r/Millennials • u/watermelon_fries Millennial • Aug 14 '26

Meme Always on silent

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u/EmotionalRiver1033 Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 15 '26

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.

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u/CycadelicSparkles Aug 15 '26

Yeah, generally in the US it's not considered polite, at least I don't think it is. People do it, but I don't ever see anyone defending it.

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u/A_Little_Sprig Aug 15 '26

When I was in the ER I had to repeatedly ask a Gen X woman to stop blasting her phone. One of the other people in the room told ME I was being rude!

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u/CycadelicSparkles Aug 15 '26

I'm sure ER staff has better things to be doing but I do feel like there should be a rule against that.

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u/A_Little_Sprig Aug 15 '26

I did eventually get the staff involved. I desperately needed to sleep and was crammed in a room with like 8 other people.

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u/RoguePlanet2 Aug 18 '26

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.