No Stupid Questions

I have one that bothers me more. There are people who park their cars in front of random houses at night, I assume it’s delivery people or ubers taking a break. They will have their phones connected to their cars; speakers at max. I can hear their whole conversations while I am trying to fall asleep. Happens about once a month where I live.

Because people are assholes. I say that in public I'm surrounded by assholes at all times. Then they want to act like I'M the common theme here.

No. I don't listen to my phone without headphones in public. Assholes do.

I don't IMMEDIATELY stop at the end of an escalator and just stand there. Assholes do.

I don't try to immediately get on the train as the doors open before people can get off. Assholes do.

I'm not a smoker at all, but if I were I wouldn't just start smoking in public places where crowds need to form, like bus stops, or lines, or even worse, indoors. Assholes do this.

I don't masturbate on the bus next to kids. Assholes do.

I don't pee in the stands of a crowd at a sporting event. Assholes do.

I don't go into public places and start shooting people with guns. Assholes do.

I don't take an entire family to the mall so we can all walk around the food court, grab all the free samples, but instead of them eating it, I get like 30 free samples, and thus a free meal. Assholes do.

Figure out their name. Figure out the conversation. Join in. Example:

Ashleigh! Don't tell your husband about our passionate romantic relationship!

Ashley: I don't know you!

Example Me: Ashleigh! You said you were leaving him, it's him or me!

Ashley: Go away this is none of your business!

Example Me: Ashleigh, Don't act like you don't know me. I've seen 100% of you not that long ago!

Be the chance you want in this world.

The people I've seen do this seem to be trying to establish dominance and are hoping someone confronts them so they can fight. A pissing contest.

That, or, they are so self-absorbed that they lack the ability to realize that their behavior impacts others.

It's mostly because "fuck you, I do what I want."

I always assumed they're either trying to prove they have friends or they have no self-awareness whatsoever.

Entitlement

This makes me so irrationally angry. Where I live it's usually just 12 year old kids on the bus who forgot headphones but still want to listen to the narration of the world's shittiest tiktok videos rather than reading the captions. It's fine. I'm fine. Everything is fine.

Some fucking clown did this at the gym the other day. She was on the elliptical and was blasting music at full volume from her phone instead of using headphones. It absolutely shocked me how fucking oblivious and inconsiderate people can be. I also saw a toothbruth left in the sink and flip flops left in the sink at this gym too. Fucking clowns.

Shit tier humans. Same sorts of people who don't put carts back at the store.

It’s selection bias. Almost nobody does it, but for those odd people who do, everyone gets to hear them.

Just like the people who speed, weave and pass everyone in traffic; there’s relatively few of them, but they affect everyone, so it feels like more people are doing it than actually are.

All it takes is for one person who normally uses headphones to have their batteries die, forget the headphones, or something else totally explainable, and suddenly they can be affecting hundreds or even thousands of people.

Of course, there are also other people who just regularly talk loudly on their phones and have the speaker cranked to max; I suspect these are people with ear/hearing issues that find headphones uncomfortable and don’t realize how noisy they’re being because they can’t hear it themselves when others do it (because of hearing issues or because they never shut up).

I wish I had the balls to start up my own fake conversation next to them. Talk about how your proctologist/obgyn visit went in excruciating detail.

They want you to hear their superior musical taste \s

They are subtly asking for blunt force trauma

Not "always". In fact almost never where I live. And if they do, it is very likely we witness some glorious russian culture on display.

Some people are hard of hearing. It annoys me but I know people who turn on speakerphone immediately since they say they can't otherwise hear.

Weird isn't it? We only tend to notice those who are noticeable

No they don't, you only notice the ones that do. It's called toupee fallacy.

Why do people post hyperbolic questions they know the answer to lol

I've never experienced this. Everybody here uses headphones of some sort, and I have no idea how loud they're listening.

They don't care about anyone else. They believe that they shouldn't care because other people do that crap, and/or if someone is annoying they should block it out with headphones. Asking them to keep to themselves is worse than just blocking it out in their eyes. I cut ties with people like that. "My" mother is like that, blasting stupid duolingo games in public areas. Bitch did that for a whole train ride and also in the elevator, and found it Funny™ that I asked her not to do that.

Short answer: they don't care and are most likely marijuana addicts who beat their significant other when they withdraw and/or are emotionally abusive. Incredibly red flag.