, hey, maybe her ear buds are in her suitcase or whatever, nbd.
She gets out and I realize she's had whole entire headphones in her hand the whole time.
Again, it wasn't the worst, she didn't have the volume on high. But it was weird.
(And just for context, I'm a woman and while people have described me as many things, "sketchy" and "threatening" have never been one of them, so I don't think it was a safety thing.)
I just got back from a trip to Italy and Croatia and I found these places to have a shitload of people who will just scroll their phones at full blast. Drives me insane.
Edit: I’m from Canada btw. Here if someone is scrolling loud I at least feel comfortable telling them to shut up, but I definitely come across it faaaar less at home.
People like that only respond to authority figures. They're un-shameable because if they had any shame to begin with, they wouldn't be such asshats in public.
I don’t think it is considered polite by the majority of the people in most European countries either, still some people do it which drives me crazy. I have personal experience mostly in Italy and Finland, and it has become more common in the recent years.
Yeah as an American here in London, I don’t tolerate it on long train rides. I say in a loud voice that someone forgot to put their headphones on, and when they ignore that I say that I’ll give one more chance before I send my husband back there (and by this point they have heard my accent), and 100% of the time it’s silence after that.
There’s always a Southern European talking on speaker in the Quiet Carriage of European trains, too. 🤡
In France they even get offended if you ask them to turn the volume off in public transports it’s becoming really tiring to explain I can’t even enjoy my own music in my ear pièce from how much they blast their TikTok
Someone needs to pull out a 90s stereo and drown out their antisocial crap for a minute, give them a taste of their own medicine, on tape cassette so they appreciate the crummy sound quality as well.
I moved to Panama after college in 2011, and got my introduction to bachata and reggaeton music via seven different phones playing at the same time on an overnight bus ride.
I seriously don't get it. Even if you don't have any issue with spamming your local area with unwanted audio, your headphones definitely sound better than the phone speaker. Why wouldn't you just use them if you've got them? It's main character syndrome behavior.
Also, I'm kind of fascinated by this -- are you like an actual cab driver or Uber/Lyft? I realize I've spent a ton of time in NYC back in the day and have never seen an actual yellow cab driven by a woman. I've definitely had many woman Uber/Lyft drivers though -- like probably close to 25% (I don't take many Uber/Lyfts so this number is highly anecdotal).
It had never really occurred to me that the classic taxi driver business was (nearly?) an exclusively male occupation, but it kind of obviously was. I also understand why -- without a feedback/rating system, you're literally just picking anyone off up the street.
Actual taxi driver. I mostly take people to and from a small but popular vacation town to the slightly larger town's airport an hour away; my customers are both locals and tourists. I work for a local guy who has been running his own taxi business for years and needed some help. Everything is by reservation, so it feels a lot safer than the "rando off the street" style of cab work. (Not that that work isn't important; I just don't do it.)
I don't just think it's their phones either. I swear the number of times I'm staying at a hotel or an apartment somewhere, it's 3am and I'm fast asleep. But some boomer or genZ are having a really loud conversation outside the window, in a residential street, complete with laughter and expressive noises. At 3 fucking am.
Fuck me it's 3am in the morning. Quiten down with the vocal volume!
Call me weird, but I think it's rude to put headphones on during an Uber ride. Would you wear headphones at a restaurant and expect decent service?
I guess the driver doesn't exactly need to take my order or fill up my water, but it still feels weird to me to be that close to someone who is doing me a service and not be attentive to them.
I'm not an Uber driver; I work for a taxi company. I always let the customer set the tone for the ride. If they want to talk, we talk. Usually my fares are 60-90 minutes, though, and a lot of the time small talk kinda dies down after 10 minutes or so and people read, talk amongst themselves, scroll social media, or fall asleep. This is totally fine and I don't consider it at all rude. Some days, I prefer it. I always have an ear bud in to listen to my GPS/take calls from my boss or future scheduled cliente, and if they decide they want to be quiet, I listen to a podcast.
Yeah. I'll chalk it up to being young and oblivious. It wasn't super loud.
Lady today played the same short video about dog treats like three times and then one about maple glaze like six times for no reason I can think of and then turned it off. I'm still confused about that one lol.
I am a gen z gal and I won't listen to videos or songs in a rideshare or taxi, but I won't put headphones or earbuds on either. Have to maintain some situational awareness.
One time I was in a bathroom at a gas station and some dude was in the stall listening to “I will survive” or the one about ain’t no mountain high enough. Max volume.
Ugh, a fellow Xennial saying "crashing out!?" Gross. Didn't think k we did that kinda shit. That term sounds like a cutesy word for a grown adult throwing a temper tantrum like a toddler.
I don't know which group this past middle aged guy belongs to, but I have that tap tap noise on because I miss having the full physical feedback of buttons. The tap helps alleviate the long lost love of my N900.
If you younger generations could stop talking all your fucking calls on loudspeaker, that would be great.
I mean, I turn all that shit off because I personally don't care for it, so I don't know--do some phones not do haptic feedback anymore? Would make more sense to have that than sound if you miss physical feedback, if the feature still exists.
As for speakphone, I am curious why this is popular. Rise of FaceTime made people used to not holding the headset? In public, though, it's pretty disruptive.
I was in a small waiting room in hospital a few months back. 8 of us in the room, obviously sick.
Some fucking dickhead decided we needed to hear every bit of his conversation with his mate on loudspeaker. I swear to god, at least half of the human population needs to be exterminated.
Even the best haptic feedback I've gotten (which was a xiomai surprisingly), is not a replacement for the feel of a push in click that tells your finger it's OK to let go and go to the next key.
I use very clickable keyboards at home for the same reason.
I teach on medical floors, not classrooms. Having phones out is not uncommon. Of the people/patients I encounter, if the click is on, they are very heavily likely to be over 60 or in their 20s. There are enough likes on the original comment that I'm clearly not the only one who has noticed this in their corner of the world.
Like, it's not that serious, bro. No need to be condescending or fight so hard about this. It's an observation, nothing more.
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u/stuckanon01 Aug 14 '26
One of the most irritating things about hanging with boomers is that they always have their phone ringer on and set to 11/10