Someone tell me what on earth possesses people to...

[EsmeraldaX]

Discuss their personal matters very loudly in public???

On the train this morning, we were seated by a woman who was standing (by choice, there were lots of seats) talking to a guy. She was SO LOUD. Then when the train got louder, she got louder.

I now know more about her and her alcoholic aunt and impoverished mother than I know about my own family! I swear to you, this woman did not stop talking for the entire 20 minute ride and she was still going when we got off the train. The poor guy she was with looked scared to even try and get a word in edgewise...

She just kept going on about her familial problems - mom has no money, aunt's a drunk who lives alone because (and I quote) "No one likes her or would want to live with her because she never shuts up" (Chris, my boyfriend, almost burst out laughing when the lady said that), uncle killed himself and was on drugs, kids aren't speaking to their grandparents etc. , etc. , etc.

Why???

Why on earth would you have a conversation like this on the train at 8 AM? And what really got me was the woman was completely oblivious to the fact that no one else found the subject matter as entertaining as she did.

The guy across from us and kept looking over at us , then at talk a lot lady and rolling his eyes. It was kind of good to know we were not the only ones in shock...

 

[shatzjsl]

Attention. I know a few people like this. They just want attention. Worked, didn't it?

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

Now my question is : Did the guy she was talking to actually know her? Or did she pick out some unsuspecting train passenger to share her family problems with? If it's the latter, then just be glad you weren't sitting with her!

 

[EsmeraldaX]

Originally posted by shatzjsl
Attention. I know a few people like this. They just want attention. Worked, didn't it?

Yup. I can safely say this woman had the full attention of everyone on that train. My boyfriend tried to read his newspaper but said he honestly could not.

Oh no....what if she is on the train going back after work too...

 

[NMAmy]

I hate this. And it seems to be getting worse due to cell phones. People yell loudly into their cell phones about the most private matters. "Well, the doctor says it's probably just a cyst...!" Yikes. Please hush, I don't want to know!

 

[Trish Bessette]

Just put your hand up and say

HEY LADY, TALK TO THE HAND

 

[jipsy]

Why on earth would you have a conversation like this on the train at 8 AM?

The same reason people post the same kind of stuff here for 60,000 people to read.

 

[EsmeraldaX]

We were on another train once with a cell phone person. This woman just kept shouting into her phone :

BILLY IS ALREADY THERE!!!! NO HE IS ALREADY THERE!!!! HE TOOK THE BUS!!!!!!!

She just kept saying this over and over for like 30 minutes. I don't know if the connection was bad, or if the person on the other end could not hear her or what.

All I know is that about 10 minutes into it , everyone on the train started joking asking each other if we knew where Billy was, and how he got there...

As we were getting off , Chris turns to me and says (loudly) So do you think Billy's already there? And I shout , Um, YEAH he took the bus.

The entire train cracked up.

 

[EsmeraldaX]

Originally posted by jipsy
The same reason people post the same kind of stuff here for 60,000 people to read.

Yes, but here you don't have to read something if you don't want to...

And here people are actually asking for advice and looking for answers I think.

There was no escape from the loud talk a lot lady.

 

[barbeml]

Happens all the time.

I was waiting for my car to be serviced at the dealer one day (several of us were in the waiting area) and some guy gets on his cell phone with his Mom and proceeds to describe in great detail his medical symptoms and recent tests.

Let's just say his doctor was obviously a urologist.

TOO much information.

 

[izzy]

My best friend and I used to ride a bus to work each day. Obviously we talked about more personal type things, but we were certainly not loud about it. (And, we never talked about anything that we considered to be TOO personal!) However, we had one lady who would always try to sit near us - not even trying to cover up that she was actively listening to our conversation - and then she'd try to include herself into our conversations, uninvited, I might add. One day my friend and I had had enough of her overly active eavesdropping, so I started talking quite seriously about my brother, who had just been abducted by aliens the week before. I went into depth about my alien abduction, too. My friend talked about her brother who was in prison for being a mass murderer and how things like that ran in her family. We sold these performances so well that we probably deserved Oscars! Suffice it to say, this woman never sat near us again because she though we were cuckoos.

 

[Pin Wizard]

Yup, attention. They want everyone to hear. I for one am one that will get up and change my seat. Ticks me off since I usually seem to be the one there first. Why does this type always flock near me? Kind of like church...the people with a bottle of perfume or cologne always sit near me. I change my seat so I can breathe for the next hour.

In cases like that woman, I REFUSE to give them the attention they are seeking.

 

[HauntedMansionGeek]

Originally posted by EsmeraldaX
We were on another train once with a cell phone person. This woman just kept shouting into her phone :

BILLY IS ALREADY THERE!!!! NO HE IS ALREADY THERE!!!! HE TOOK THE BUS!!!!!!!

She just kept saying this over and over for like 30 minutes. I don't know if the connection was bad, or if the person on the other end could not hear her or what.

All I know is that about 10 minutes into it , everyone on the train started joking asking each other if we knew where Billy was, and how he got there...

As we were getting off , Chris turns to me and says (loudly) So do you think Billy's already there? And I shout , Um, YEAH he took the bus.

The entire train cracked up.

Why do people do this loud stuff you ask? (LOVE the Billy story!)

The value is obvious to me.....
pure entertainment!!

 

[eeyore74]

DH and I went to our little quiet Chinese food place on Saturday. A group of three adults gets seated shortly after us and the one woman was LOUD. It was her, her mom, and some guy who sounded like Christopher Lowell. Anyway, the woman is super loud and her mom says something to her about it, and the woman yells, "I don't have to be quiet here. I can whisper at home if I damn well want to." So I pointed out to DH, loudly, that she's got it backwards - yell at home, whisper at restaurants. She was a bully, too, to her mom. If I'd been the mom, I'd have smacked her.

 

[Beauty]

LOL! The alien story sounds like something my son and I would pull.

We were at Disney and there was a LOUD family of foreigners near us. They were literally yelling in another language so J.C. and I started yelling in our own language too......GIBBERISH!b

 

[Winka]

I agree with one of the above posters-ENTERTAINMENT VALUE.


Public transportation around the world wouldn't be half as fun if everyone was always so prim and proper on that $1.50-$2 ride...it ain't tea time at the Plaza.

 

[Hillbeans]

Originally posted by jipsy
The same reason people post the same kind of stuff here for 60,000 people to read.

Hmm...interesting quote here since I recall one of your last posts you were talking about your, ahem, large endowments....

 

[snoopy]

I used to work with a guy who would discuss the most personal matters with his wife over the phone. Now, if he were in a cube, I guess I can understand that there are going to be times when you are going to have to discuss personal issues while at work, and its cube ettiquette to sort of block out other people's phone conversations. But this guy had an office with a door he could shut. Yet he never did. And he had a VERY loud voice. We knew their entire life story, which was really pretty sad and pathetic, unfortunately. She was a martyr and he was more whipped than any other man I have ever met. A strange couple. I was so glad to leave that job location, mainly because I no longer had to listen to his every day droning on and on about her gynecological issues or the problems he had with his bowels, or him cowtowling to whatever she was telling him to do that day. Sometimes he would even leave her on speaker phone so we could hear HER too. Not nice.