Pipe down, already!

[Seanette]

After a day at work, I'm pretty tired and just want to chill on the train with my MP3 player and either a book or some Sudoku puzzles. Lately, I'm finding myself having to endure groups of young women who will board, sit in the middle of the car, and shriek their conversations so loudly that, at the other end of the car, with my MP3 player turned up to near-painful volumes, I can still hear the conversation *drowning out* music. This is even more irritating than the people who yell into their phones so that everyone on the train/bus or in the store knows all the details of their latest fight with their boyfriend, which friend is :censored: ing who, etc.

Has the concept of "indoor voice" become obsolete or something?

[LadyMage]

Apparently. *hugs* Welcome to my idea of personal hell on commute.

I usually get on the train and get greeted by hordes of screaming barely-pubescent girls who are talking about things that make me, a non-PC 21-year-old with a tendency to curse like a sailor, BLUSH. I blush rarely.

Benny Goodman's swing on iPod on full blast + teeny convos = OWWWW

[COMINATCHA]

I was on the train the other day and couldn't help but over-hear this girl telling her friend that she has a sexually transmitted disease, and how gross it was for her. It was so beyond an innapropriate thing to talk about, I was embarassed just to listen to it. I had to scramble for my ipod so I could stop listening to her!

[Barefootgirl]

I join in. Its especially fun when they're talking about something "inappropriate", because believe me, I am older and coarser, and can be MUCH more inappropriate. Occasionally I have had teens trying to be all snotty and lippy and say things lijke "Do you mind? This is supposed to be a private conversation", upon which I tell them to have it in private then :) Once I got a round of applause from an entire train carriage.

[protege]

Has the concept of "indoor voice" become obsolete or something?

I think it has. Some of you might remember me talking about the annoying woman from the gym. She tends to ramble on about things that the rest of us don't care about, and *DO NOT* need to know. You name it, she'll bring it up. Loudly. So loud, that even with my iPod cranked up full blast, I can still hear all the gory details.

...and now for the nasty stuff. One night, she came in, and had the misfortune of using the treadmill next to me. For awhile, she kept her mouth shut, as none of her annoying friends were there. That was about to change--her aerobics class had just let out, and she came over to talk. Yay.

Sooooo for the next half-hour, I got to hear about her husband's various health problems, including his um, problem, "down there." Yes, she actually went there. :eek:

At least she left shortly after that, but not before requiring a full 55-gallon drum of brain bleach. To add further insult to injury, the woman on the machine next to me leaned over and said "did she talk about what I think she did?" When I replied "yes" we nearly hurled!

What the hell is wrong with people? There are just some things that you don't bring up in public. Trust me, civilization will go on without talking about those things. We do *not* need to (or want to) know about some things!

[AFpheonix]

Perhaps finishing school should be reinstated, or maybe there should be a manners section made mandatory in K-12. Yeesh.