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Other people's noise

B

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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  • Thanks everyone.

    I've found reading through this interesting and reassuring in that I didn't do anything to stop the noise and I'm not the only one who would have responded in that way.

    When I'm sure something is wrong I can be assertive but that situation left me confused.

    I thought that if someone is doing it, then perhaps it's socially acceptable now and it's me who is bothered so I should just try to get out of the situation.

    I asked someone who is NT and he said that it would have bothered him too. He was adamant that they were in the wrong and that he would have said something, so another time I might be more sure.

    I don't understand why people behave like this and impose themselves and their noise on others, but then I don't think I will ever understand people.

    People talk out loud to phones nowadays too ie on loud speaker and it makes me feel violent although I obviously don't actually pick up their phone and smash it as I'd like to.

  • in reply to B

    Because they're selfish unthinking, uncaring bottom holes who believe they have rights, but never stop to consider that so do other people or that with rights come responsibilites.

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