OVerhearing other's cell phone conversations

[CrazedDisFan]

I was watching Good Morning America the other day and they said over 50% of Americans say they have felt uncomfortable about a cell conversation they had overheard.

I started thinking about this and distinctly recalled a conversaton overheard on the bus from HIFS to Disney. It is isn't pretty, but the core of the conversation is below, and apparently she had a bad connection, because she was all but screaming.

*Men stop reading here, it's women stuff*

This woman calls her doctor's office and is telling them the Monistat is NOT working. She has used every over the counter thing possible and if they don't do something about the itching she is going to go mad. By this time my husband is turning green and I am so wanting to tell her this is not a good place to be having that conversation. Just then her husband pipes up about the odor. Then the bus stopped at Animal Kingdom.

OMG I was so happy that bus stopped! We got off the bus and happily waited for 15 minutes for a bus to Magic Kingdom, which would have been the next stop on the HIFS bus. We just couldn't bear another minute of the blond ladies medical issue.


Anyone have any other interesting cell phone stories?

 

[Pam]

I think yours takes the prize!!

I think I would have been tempted to pipe and suggest that the husband buy a clothespin for his nose if he couldn't tolerate the odor....

 

[poohbear1029]

In the Tampa Airport on Sunday, I know in great detail that this woman waiting to board our plane was in FL to see her mother who had a heart cath and has 70% blockage which they are going to try to treat with medicine first before doing a bypass. And, I only really cued into this because she was speaking loudly...and called about 10 people to tell them.

This is my pet peeve, assuming people cant hear you. And I am talking both on cell phones and when people are speaking a foreign language. More power to you and all the right to converse with your family and friends in your native tongue, but remember, just because I cant understand you, doesnt mean I cant hear you and you still should speak at an appropriate volume level for your situation. Loud talking is loud talking regardless of the language!

 

[helenabear]

Wow, that one is pretty bad!

The worst I've had was in a bathroom here at work... somoene was in a stall when their cell rang... they took their call and proceeded to have a discussion about her boyfriend and some "physical issues" they were having

The bathroom was bad enough, but to talk about that there... more than I wanted to hear

 

[swanmom]

On a commuter train from NYC to the suburbs at around 6:00 p.m., a guy started talking loudly about a major failing of a major company that would be reported "tonight - after dinnertime so it won't make the evening news." He went on to loudly disucss how this was likely to impact projected earnings. I will say that he did not name the company out loud but gave enough specifics that all the business people on the train knew who he was discussing. The reason I know that they knew which company he was talking about is that half the people on the train immediately got on the phone. It was so funny to see all of them pick up the phone at the exactly same time, frantically calling to reach their brokers.

 

[Lucky4me]

I think it's bizzare when people carry on a cell phone conversation right next to you. I like to react to what they're saying. I laugh, look shocked, sad, whatever the case may be. It usually causes them to look at me like I'm nuts, but at least they lower their voices and move away.......

 

[Kimickey]

Why do people want the entire world to know what is going on WRONG with them, is way beyond my comprehension.

 

[Kallison]

People are always amazed that I don't have a cell phone. Or my kids. OMIGOD, how do you survive? Well the way we always used to, use a pay phone or ask to use the phone. Why does everyone need to know your whereabouts 24 hours per day? I don't get it. I tell my kids, check in when you get home, call when you get to a friends house. I'm a bit neurotic, I 'm convinced they cause brain cancer. My kids won't get one until they are driving. I was behind my neighbor at the polls the other day, I couldn't believe he talked on that cell phone for an entire hour.

 

[Galahad]

DW is an OB. She's constantly getting paged by the hospital about this patient or that when we are out and about. She is often on a position to need to have pretty graphic conversations and no good place to go to have them. It can get pretty awkward for me and the boys.

 

[bellacam]

This happened yesterday to me! I am an assistant manager at a retail clothing store and we are looking to hire holiday help. A girl was filling out an application at our wrap desk. Her cell rand and she answered it. She said "Hi Dad" and proceeeded to thell him where she was and what she was doing. He must have asked why she needed another job because she said "Bleeping Michelle got fired, moved out, and stuck me for the rent. Now I have to work two bleeping crummy jobs to make ends meet!"
She then said "Only bleeping retail is hiring right now...You know I hate retail" Needless to say, she won't be getting hired!

 

[Nancy]

I was in the rest room and heard the person in the next stall talking. My first thought was "thios lady is nuts talking to herslef in the bathroom" but she was having a discussion with her boyfreind and it did get rather loud! Personally I wouldn't be sitting on the toilet talking to someone...kinda rude when you go to flush!

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Originally posted by Pam

I think yours takes the prize!!

I think I would have been tempted to pipe and suggest that the husband buy a clothespin for his nose if he couldn't tolerate the odor....

HAHAHHA....

I would have said, I can't but help to overhear your conversation, sounds like a bacterial infection." Maybe that would have shut her up!

HAHAHAHAH...

I think it's all funny. Gosh I see a Southpark episode in that one.

 

[Castlebound]

I don't think that people on cell phones are any worse about talking about personal stuff in public than people having conversations with others that are there with them. I think we just notice it more because there is not someone else standing there with them. Either way I hate it.

At Disney we were standing in line for the Peter Pan ride and there were two women going into detail about how their sex lives had change after being married for a few years. There we stood with our DS 6 and DD 4 hearing all of the gory details. I just stared at the women for several minutes while my husband tried to distract our kids. One of the women finally looked at me and in a very snooty tone said, "do you mind?". I said, "actually I do mind you going into detail about your sex lives infront of my kids". They just then seemed to realize that there were kids all around them. They apologized and for the rest of the wait talked about something else.

 

[Maleficent13]

The other thing that always kills me is people who think their cube walls are sound proof. Hello, they're only 5 feet high and they only have three sides. They are not private. So it's generally not a good idea to call your husband and complain about your boss - to the point of mimicking her laughter - when the object of your scorn is sitting less than three feet away.

 

[Stepharoonie!]

There's some hidden camera show on Comedy Central which plays once in awhile....dang it, I can't remember the name of it now....but it's a British comedy show where the guy does things to get reactions of out people. I think he was making fun of this particular conversation in one episode I saw.

There was a men's urinal and two men were using the wall units, there was one in the stall. You hear a phone ring and a guy scream, "HELLO?! WHAT?! WHAT?! I CAN'T HEAR YOU! I'M IN THE TOILET!!" and then comes out of the stall with this gigantic cell phone. One of the men at the urinals jumped REALLY high when he heard the screaming, and I thought he peed himself.

 

[Talking Hands]

All this makes me happy that I am hard of hearing (somewhat deaf). I don't even hear it most of the time. Also glad I use text messaging because no one can hear my conversation as it is not spoken.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

I don't understand why people must have all these conversations in public. Up until 10 years ago we all waited until we got home. And somehow we managed just fine. I use the phone mainly to keep in touch with my kids after school. Being that I don't get home until 5:30, It's nice to know where they are and what they are up to.

 

[Pam]

She then said "Only bleeping retail is hiring right now...You know I hate retail" Needless to say, she won't be getting hired!

Good for you!!

 

[GoodFairies]

I've heard a lot of inappropriate cell conversations. The most recent one that was disgusting was when I (white, female) was waiting on a train platform with quite a few black military people (male & female), and some families (mixed ethnicities) with young children, and along comes this white guy in a shirt & tie running his mouth on his phone. He was a loud talker, like he wanted everyone to hear his conversation about his work, getting drunk, etc. Lots of major profanity even though he was surrounded by people/kids. He then says something to the effect of "being surrounded by a bunch of you-know-whats" and then laughed. Just like the rest of his conversation, he said it so loud that everyone must have heard him. Now it was crystal clear to me what he was talking about, did he think no one did?

 

[missypie]

When we were in line in the morning waiting to get into Disneyland, the lady behind us was telling someone about a relative's surgery and medical problems in excrutiating detail...it was making me ill. (But our place in line was so good I didn't want to give it up. )