Oblivious Lady

[customersruinmylife]

I was on a train on my way to my parents house, when this lady came along. She was on her phone on the train, and my GOD, she was LOUD. I don't know who the hell she was talking to, but the conversation went on for over 30 minutes. Here are some segments of her conversation:

Lady: YES...WE HAD TO PUT THE CAT TO SLEEP YESTERDAY...YES, VERY VERY SAD, I CRIED A LOT....I GOT HOME AND POOR OLIVIA WAS ASKING WHERE SHE WAS...SHE'S ONLY FOUR SO I HAVE NEVER EXPLAINED DEATH TO HER BEFORE...YES...YES...SO I JUST TOLD HER THAT SCRATCH HAD GONE TO LIVE WITH HER GRANMOTHER FAR AWAY...YES...

Lady: YES...YES THAT SOUNDS GREAT...YES WE SHOULD DO THAT, I LOVE GOING TO THAT PLACE...YES, ME AND MARK DON'T GET OUT VERY MUCH BECAUSE IT'S HARD TO GET A SITTER FOR OLIVIA...BLESS HER.

I looked around the train. It was full of very annoyed looking people who were trying to read and all they could hear was her. One woman looked as though she was going to get up and strike her.

Lady: YES...WELL I WAS AT WORK THE OTHER DAY...YES...YES I HATE HER TOO...

People are getting more and more annoyed...

Lady: OH MY GOD...MY PHONE'S BEEPING, THAT MEANS THE BATTERY IS DYING...DON'T WORRY, I'VE GOT MY SPARE...I'LL CALL YOU IF THE BATTERY GOES...

A passenger met eyes with me, we both shook her heads.

Lady: ACTUALLY...MY STOP IS COMING UP...YEAH...YEAH...YEAH...I'LL CALL YOU WHEN I GET BACK TO THE HOUSE...YES...OK...SEE YOU LATER...BYE...BYE...BYE!!

She hung up.

A couple of minutes later, a really cool passengers phone rang.

RCP: Hi there...yes...can I call you back in about twenty minutes...yes I know but I DON'T WANT TO SHARE MY CONVERSATION WITH THE REST OF THE TRAIN!

The train errupted with applause. The lady went VERY red and hid her face with a magazine.

Seriously, I learned so much about that lady, I could steal her identity.

[Balgram]

Cheers to that passenger! Oh, man...I hate the people who give out credit card numbers on the bus. I've taken up staring at them, then taking out a piece of paper and "writing down the number*" to see if they notice.

*I either write Hi in binary or I write down 4511 2569 8743.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

The lie about the cat reminds me of a point/counterpoint I saw in The Onion.

First, there was the mother telling her son that she sent the family dog away to live with a nice farm family.

And then the counterpoint from the dog letting the son know that mom had him put to sleep at the vet.

[Kogarashi]

Yeah, I wouldn't shout my conversation on the train or give out sensitive info in such a public location. If I can't hear the other end well enough to keep a low-key conversation going, then I'll ask to call them back.

Moot point, though, because every train I've been on has been a subway, with no signal for my phone, or (once) the train to NYC, where I was with Hubby and thus wouldn't have carried on such a long conversation with someone else. I save my long phone conversations for weekends at home when I can talk to my family without spending extra minutes.

or I write down 4511 2569 8743.

I don't get it.

[Danno]

That was kinda cruel, but I'm a firm believer that people only learn things the hard way, so I approve. It may just keep her from doing something stupid (like making credit card orders via phone) in the future.

[ditchdj]

Usually when some airhead (it ALWAYS seems to be middle-aged women) does this next to me in the store and I'm with my wife I'll start commenting loudly about her conversation with generic replies like "Oh I know. Tell me about it!" "Oh yeah I hate that too" "Yeah me too!" My wife gets really annoyed and embarrased when I do that.

[crazylegs]

At least lady #1 had the good grace to be aware that the comment was aimed at her, it may even teach her a lesson in manners!

Well, I can hope can't I?

[poofy_puff]

Seriously, I learned so much about that lady, I could steal her identity.

Someone might have been taking notes planning to do just that.

I bet if the person next to her whipped out a notepad and started writing what she was saying, she might have got the hint.

[Pagan]

or I write down 4511 2569 8743.

I don't get it.

I didn't either. So I googled it. Guess what the first hit is?

[wagegoth]

I was listening to some guy on BART talking to a ticketing agent. OMG! He wasn't talking quietly at all, and he mentioned his credit card number and his ticket number and his full name.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

One of the gals from Optical told me that last night she had some woman in the waiting area, blabbering loudly on her cell phone about "how fucking shitfaced" she got sometime in the recent past, and how the person on the other end "should've seen all the shit that happened."

And there were children in the waiting area to listen in on the proceedings.

She asked the woman to get off her cell phone or at least be more quiet, and of course got the cat-butt face.

[draftermatt]

She asked the woman to get off her cell phone or at least be more quiet, and of course got the cat-butt face.

That reminds me of my friend! She's an RN and had a patient on his cell cussing every other word. She marched into this rooms and said "Sir, this is a hospital and we don't need to hear every word you're saying on the phone, especially if you're going to talk like that"

She then heard him say "hey I should go, I just got yelled at by a nurse for cussing"

[XCashier]

I didn't either. So I googled it. Guess what the first hit is?

I did the same thing, and got a link to "Number Names". So, what's the joke?

[Pagan]

I did the same thing, and got a link to "Number Names". So, what's the joke?

Well, at the time when I googled it, this thread came up as the first hit. Doesn't now.

[Kogarashi]

I googled it right after Pagan mentioned that and also got this thread. So I still don't get it.