Other people's noise

I had a similar experience to you in the hospital Emergency Department recently. A man several seats up from me was watching and listening to a video on his phone and it really affected me so I put my ear plugs in. The TV was also on so it was very unpleasant. I ended up standing in the corridor to get away from him. 

I don’t know what to do in these circumstances.  Hospitals should have signs telling people not to have audio playing or to use earphones. Years ago people would ask someone playing a video or music to turn it off or wear earphones. Nowadays that might cause a fight. 

I can't see busy hospitals having the time or space to have a quiet space and people would abuse that like they used to on quiet carriages on trains where mobile phones were forbidden, they'd come in and take thier calls as it was quieter.

I would probably either end up in a confrontation or leaving without treatment, I'd be less likely to have a meltdown with a confrontation, or it would be a different sort of meltdown. Or I'd end up doing both, as happened when I was at the dentists a couple of years ago, really frightened and on high alert and this bloke started having a go at me for being visably scared as he didn't want his son to be scared of dentists. I never went back to that practice and if the bloke had come after me I probably would of hit him, it would of been an automatic PTSD related response to being under threat.

I can't see busy hospitals having the time or space to have a quiet space and people would abuse that like they used to on quiet carriages on trains where mobile phones were forbidden, they'd come in and take thier calls as it was quieter.

I would probably either end up in a confrontation or leaving without treatment, I'd be less likely to have a meltdown with a confrontation, or it would be a different sort of meltdown. Or I'd end up doing both, as happened when I was at the dentists a couple of years ago, really frightened and on high alert and this bloke started having a go at me for being visably scared as he didn't want his son to be scared of dentists. I never went back to that practice and if the bloke had come after me I probably would of hit him, it would of been an automatic PTSD related response to being under threat.

What is it with men who can see you're busy and sometimes at work, doing a responsible job and think it's OK to try and engage you in conversation and then shout at you when you concentrate on your job or just want to get on with your life?

I hope you get nicer neighbours this time.

 Your experience at the dentist was horrendous and that man sounds like he was a bully.

TheCatWoman said:

I can't see busy hospitals having the time or space to have a quiet space and people would abuse that like they used to on quiet carriages on trains where mobile phones were forbidden, they'd come in and take thier calls as it was quieter

Yes, I think it would be at the bottom of a very long list.

There wouldn’t be a suitable area for a quiet space at the hospital I was at. It was at the minor injuries area of the emergency department and it was like going downstairs into a dungeon with people crammed together. Upstairs in the majors area trolleys were lining the corridor. The last statistics I saw on UK hospitals showed it had the worst waiting times of over 24 hours, and the news reported that an older person died in the corridor while people walked by, so there was no dignity. Given that, there is no way the hospital would allocate further funds for a pager system or staff to fetch people who can’t manage with noisy and crowded waiting areas. 

Yes I get that too sometimes. :( 

Even in my village when I was helping all the school children cross a road as I was a volunteer parent helper, one of the men who live there too tried to talk to me, but I was kind of busy with the road and watching the kids and he started shouting at me in front of everyone for not replying to him.  

It's not nice is it. Thankfully I saw that house is on sale now.

Yeah well the worlds full of nasty human beings and somehow I seem to attract them, I don't know why or how. Were someone else would be asked if they're OK and be treated with sympathy, I get shouted at and have people being aggressive and nasty, especially men.

That's awful, I mean being aggressive to someone who's visably scared! What a nasty human being. I think that would have stuck in his child's mind more so.