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Other people's noise

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I am presently sitting in a hospital waiting room and am having to listen to a woman playing her phone out loud.

I have moved to the furthest away seat which is around a corner and I can still hear it!

As noise in the form of a TV or radio is often in waiting rooms anyway I am hesitant to ask her to turn it down or off.

It's talking rather than music.

I am super sensitive to noise so perhaps the problem lies with me.

What do you think?

What would you do in these circumstances? 

What is a reasonable response? 

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  • 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. 

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    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.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    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.

  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing

    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.

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