So right now, I'm sitting in the public library and this guys having this full volume conversation on his cel phone, which is irritating enough.
But his conversation is about treatments he's receiving, family and friends he's not getting along with, and how some family members should be minding their own business.....all items he's sharing with a room full of strangers. He could walk three feet off into the stacks and nobody would know he's researching his abusive childhood. He could lower his voice so that only three or four, as opposed to forty, people hear.
I mean, maybe he wants all of us to know that he doesn't want to talk to Amy because he's mad at her. Maybe he really wants us to stop what we're doing, and won't lower his voice just so that we have to give him the attention. But I think i more likely that he's just clueless.
I think people just don't get how their phone conversations are public when they have them in a public place.
This complete lack of understanding that a conversation loses privacy happens on the commuter train as well. Yes, sometimes it's the person who is trying to describe an intersection in a "Joe and the Volcano" type conversation, but sometimes it's a conversation involving names and businesses.
Once a guy on the upper tier had a real long conversation about what an ass his boss is. There's a couple of dozen people on the train who he could not see and any one of them could have worked at his firm.
Once I heard all about this guy's breakup with his son's mom and more about his having to fly to Jersey than I wanted.
Maybe it's the concentration on the phone conversation that makes people forget everyone who is listening.