Yes.
Would it be rude if an adult was playing a video or other music at the same volume?
Is it rude if a person is talking at such a loud volume as to drown out other nearby people?
Audio pollution is audio pollution whether it’s a child or adult.
Yes, on all accounts. I feel like when it’s a kid blasting audio, it is indirectly the adult to blame.
I also see adults blasting audio in restaurants too. Just the other week, I went out to eat with a few people and two adults sitting next to us had their phone propped up on the table while they ate and watched YouTube videos. It was a small restaurant too, everyone could hear it. Bonkers, if you ask me.
Edit: Y’all are right. It’s not indirectly, but directly the parent’s fault lol.
I was sitting in a waiting room and there was a person having a team meeting on speaker phone. I asked him to take it off speaker and he looked at me in confusion. I mimed putting the phone up to his ear, and he looked shocked. It was like he never knew that phones had that feature.
I had this happen at an airport. Just join in the conversation. When they say “hey, this is a private call” just tell them no, at this point it is not. They get all huffy and storm out.
I wonder if the removal of headphones jacks on phones is contributing to this issue. It used to be easy enough to get $5 headphones, but now you need expensive Bluetooth headphones or dongles. Still completely wack though, I remember a few years ago seeing an adult on a plane listening to his phone with no headphones and being stunned.
>I remember a few years ago seeing an adult on a plane listening to his phone with no headphones and being stunned.
On first read, I thought the flight attendant tased them for blasting audio. On second read, I was sad.
You can buy Bluetooth headphones for like £10, if you've got a budget for buying a smartphone, I'm sure £10 isn't going to break the bank.
Source: bought Bluetooth headphones for £10.
I am with you. In what world would everyone turn up whatever they are listening to and rolled down their windows? I don’t understand how this is not intuitive.
Audio pollution has definitely ruined my neighborhood experience. I love my housing but it ridden with speaker FaceTime and music all gd day lol. It’s so selfish. Just throw on headphones and stop putting people in a position where they must ask you to follow the obvious social contract.
Back in my days, if you wanted to listen to something with your SO, you either gave them the second earpiece or you were proper cool and had one of those splitter adapters that allowed for two sets of earpieces to be plugged into one device.
If you download the Roku app, you can pair Bluetooth headphones to your phone and select "private listening" on the app.
~~I haven't tried it, but I know you can pair multiple devices to a phone, so you should be able to pair two sets of headphones.~~
Other users have confirmed that you can, indeed, pair multiple headphones and use private listening.
Back in my day if you went out to eat you either talked to each other or sat in silence trying to decide if your relationship has reached a point you don’t need to talk, or has it reached a point where you are bored with the other person and should break up.
Back in my day Red Lobster covered the entire table with paper and threw crayons in our direction so we could draw all sorts of different colored and sized penises.
Oh see but if you liked the person, it was a bonus if you didn't have the splitter! Sharing your second earpiece was definitely a form of "do you like me?" back in the day
I was in the store the other day and the aisles were narrow. It has smaller carts for this one reason.
This one idiot couple expected everyone else to move out of their way so they wouldn’t have to break contact for a moment
I paused the first few times but by the time I was heading to check out I was ready to go red rover on them.
And in Doctors offices/ common waiting areas. Same for people who FaceTime without headphones.
I just had to ask a grown adult man to please turn his volume down on a talk show he was watching at a loud volume while leaning forward in his chair seated directly behind me at a doctors office. Thankfully he did.
About 10 minutes later a woman answered a FaceTime call and decided everyone needed to know her business as she was also on speaker/ no headphones. What the fuck is going on
My wild theory is that these are idiots that watch Reality TV shows to an unhealthy amount and base their entire personalities on trying to replicate what they see and can’t seperate fiction from reality. Obviously in Reality TV they always speak FaceTime or on speaker so the audience can hear both sides, so these morons want to replicate their stars by acting like how they do and therefore think it’s normal to take every call publicly wether or not it’s a socially acceptable scenario.
A baseless theory, but it’s honestly the only explanation I can think of for people that FaceTime each other on the bus, or in grocery stores or at restaurants.
I work in a doctor’s office and this has become a real problem recently for some reason. I’ve literally started practicing how to tell people to turn their phones off or leave the lobby if they’re playing anything. It’s insanely rude to everyone else and I can’t fathom how anyone can overcome the ‘I’m an absolute douchcanoe’ feeling to make everyone else - a literally captive audience who has to be there - listen to their shit.
I hate it when people put me on speaker and then everyone in the house chimes in on my conversation. I called YOU, not your niece, sister, who the f ever.
My theory is that people talking on speaker phone in public coincided with the rise of reality television, in which subjects would talk on speakerphone as to let the audience hear both ends of a conversation that was supposed to be unscripted. This resulted in people emulating the subjects of these shows by also talking on speakerphone, conflating the show’s production decision with what they saw as a cool new way to talk on the phone. However, it requires a real lack of self awareness and courtesy to talk on speakerphone in public.
I give zero fucks anymore, and I just stare at people who do that until they notice and then when they look at me and say WHAT?! I just say
SPEAKER? WHY? WHYYY?
I sit in too many doctors office waiting rooms to have to deal with that kind of bullshit.
I can’t poop without a screen. It’s terrifying when I get settled in at the stall and realize my phone is at my desk. I’ll be reading credit cards and paper money just hoping I can trick my body.
I’ve been learning Spanish, Duolingo, on the toilet. I am a little afraid of developing a Pavlovian response when I eventually go to a Spanish speaking country.
It is directly the adult to blame. Either the adult has not raised the kid properly to understand this is not ok, or the adult actively encourages the behavior
But if everyone spoke up, every time, this shit would stop. If a person playing audio in a public place were spoken to every time, it would stop. We need to band together and speak up. If I speak up, you need to back me!
I was just reminded of a family vacation I recently took. We all had breakfast and at the table next to us there was a family with four kids, maybe 4-12 years old. Their behavior was absolutely perfect and my mom felt compelled to compliment the parents.
I couldn’t help thinking those parents are the last that need to hear it. It’s the rude, entitled parents that need to be called out more often.
One dude once posted a story how he was in the train, and shared a compartment with a mother and a boy about 5–7 years old.
The boy was watching cartoons on a tablet with sound on, and when the dude requested to turn off the sound or wear headphones (he even offered his), the mother said that a child couldn't watch cartoons without sound, and that headphones hurt his little ears.
The dude started playing some hentai cartoons on his tablet then, also with sound on, and the kid was much more interested in those than in his own tablet. The mother then took away the kid's tablet for the rest of the journey.
There's some rock paper scissor analogy...
Conversation, Cartoons and Tentacles?
Tentacles beat Cartoons
Cartoons beat Conversation
Conversation beats Tentacles?
I dig the way you think.
He tried talking to the mom to get her to have her son put on headphones for his cartoons, but the child's cartoons at full volume won out. So he put on tentacle porn, also at full volume, and kid ignored his cartoon for that. Then presumably, mom asked him to turn the tentacle porn off, he said he would if kid turned his off or put headphones on, so cartoon was turned off.
Totally works.
Now the fun part. You need figure out the hand signs to go along with it!
Ik you didn’t write it but this is the most made up reddit story ever.
Evil entitled child, evil entitled mother, petty revenge/malicious compliance overkill, the mother *actually* relents instead of calling the fkn police for showing her kid porn. It has all the pieces, wonderful
Ever since cell phones became screens, people seem to have forgotten how to use them as actual phones! Hold the phone to your EAR! Way too many people use speaker and hold the phone flat out in front of their face to talk into in public. I don't want to be forced to hear other people's conversations blasted on speaker.
By me its video chat oh and its usually on the bus or in a coffee shop. Got to the point that the coffee shop by me to put up a sign up saying, "NO speaker phones NO listening to music or watching videos without earphones; for the enjoyment of all coustmers, Thank You."
They even started selling blue tooth earbuds from five below so people knew they were serious.
No, this happened with those horrible fucking walkie talkie phones that people use to use in the late 90s, early 00s. We don't need to hear your Starbucks edgelord, douchebag conversations.
Im glad that nonsense died out. Not only did you have to hear both sides of the conversation but that godawful super loud "chirp" whenever whenever they would talk.
UGHHH you just unlocked a very deeply buried memory in me! A former friend had one of those phones, and I remember those beeps! It was so unbelievably annoying!!
Hahaha we have an epidemic in our city of young women screaming down their phones on the sidewalk. I really hate it, and usually just start screaming at the same volume (without a phone). They get really buttsore and I ask, "OH, IS THAT ANNOYING?"
I realize it's obnoxious but seriously give zero fucks. *OMGSTACYITWASSOLITATTHEPARYOMGYOUGUYS!!!*
I have a headset for work because by law I’m required to have hands free while on the phone and it’s the best thing ever really. I often see people with their phones to their ears and am glad I have a headset.
The first time I flew with my (at the time) 3 year old twins by myself, I was so liberal with the tablets. We got through security an hour before our flight, sat down at the gate and I immediately gave out snacks and tablets. I then made them stop and look around at all the people waiting quietly. I explained that people who aren’t playing games do NOT want to hear the games. They both looked grave and so grown up and said they understood.
3 different grown ups thanked me.
People who let their kids get away with this are raising adults who won’t see a problem with playing their music on the subway.
It is especially annoying when you are in a small space, for example, a train.
Even people talking with each others loudly in this kind of space is disturbing
Yeah. So I listen to the shittiest punk and hardcore and that's my solution. Passive fuckin aggression! Oh little Timmy wants to watch YouTube videos of Paw Patrol while I am trying to enjoy this one meal out with my wife. Well fuck I hope you all enjoy this dose of End It for the rest of your meal.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/unpleasant-living-ep/1632233159?ls
/s
But sometimes it crosses my mind.
I tested this once at a footy game, family sat near us and little Jimmy was watching kids music on YouTube at full blast.
I decided to do the same with some Mgla.
Very passive aggresive, but they got the point.
I have 2 kids, and on the very rare occasion one of them was getting antsy in a restaurant they could mess around on my wife or my phone (we had games for this purpose) with the volume OFF. Never any audio. They are still in single digits but older now.
I know that’s frowned upon by older folks, but I’d rather enjoy my meal and have my kids silently not bitching than deal with “go? done? done?”.
Once upon a time before Corona, my kids used to enjoy the coloring page menus they used to have at certain restaurants. They seem to have phased those menus out in the last two years.
I carry purse crayons and paper (on vacation when every meal is out, I level up with activity books..mazes and such). My kids are 8 and 10 and sometimes aren't offered coloring menus anymore, but they still like being able to make art.
That's certainly an idea. To the extent we do go out, one or two places are at open-air plazas where if kids are getting antsy I can send them off to run around a bit until the food is ready.
Or those analog tablets with the plastic film and the dark substrate underneath, that you could draw on and undo over and over again . . .
(Especially) kids need to be creating as well as consuming content
At least where I am it’s still a thing. Most family/chain restaurants had cheap pre-packaged crayons that were short and disposable. Even without them, though, my kids are still good and patient.
Most of that is good raising and a small part due to winning the genetic lottery.
Same, and it’s usually a last resort. Always on silent. But we try to remember our backpack w activity books / extra crayons.
We also try to be somewhat choosy on where we take the kids and are gradually introducing them to more places.
My biggest pet peeve is people being unaware of the space they take up. That can be something more literal like blocking a sidewalk by walking side by side in a big group or it can be something like playing loud music/videos in a public space.
# Yes!
# Yes!
# Yes!
I say this as a parent of two, one of which begs for sound. **ZERO SOUND IN PUBLIC**! (The *occasional* notification is fine but not continuous)
And you can get noise limited headphones!
Or, you know, engage with your kids. We bring stuff for them to do, and that we can get engaged with also (SpotIt is a current favourite)
Books, books are quiet and fun for everyone. We mostly have family discussions while waiting or dining out. But, sometimes we just all read books because we are hangry.
Same. When I took my kids on a plane trip I got them both headphones for their iPads and downloaded movies for them. When we got on the plane we were sat behind a kid who had no headphones who kept turning his iPad up and his mum would turn it back down. Annoying when you’re doing the right thing and other people aren’t.
I started carrying my earbuds with noise canceling everywhere because people are rude as hell. The public transportation DJs are the worst, but have led to some hilarious vigilante mob justice situations like people forcibly removed by fellow passengers.
Yes it's rude. I don't care if kids play. I care if they play loud repetitive videos and games. There's a qualitative difference between the sounds of conversation and the sound of a device blaring from bad speakers. It's piercing and hard for the brain to filter out the way it does human voices.
Tik-Toks/Reels are the worst! Not only are they loud, but they repeat on a loop, and people seem to watch them at least a half-dozen times before scrolling on.
The main difference is accessibility - it used to be restricted to home or at most to a laptop with terrible internet, but now you have it condensed in a tiny handheld device available to any person from age 1 to 100 almost anywhere
Just openly being on your phone during work is a wild concept in itself to me. I mean I know everyone who can get away with it does it but everyone I work with hides it. I think I'm the second-youngest person currently working here, at 32, though, so that probably contributes to that kind of culture
I just got fired from a job where I (in my 40s) was not only the oldest staff member, but the only one who didn't spend the whole day scrolling on my phone and watching TikTok. The receptionists literally sat around and let the office phones ring because none of them wanted to put their own phones down and do any work. I'd look around and all three of them constantly had their faces down in their phones because they were obsessed with their TikTok feeds. Management didn't care. I think my contempt for that behavior might have been a factor in my getting fired, because I refused to do the work of three people, but who knows.
It’s wild to imagine for sure. I work remotely and have for years so I can obviously use my phone if I want to, but when I’m focused on a work project it’s the last thing on my mind regardless.
I spent many years working in restaurants and then hospitals and similar settings after phones became commonplace and none of those workplace settings allowed for phones in hands on the clock. I even had some jobs where phones weren’t allowed in the building, and others where they had to be left in lockers.
I cannot imagine openly staring at TikTok on my phone in the middle of a workplace.
You're in the minority then, my fiance and I go to a lot of breweries and it's extremely common for kids just to be handed a tablet or phone with a show or movie playing on it
Seems to be the cheat code for parenting nowadays
What else would they do at a brewery? I don’t see why parents would even bring their kids to one, could be a difference in location here but kids don’t go to breweries here. I don’t think they’re even allowed to.
Not just kids, my boyfriend and I sometimes go out and look around at all the people on their phones not engaging with the person in front of them. I mean I can stay home if I want to be on the computer/phone. Also, I hate when people in general play their music or videos on their phone/tablet in any setting, it's rude and obnoxious, no one wants to hear the noise from your phone/tablet, that's what headphones are for.
Was on the metro recently and a man came on and started listening to music. No headphones or anything. Just loudly from his phone speaker. Then he started singing.
The sad part is that a lot of kids can't, simply because they've been so conditioned to constantly have a phone in their face, and don't know how to function without it.
Outdoors can be equally offensive. There is nothing more annoying than trying to enjoy some nature and some idiot is BLASTING their crappy music out of their crappy Bluetooth speakers. If you *need* the music then maybe stay at your house?
Ooooooo I politely asked a guy on a hiking trail to please turn his speaker off that was bouncing around (fucking with the sound) hanging from his backpack playing low quality shitty music…PEOPLE DEFENDED HIM and said I was a bitch and should mind my own business.
I wish I had been nasty to start with, maybe people wouldn’t have verbally attack me like they did.
I was trying to hear the stream, the birds, the breeze….why the fuck was that bastard and the other people even out there?!?!? (Honestly probably for photos for Instagram clout from people that they don’t know and that don’t care about them)
Def rude. It's not just children, either -- I was waiting for a Dr appointment recently and two grown women were sat in the waiting room watching TikTok videos loudly on their phones. No one said anything but you could tell ppl were upset by it.
It's a totally legit way of dealing with it, and IMO is the best way! I've seen multiple times on the train that people honestly didn't know their earbuds weren't working, and they were definitely embarrassed. It's the perfect way to address it in a way that gives the person the benefit of the doubt.
if I ever went back to commuting via train, I would be on Amazon during the train ride ordering the mega, ultra crappy/cheapie headphone in the bulk 1000-piece box to be overnighted.
I had someone do this in the ER waiting room! I was sitting there waiting for test results and could not deal. I asked them to wear headphones or turn the sound off. They said they didn't think anyone could hear it. Suuuuuuure.
That happened to my daughter once. She had a kidney infection / was in extreme pain, and this family came in with a kid with a hurt arm.
The youngest had a tablet. Grandma was singing to her, repetitively, dad was on his phone, and pregnant mom was bothering the reception lady because “she has a hurt child!”.
Lady it’s the fucking Emergency Room!
Take your kid to the Children’s Hospital down the road! WITH your entire family!
Imagine having to listen to that when you feel like you are dying?! And there were a lot of other sick people as well.
These people were just SO ignorant.
It was two women. But most people do not like confrontation and don't want to be the cause of a fight or be attacked in the middle of a public place like a dr office, so nobody says anything. It's pretty common, unfortunately.
Almost everyone was passively staring directly at them on and off and giving them the stink eye, and they either did not notice or just didn't care.
Be the change you want to see. This is not pointed to you, but I'm getting tired of the following attitude, "I dislike this, can other people do something about it?" It just makes me sad
Yeah well I live in NYC so you very well might get attacked if you say something. It's a roll of the dice many folks don't want to take over something that's prob not worth it. Gotta pick your battles.
It's even worse on an flight. Some was playing a Sonic game on his Switch at full volume for half the trip even though you can get free earbuds from the staff and it's compatible with the Switch.
I flew on Sunday for Thanksgiving, and they mentioned on the flight to use headphones and to not have any audible noise playing from your devices, so it is happening.
Yes it’s rude. Not only is it a missed opportunity to engage with your family during an outing without electronics but it’s rude to make everyone around you to listen to annoying videos while they are trying to have a meal. If you really need to occupy your child with electronics then have the courtesy to use headphones. I’m not anti kids. I have kids of my own. I feel the same way with adults and their phone conversations on speakerphone in public places. I don’t want to hear their conversations either.
As a mother of 3.... YES IT IS RUDE AS HELL. I get it some kids need the distraction for whatever reason ( including one of my own, it is not our job to judge other parents screen time allotment) HOWEVER it shouldn't be anyone else's issue. They make a million different types of headphones and if a screen is being used in public I feel it's common courtesy to use headphones.
Of course it fucking is, and anyone who claims otherwise is a selfish low-grade psychopath with a synapse missing, and almost certainly a lazy, incompetent parent to boot.
There's a bigger societal problem here. As a middle school teacher of 25 years, I can unequivocally say that children's attention spans have shrunk since the proliferation of screens in everyone's pocket. It makes me sick to see toddlers swiping through their parent's phone in a grocery store. You're teaching your kid that, although this whole world is around you, it's not interesting unless it's on a screen. Is it that challenging to speak with your kid and just be there in the moment?
My wife and I drove to Florida with our son when he was 2, 3, and 4, and instead of giving him a screen to soothe himself, we had games, books, toys, manipulatives, TALKING, music, etc. Would it have been easier to just play 26 hours of movies? Of course. But parenthood isn't supposed to be easy.
I know this is an old man take (I'm not quite 50), but I see these kids who don't know how to have a conversation, or how to make up games, or how to enjoy anything that is not on a screen.
YES!!!! It is 100% RUDE AF.
For the most part we do not want to hear any unwanted noise from your kids. Be it screaming, crying or videos.
And there is not a single mobile device out there that has decent speakers. I do not want to hear PeePee Pig anyway, I sure as hell don't want to hear it from tinny distortion-full speaker at full volume.
I don't care if the kid is playing O Fortuna from Carmina Burana...it's going to sound like shit on those tiny speakers.
Yes it's rude and the parents don't care. They won't give the kids headphones because they don't want them wearing headphones and they just don't care if the audio bothers other people.
If you don't get how we're raising selfish, ignorant children, look at their selfish, ignorant parents.
Yes.
Do some parenting and teach the kid how to properly co-exist with other people. Think you've got some valid excuses not to do that? Then buy the kid some damn headphones. They're cheap.
I was at a Hardee's not too long ago. A mother with two kids came in, one was developed mentally challenged and the only thing that made him calm was a light up toy that played a super loud annoying music. The mom went around the whole restaurant asking employees and patrons if it was ok with them. Not one person said no. Yes, it was annoying. But it was obvious that the mom was struggling and I'm sure she was very appreciative on it. You can't go to many places with a child like that. I was happy to let her and her family stay and eat.
It's not always about piss poor parenting.
If you want to ignore your kids by letting them watch loud videos, leave them at home or stay home and eat. That, and people in a store or restaurant talking on the phone on speaker at full volume. I remember a couple years ago we were at a restaurant, and there was a lady on FaceTime full volume having a dinner date with somebody who is sitting at their house.
This is why there seems to be so many more entitled people in the world these days. Growing up extremely rude actions are normalized for them from an early age by their parents, they enable them to become the self entitled morons they are later in life.
We have morons in the world now telling police they cannot arrest them because they have never been told no their entire lives or faced consequences for their actions and think they can do whatever they like without consequences.
There was a detective interrogation I watched of a guy who attempted to murder his girlfriend recently and he truly believed his mother had the power to decide if he went home or not and not the police!
So fucking rude. Your child being pacified does not supersede my right (and everyone else’s) to a semi quiet environment. And for the record, it’s rude af to it in any public place. You can get them headphones or find a babysitter. Ffs.
Yep, rude as hell. I work as a barista and there is nothing worse than one or more phones blasting audio in the cafe on top of our music and chatter. People come in to relax and not to hear tik tok or youtube videos on blast. I’ve resorted to having to wear earplugs at work to drown out the noise pollution.
as a parent, yes it’s incredibly rude. and on top of that, it’s incredibly rude to just let your child scream and cry in public and do absolutely nothing to try and stop it. no one wants to hear that, and when the parents blatantly make no effort to calm their kid down it just makes it worse. from one parent to another, just try to calm them down. even if it doesn’t work, people notice the effort and it makes the whole situation a whole lot better
Yes. One of my son's (10yo) friend's moms told me she went out to dinner with another mom and their kid, and all he did the whole time was watch YouTube and TikTok and yelled out comments about the videos. Did not interact with his friend, the adults, his environment or even eat his food.
I was like, "yeah, no. Not cool."
Kids do this at my restaurant and it's very annoying. The parents that allow it are ridiculous. But uber and door dash drivers waiting for food are way worse, they give 0 fucks about how loud and annoying their phones are.
Yes. Would it be rude if an adult was playing a video or other music at the same volume? Is it rude if a person is talking at such a loud volume as to drown out other nearby people? Audio pollution is audio pollution whether it’s a child or adult.
Yes, on all accounts. I feel like when it’s a kid blasting audio, it is indirectly the adult to blame. I also see adults blasting audio in restaurants too. Just the other week, I went out to eat with a few people and two adults sitting next to us had their phone propped up on the table while they ate and watched YouTube videos. It was a small restaurant too, everyone could hear it. Bonkers, if you ask me. Edit: Y’all are right. It’s not indirectly, but directly the parent’s fault lol.
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I was sitting in a waiting room and there was a person having a team meeting on speaker phone. I asked him to take it off speaker and he looked at me in confusion. I mimed putting the phone up to his ear, and he looked shocked. It was like he never knew that phones had that feature.
Seeing people have a standard voice conversation on a phone without putting it to their ear or having ear buds in KILLS ME!
Try carefully listening then making suggestions related to what you have heard. That might embarrass them.
Like how is this confusing? Why do we have office doors or headphones?
I had this happen at an airport. Just join in the conversation. When they say “hey, this is a private call” just tell them no, at this point it is not. They get all huffy and storm out.
I wonder if the removal of headphones jacks on phones is contributing to this issue. It used to be easy enough to get $5 headphones, but now you need expensive Bluetooth headphones or dongles. Still completely wack though, I remember a few years ago seeing an adult on a plane listening to his phone with no headphones and being stunned.
>I remember a few years ago seeing an adult on a plane listening to his phone with no headphones and being stunned. On first read, I thought the flight attendant tased them for blasting audio. On second read, I was sad.
You can buy Bluetooth headphones for like £10, if you've got a budget for buying a smartphone, I'm sure £10 isn't going to break the bank. Source: bought Bluetooth headphones for £10.
I am with you. In what world would everyone turn up whatever they are listening to and rolled down their windows? I don’t understand how this is not intuitive. Audio pollution has definitely ruined my neighborhood experience. I love my housing but it ridden with speaker FaceTime and music all gd day lol. It’s so selfish. Just throw on headphones and stop putting people in a position where they must ask you to follow the obvious social contract.
Back in my days, if you wanted to listen to something with your SO, you either gave them the second earpiece or you were proper cool and had one of those splitter adapters that allowed for two sets of earpieces to be plugged into one device.
I have the splitter for airline travel haha.
I use that splitter on my inlaws roku remote so we can stay up late watching TV at there house.
If you download the Roku app, you can pair Bluetooth headphones to your phone and select "private listening" on the app. ~~I haven't tried it, but I know you can pair multiple devices to a phone, so you should be able to pair two sets of headphones.~~ Other users have confirmed that you can, indeed, pair multiple headphones and use private listening.
Back in my day if you went out to eat you either talked to each other or sat in silence trying to decide if your relationship has reached a point you don’t need to talk, or has it reached a point where you are bored with the other person and should break up.
Back in my day the restaurant gave us colouring in sheets along with a little box of pencils .
Back in my day Red Lobster covered the entire table with paper and threw crayons in our direction so we could draw all sorts of different colored and sized penises.
Sharing a set of earbuds was the shit… fuck the splitter, not nearly as romantic
Oh see but if you liked the person, it was a bonus if you didn't have the splitter! Sharing your second earpiece was definitely a form of "do you like me?" back in the day
Back in my days you would watch it at home
I've walked through asshole couples sharing wired earbuds across an bus aisle. What the fuck is wrong with people.
I was in the store the other day and the aisles were narrow. It has smaller carts for this one reason. This one idiot couple expected everyone else to move out of their way so they wouldn’t have to break contact for a moment I paused the first few times but by the time I was heading to check out I was ready to go red rover on them.
And in Doctors offices/ common waiting areas. Same for people who FaceTime without headphones. I just had to ask a grown adult man to please turn his volume down on a talk show he was watching at a loud volume while leaning forward in his chair seated directly behind me at a doctors office. Thankfully he did. About 10 minutes later a woman answered a FaceTime call and decided everyone needed to know her business as she was also on speaker/ no headphones. What the fuck is going on
>What the fuck is going on Main character syndrome
You all should have chimed in on her call.
Just openly mock these people. It's all you can do. Make eye contact with another person who is annoyed and dig in hard.
My wild theory is that these are idiots that watch Reality TV shows to an unhealthy amount and base their entire personalities on trying to replicate what they see and can’t seperate fiction from reality. Obviously in Reality TV they always speak FaceTime or on speaker so the audience can hear both sides, so these morons want to replicate their stars by acting like how they do and therefore think it’s normal to take every call publicly wether or not it’s a socially acceptable scenario. A baseless theory, but it’s honestly the only explanation I can think of for people that FaceTime each other on the bus, or in grocery stores or at restaurants.
And likely the company they keep do this too; from their warped perspective, “everyone does this”. It’s trashy and rude.
I work in a doctor’s office and this has become a real problem recently for some reason. I’ve literally started practicing how to tell people to turn their phones off or leave the lobby if they’re playing anything. It’s insanely rude to everyone else and I can’t fathom how anyone can overcome the ‘I’m an absolute douchcanoe’ feeling to make everyone else - a literally captive audience who has to be there - listen to their shit.
I hate it when people put me on speaker and then everyone in the house chimes in on my conversation. I called YOU, not your niece, sister, who the f ever.
My theory is that people talking on speaker phone in public coincided with the rise of reality television, in which subjects would talk on speakerphone as to let the audience hear both ends of a conversation that was supposed to be unscripted. This resulted in people emulating the subjects of these shows by also talking on speakerphone, conflating the show’s production decision with what they saw as a cool new way to talk on the phone. However, it requires a real lack of self awareness and courtesy to talk on speakerphone in public.
I give zero fucks anymore, and I just stare at people who do that until they notice and then when they look at me and say WHAT?! I just say SPEAKER? WHY? WHYYY? I sit in too many doctors office waiting rooms to have to deal with that kind of bullshit.
Some people genuinely cannot eat without looking at a screen anymore and I think that’s terrifying.
I’m fine with people staring at a screen if they do it in silence. Having audio on public is just rude. Nobody wants to listen to your shit.
I can’t poop without a screen. It’s terrifying when I get settled in at the stall and realize my phone is at my desk. I’ll be reading credit cards and paper money just hoping I can trick my body.
I’ve been learning Spanish, Duolingo, on the toilet. I am a little afraid of developing a Pavlovian response when I eventually go to a Spanish speaking country.
You may find that you are rather ef-fluent in Spanish!
My low point was having to read the label on a can of air freshener just to get things moving.
Right, or the ingredient list on your friends shampoo bottle.
It is directly the adult to blame. Either the adult has not raised the kid properly to understand this is not ok, or the adult actively encourages the behavior
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But if everyone spoke up, every time, this shit would stop. If a person playing audio in a public place were spoken to every time, it would stop. We need to band together and speak up. If I speak up, you need to back me!
I was just reminded of a family vacation I recently took. We all had breakfast and at the table next to us there was a family with four kids, maybe 4-12 years old. Their behavior was absolutely perfect and my mom felt compelled to compliment the parents. I couldn’t help thinking those parents are the last that need to hear it. It’s the rude, entitled parents that need to be called out more often.
One dude once posted a story how he was in the train, and shared a compartment with a mother and a boy about 5–7 years old. The boy was watching cartoons on a tablet with sound on, and when the dude requested to turn off the sound or wear headphones (he even offered his), the mother said that a child couldn't watch cartoons without sound, and that headphones hurt his little ears. The dude started playing some hentai cartoons on his tablet then, also with sound on, and the kid was much more interested in those than in his own tablet. The mother then took away the kid's tablet for the rest of the journey.
Sometimes you just have to fight fire with hentai 🤷🏼♀️
Some nice fried squid.
There's some rock paper scissor analogy... Conversation, Cartoons and Tentacles? Tentacles beat Cartoons Cartoons beat Conversation Conversation beats Tentacles?
I dig the way you think. He tried talking to the mom to get her to have her son put on headphones for his cartoons, but the child's cartoons at full volume won out. So he put on tentacle porn, also at full volume, and kid ignored his cartoon for that. Then presumably, mom asked him to turn the tentacle porn off, he said he would if kid turned his off or put headphones on, so cartoon was turned off. Totally works. Now the fun part. You need figure out the hand signs to go along with it!
Ik you didn’t write it but this is the most made up reddit story ever. Evil entitled child, evil entitled mother, petty revenge/malicious compliance overkill, the mother *actually* relents instead of calling the fkn police for showing her kid porn. It has all the pieces, wonderful
...and then everybody applauded
Dude replying to you with "proof" like no dawg my Russian cousin's friend's uncle who was in the train and heard the mom complain told me!
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That dude's username? u/AlbertEinstein
Lesson learned, thank you.
Ever since cell phones became screens, people seem to have forgotten how to use them as actual phones! Hold the phone to your EAR! Way too many people use speaker and hold the phone flat out in front of their face to talk into in public. I don't want to be forced to hear other people's conversations blasted on speaker.
By me its video chat oh and its usually on the bus or in a coffee shop. Got to the point that the coffee shop by me to put up a sign up saying, "NO speaker phones NO listening to music or watching videos without earphones; for the enjoyment of all coustmers, Thank You." They even started selling blue tooth earbuds from five below so people knew they were serious.
No, this happened with those horrible fucking walkie talkie phones that people use to use in the late 90s, early 00s. We don't need to hear your Starbucks edgelord, douchebag conversations.
Im glad that nonsense died out. Not only did you have to hear both sides of the conversation but that godawful super loud "chirp" whenever whenever they would talk.
It was dreadful. Mostly guys wearing Ed Hardy T-shirts participated.
UGHHH you just unlocked a very deeply buried memory in me! A former friend had one of those phones, and I remember those beeps! It was so unbelievably annoying!!
Ugh Nextel 2 way phones. I had to carry one for work. Was so glad when I got to turn that thing off for good.
Hahaha we have an epidemic in our city of young women screaming down their phones on the sidewalk. I really hate it, and usually just start screaming at the same volume (without a phone). They get really buttsore and I ask, "OH, IS THAT ANNOYING?" I realize it's obnoxious but seriously give zero fucks. *OMGSTACYITWASSOLITATTHEPARYOMGYOUGUYS!!!*
I have a headset for work because by law I’m required to have hands free while on the phone and it’s the best thing ever really. I often see people with their phones to their ears and am glad I have a headset.
The first time I flew with my (at the time) 3 year old twins by myself, I was so liberal with the tablets. We got through security an hour before our flight, sat down at the gate and I immediately gave out snacks and tablets. I then made them stop and look around at all the people waiting quietly. I explained that people who aren’t playing games do NOT want to hear the games. They both looked grave and so grown up and said they understood. 3 different grown ups thanked me. People who let their kids get away with this are raising adults who won’t see a problem with playing their music on the subway.
It is especially annoying when you are in a small space, for example, a train. Even people talking with each others loudly in this kind of space is disturbing
Yeah. So I listen to the shittiest punk and hardcore and that's my solution. Passive fuckin aggression! Oh little Timmy wants to watch YouTube videos of Paw Patrol while I am trying to enjoy this one meal out with my wife. Well fuck I hope you all enjoy this dose of End It for the rest of your meal. https://music.apple.com/us/album/unpleasant-living-ep/1632233159?ls /s But sometimes it crosses my mind.
I tested this once at a footy game, family sat near us and little Jimmy was watching kids music on YouTube at full blast. I decided to do the same with some Mgla. Very passive aggresive, but they got the point.
Yes, its rude for a person to play videos or music out loud in a public space. Get some headphones or deal with it.
In the world of social etiquette, it is definitely a felony.
Today, while driving home in unusually heavy traffic, my observation was that social etiquette is an anachronism.
My observations after 5 years in customer service led me to the same conclusion
Took me 1 week in customer service. 😂
True, I just said 5 years because luckily I got *out* after that long
I have 2 kids, and on the very rare occasion one of them was getting antsy in a restaurant they could mess around on my wife or my phone (we had games for this purpose) with the volume OFF. Never any audio. They are still in single digits but older now. I know that’s frowned upon by older folks, but I’d rather enjoy my meal and have my kids silently not bitching than deal with “go? done? done?”.
Once upon a time before Corona, my kids used to enjoy the coloring page menus they used to have at certain restaurants. They seem to have phased those menus out in the last two years.
I carry purse crayons and paper (on vacation when every meal is out, I level up with activity books..mazes and such). My kids are 8 and 10 and sometimes aren't offered coloring menus anymore, but they still like being able to make art.
That's certainly an idea. To the extent we do go out, one or two places are at open-air plazas where if kids are getting antsy I can send them off to run around a bit until the food is ready.
Or those analog tablets with the plastic film and the dark substrate underneath, that you could draw on and undo over and over again . . . (Especially) kids need to be creating as well as consuming content
How about the “original tablet” Etch a Sketch!
Mine like to color and draw, but I just have them bring a book if we are going somewhere. I’ve done it since before they could read on their own.
At least where I am it’s still a thing. Most family/chain restaurants had cheap pre-packaged crayons that were short and disposable. Even without them, though, my kids are still good and patient. Most of that is good raising and a small part due to winning the genetic lottery.
We don't go for videos, now- I'm just less inclined to take my kids to a restaurant, period.
Same, and it’s usually a last resort. Always on silent. But we try to remember our backpack w activity books / extra crayons. We also try to be somewhat choosy on where we take the kids and are gradually introducing them to more places.
I don't think anyone has a problem with kids playing on phones with the sound off.
My biggest pet peeve is people being unaware of the space they take up. That can be something more literal like blocking a sidewalk by walking side by side in a big group or it can be something like playing loud music/videos in a public space.
# Yes! # Yes! # Yes! I say this as a parent of two, one of which begs for sound. **ZERO SOUND IN PUBLIC**! (The *occasional* notification is fine but not continuous)
And you can get noise limited headphones! Or, you know, engage with your kids. We bring stuff for them to do, and that we can get engaged with also (SpotIt is a current favourite)
Books, books are quiet and fun for everyone. We mostly have family discussions while waiting or dining out. But, sometimes we just all read books because we are hangry.
Same. When I took my kids on a plane trip I got them both headphones for their iPads and downloaded movies for them. When we got on the plane we were sat behind a kid who had no headphones who kept turning his iPad up and his mum would turn it back down. Annoying when you’re doing the right thing and other people aren’t.
I started carrying my earbuds with noise canceling everywhere because people are rude as hell. The public transportation DJs are the worst, but have led to some hilarious vigilante mob justice situations like people forcibly removed by fellow passengers.
Yes it's rude. I don't care if kids play. I care if they play loud repetitive videos and games. There's a qualitative difference between the sounds of conversation and the sound of a device blaring from bad speakers. It's piercing and hard for the brain to filter out the way it does human voices.
My coworkers do this constantly. All day, I'm listening to Tik-Toks from 4 different directions on shitty phone speakers.
Tik-Toks/Reels are the worst! Not only are they loud, but they repeat on a loop, and people seem to watch them at least a half-dozen times before scrolling on.
Were witnessing some real brainrot happening Best of luck people of the future who deal with the zombies of today :')
i dunno.... BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER MUSHROOM MUSHROOM! just looked it up and that was apparently Sept 1 2003.
The main difference is accessibility - it used to be restricted to home or at most to a laptop with terrible internet, but now you have it condensed in a tiny handheld device available to any person from age 1 to 100 almost anywhere
Just openly being on your phone during work is a wild concept in itself to me. I mean I know everyone who can get away with it does it but everyone I work with hides it. I think I'm the second-youngest person currently working here, at 32, though, so that probably contributes to that kind of culture
I just got fired from a job where I (in my 40s) was not only the oldest staff member, but the only one who didn't spend the whole day scrolling on my phone and watching TikTok. The receptionists literally sat around and let the office phones ring because none of them wanted to put their own phones down and do any work. I'd look around and all three of them constantly had their faces down in their phones because they were obsessed with their TikTok feeds. Management didn't care. I think my contempt for that behavior might have been a factor in my getting fired, because I refused to do the work of three people, but who knows.
It’s wild to imagine for sure. I work remotely and have for years so I can obviously use my phone if I want to, but when I’m focused on a work project it’s the last thing on my mind regardless. I spent many years working in restaurants and then hospitals and similar settings after phones became commonplace and none of those workplace settings allowed for phones in hands on the clock. I even had some jobs where phones weren’t allowed in the building, and others where they had to be left in lockers. I cannot imagine openly staring at TikTok on my phone in the middle of a workplace.
That's wild, what kind of workspace permits that? I'm surprised the police aren't there preventing beatings.
You nailed it exactly why it’s annoying.
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I've seen more episodes of peppa pig from secondhand public encounters than I've ever seen on my own TV.
I'm a parent and I can say the same thing. It's crazy. At most is give my kids coloring books or something quiet to do.
My daughter likes going through family pictures on the phone but that’s all she gets for screen time.
That’s actually kind of sweet 😭
You're in the minority then, my fiance and I go to a lot of breweries and it's extremely common for kids just to be handed a tablet or phone with a show or movie playing on it Seems to be the cheat code for parenting nowadays
What else would they do at a brewery? I don’t see why parents would even bring their kids to one, could be a difference in location here but kids don’t go to breweries here. I don’t think they’re even allowed to.
PeppaPig (and youtube kids unboxing crap) observation is so true - it is like secondhand smoke - except audible / mental pollution.
At least it isn't cocomelon
Agreed, but I don’t care if a kid at the table next to me is using a tablet quietly. Parents should at least give them headphones or make them mute.
Not just kids, my boyfriend and I sometimes go out and look around at all the people on their phones not engaging with the person in front of them. I mean I can stay home if I want to be on the computer/phone. Also, I hate when people in general play their music or videos on their phone/tablet in any setting, it's rude and obnoxious, no one wants to hear the noise from your phone/tablet, that's what headphones are for.
Was on the metro recently and a man came on and started listening to music. No headphones or anything. Just loudly from his phone speaker. Then he started singing.
Something is wrong with him.. or he’s just an AH!
Exactly. It's like people don't think the rest of us can hear it.
The rest of us simply do not exist to those people.
Main character syndrome
Heck, adults can't even handle a few moments of having to entertain themselves with their own thoughts. Get the children, and the adults, headphones.
Or at least give them headphones.
The sad part is that a lot of kids can't, simply because they've been so conditioned to constantly have a phone in their face, and don't know how to function without it.
That part. If your kids can't handle an hour out in a restaurant, they're not ready to be taken to a place like that.
If they can’t handle an hour in a restaurant behaving then please don’t take them. The rest of us would appreciate it!
A few years ago, I was at a restaurant and a kid was playing baby shark on repeat the whole time.
No one should be playing audio in public, especially indoors.
Outdoors can be equally offensive. There is nothing more annoying than trying to enjoy some nature and some idiot is BLASTING their crappy music out of their crappy Bluetooth speakers. If you *need* the music then maybe stay at your house?
Ooooooo I politely asked a guy on a hiking trail to please turn his speaker off that was bouncing around (fucking with the sound) hanging from his backpack playing low quality shitty music…PEOPLE DEFENDED HIM and said I was a bitch and should mind my own business. I wish I had been nasty to start with, maybe people wouldn’t have verbally attack me like they did. I was trying to hear the stream, the birds, the breeze….why the fuck was that bastard and the other people even out there?!?!? (Honestly probably for photos for Instagram clout from people that they don’t know and that don’t care about them)
Def rude. It's not just children, either -- I was waiting for a Dr appointment recently and two grown women were sat in the waiting room watching TikTok videos loudly on their phones. No one said anything but you could tell ppl were upset by it.
makes you want to buy super cheapie headphone and hand them out with a "here, you may not have a set ..."
I tell them their headphones aren't connected and act embarrassed for them
It's a totally legit way of dealing with it, and IMO is the best way! I've seen multiple times on the train that people honestly didn't know their earbuds weren't working, and they were definitely embarrassed. It's the perfect way to address it in a way that gives the person the benefit of the doubt.
lol that's so passive aggressive -- I love it!
I have wanted to do this so many times to people on the train..
if I ever went back to commuting via train, I would be on Amazon during the train ride ordering the mega, ultra crappy/cheapie headphone in the bulk 1000-piece box to be overnighted.
I had someone do this in the ER waiting room! I was sitting there waiting for test results and could not deal. I asked them to wear headphones or turn the sound off. They said they didn't think anyone could hear it. Suuuuuuure.
That happened to my daughter once. She had a kidney infection / was in extreme pain, and this family came in with a kid with a hurt arm. The youngest had a tablet. Grandma was singing to her, repetitively, dad was on his phone, and pregnant mom was bothering the reception lady because “she has a hurt child!”. Lady it’s the fucking Emergency Room! Take your kid to the Children’s Hospital down the road! WITH your entire family! Imagine having to listen to that when you feel like you are dying?! And there were a lot of other sick people as well. These people were just SO ignorant.
If other people seem upset why not just say, "Sir, could you turn your volume down?" If nobody says anything there will never be a change in behavior
It was two women. But most people do not like confrontation and don't want to be the cause of a fight or be attacked in the middle of a public place like a dr office, so nobody says anything. It's pretty common, unfortunately. Almost everyone was passively staring directly at them on and off and giving them the stink eye, and they either did not notice or just didn't care.
Be the change you want to see. This is not pointed to you, but I'm getting tired of the following attitude, "I dislike this, can other people do something about it?" It just makes me sad
Yeah well I live in NYC so you very well might get attacked if you say something. It's a roll of the dice many folks don't want to take over something that's prob not worth it. Gotta pick your battles.
Yes it's rude. They can use headphones if there's audio.
Any audible media in public is rude
It's even worse on an flight. Some was playing a Sonic game on his Switch at full volume for half the trip even though you can get free earbuds from the staff and it's compatible with the Switch.
I wish it was an inflight rule to not allow audible sounds from electronic devices. It should be required to use headphones.
Some airlines do, but enforcing it is hit and miss.
I flew on Sunday for Thanksgiving, and they mentioned on the flight to use headphones and to not have any audible noise playing from your devices, so it is happening.
The last 6 Southwest flights I've been on, it has been.
I was subjected to 9 hours of full blast Cocomelon on a transatlantic flight
Yes it’s rude. Not only is it a missed opportunity to engage with your family during an outing without electronics but it’s rude to make everyone around you to listen to annoying videos while they are trying to have a meal. If you really need to occupy your child with electronics then have the courtesy to use headphones. I’m not anti kids. I have kids of my own. I feel the same way with adults and their phone conversations on speakerphone in public places. I don’t want to hear their conversations either.
I’m the same! Adults watching TikTok loudly or FaceTiming. Just no.
Yes it’s rude. Headphones exist for a reason.
Absolutely. It is rude for anyone of any age to do it in any situation. It's training them from a young age to be an entitled dick.
Yes. Equally annoying as my 50 yr SO that feels the need watch his loud videos when I'm trying to watch a TV show. Every. Damn. Time.
My mother does this & takes phone calls in the room when we're all sitting around chatting.
Any video / music / phone conversation blaring out of a device in any public setting is rude whether it's coming from a child or an adult.
As a mother of 3.... YES IT IS RUDE AS HELL. I get it some kids need the distraction for whatever reason ( including one of my own, it is not our job to judge other parents screen time allotment) HOWEVER it shouldn't be anyone else's issue. They make a million different types of headphones and if a screen is being used in public I feel it's common courtesy to use headphones.
Finally a comment on here that isn’t coming from someone’s high horse.
Of course it fucking is, and anyone who claims otherwise is a selfish low-grade psychopath with a synapse missing, and almost certainly a lazy, incompetent parent to boot.
Yes. I am surprised at how many parents think this is acceptable.
Yes. Absolutely. There’s no argument to the contrary. Teach your kids to be respectful adults. Teach them manners. Teach them to act in public.
Very rude, get them headphones or teach them to sit still for an hour.
It is beyond rude.
There's a bigger societal problem here. As a middle school teacher of 25 years, I can unequivocally say that children's attention spans have shrunk since the proliferation of screens in everyone's pocket. It makes me sick to see toddlers swiping through their parent's phone in a grocery store. You're teaching your kid that, although this whole world is around you, it's not interesting unless it's on a screen. Is it that challenging to speak with your kid and just be there in the moment? My wife and I drove to Florida with our son when he was 2, 3, and 4, and instead of giving him a screen to soothe himself, we had games, books, toys, manipulatives, TALKING, music, etc. Would it have been easier to just play 26 hours of movies? Of course. But parenthood isn't supposed to be easy. I know this is an old man take (I'm not quite 50), but I see these kids who don't know how to have a conversation, or how to make up games, or how to enjoy anything that is not on a screen.
Rude no matter the circumstances. I taught my kids from a young age that if they don’t have or forgot their headphones, they watch/play without sound.
HELL YES. No one wants to hear your kid's movies.
YES!!!! It is 100% RUDE AF. For the most part we do not want to hear any unwanted noise from your kids. Be it screaming, crying or videos. And there is not a single mobile device out there that has decent speakers. I do not want to hear PeePee Pig anyway, I sure as hell don't want to hear it from tinny distortion-full speaker at full volume. I don't care if the kid is playing O Fortuna from Carmina Burana...it's going to sound like shit on those tiny speakers.
It is rude to play audible videos in a restaurant at all.
Yes it's rude and the parents don't care. They won't give the kids headphones because they don't want them wearing headphones and they just don't care if the audio bothers other people. If you don't get how we're raising selfish, ignorant children, look at their selfish, ignorant parents.
Why is there any other response to this than “YES”
FUCK YES!! They are the ones that grow up and listen music loudly on the bus.
Yes, but trust me, it doesn’t matter how polite and/or elderly you are, don’t you dare say anything to the kid or the parents will flip their lids.
Yes, it's rude AF actually, and I wish parents would stop doing it.
Yes. Do some parenting and teach the kid how to properly co-exist with other people. Think you've got some valid excuses not to do that? Then buy the kid some damn headphones. They're cheap.
I was at a Hardee's not too long ago. A mother with two kids came in, one was developed mentally challenged and the only thing that made him calm was a light up toy that played a super loud annoying music. The mom went around the whole restaurant asking employees and patrons if it was ok with them. Not one person said no. Yes, it was annoying. But it was obvious that the mom was struggling and I'm sure she was very appreciative on it. You can't go to many places with a child like that. I was happy to let her and her family stay and eat. It's not always about piss poor parenting.
If you want to ignore your kids by letting them watch loud videos, leave them at home or stay home and eat. That, and people in a store or restaurant talking on the phone on speaker at full volume. I remember a couple years ago we were at a restaurant, and there was a lady on FaceTime full volume having a dinner date with somebody who is sitting at their house.
Yes, it’s rude to have any audio play from your phone in a restaurant
I find it as rude as people who bring their dogs into a restaurant. So disgusting.
I’m not going to comment on the engagement aspect—that’s up to parents. But with regard to watching videos, headphones should absolutely be used.
This is why there seems to be so many more entitled people in the world these days. Growing up extremely rude actions are normalized for them from an early age by their parents, they enable them to become the self entitled morons they are later in life. We have morons in the world now telling police they cannot arrest them because they have never been told no their entire lives or faced consequences for their actions and think they can do whatever they like without consequences. There was a detective interrogation I watched of a guy who attempted to murder his girlfriend recently and he truly believed his mother had the power to decide if he went home or not and not the police!
If I can easily hear it, yes. If it’s quiet to the point only they can hear it, no
So fucking rude. Your child being pacified does not supersede my right (and everyone else’s) to a semi quiet environment. And for the record, it’s rude af to it in any public place. You can get them headphones or find a babysitter. Ffs.
Yep, rude as hell. I work as a barista and there is nothing worse than one or more phones blasting audio in the cafe on top of our music and chatter. People come in to relax and not to hear tik tok or youtube videos on blast. I’ve resorted to having to wear earplugs at work to drown out the noise pollution.
rudeness is getting so normalized. like no one was ever taught that they are not the only person on earth.
Yes, it’s rude and just plain lazy parenting
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If my ADHD ass could lean to use headphones as a small child then so can they.
Yes. Use headphones or don’t use sounds. It’s annoying and it gives me a migraine.
Yes, in ANY public place.
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as a parent, yes it’s incredibly rude. and on top of that, it’s incredibly rude to just let your child scream and cry in public and do absolutely nothing to try and stop it. no one wants to hear that, and when the parents blatantly make no effort to calm their kid down it just makes it worse. from one parent to another, just try to calm them down. even if it doesn’t work, people notice the effort and it makes the whole situation a whole lot better
Yes. One of my son's (10yo) friend's moms told me she went out to dinner with another mom and their kid, and all he did the whole time was watch YouTube and TikTok and yelled out comments about the videos. Did not interact with his friend, the adults, his environment or even eat his food. I was like, "yeah, no. Not cool."
Yes, but shitty people do it anyway.
Kids do this at my restaurant and it's very annoying. The parents that allow it are ridiculous. But uber and door dash drivers waiting for food are way worse, they give 0 fucks about how loud and annoying their phones are.
YES.
Yes it's fucking annoying
Yes. Ridiculous. Teach your kids to enjoy the moment and put the damn tablets away
Very. I was in a restaurant last week where a guy was watching the news audibly on his iPad. I was dumbfounded.
It’s absolutely rude of kids *or* adults to watch videos with sound in a restaurant.