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An hour ago I felt fine. Now, I have a headache. Why? you ask.
Well, an hour ago, DH started talking on the phone - I swear the man YELLS into the phone. He doesn't talk that loudly when we're talking. He isn't loud when he speaks to others. ONLY when he's on the phone is he LOUD!!
My head is pounding. I'm in another room, and I can STILL hear him over the TV.
Anyone else's SO or DH also seem to develop this odd problem on the phone?
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No but I have a really good friend/co worker that I can hold the phone out 8-10 inches from my head even with the volume all the way down and everyone else in the office can hear her as well.
My sister yells into the phone...and I am the one hard of hearing. but she does it to EVERYONE. When you are with her and she does this on the phone it is SOOOO annoying!!
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I feel your pain Teresa!
My dh does the exact same thing!
He talks so loudly on the phone, that I usually have to leave the room!
But like your dh, mine doesn't talk like that any other time.
Too weird!
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We will be in bed, and DH will be telling a story as though he is addressing an auditorium, and I have to say "HELLO!! How far away is my ear from your mouth?" DH says he can't help it. He is using his Command & Control voice.
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My mom's like that.....I can hold the phone a good 6 inches away and still hear her crystal-clear.
I think all cell phones are like that too-whenever you're listening to someone they sound rather loud-but I've noticed out in public people always seem to shout into their phones. Gets annoying!!
My DH has the opposite problem. He speaks clearly and at a great tone. He just has the inablility to pay attention to a conversation. Of if he happens to appear to be paying attention he'll start yelling "WHAT??" because he has lost the thread of the conversation. I swear the man is either ADD or deaf. Probably both....
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My wife is quiet on the phone. But I am driven crazy by the large number of people on cell phones. I ride public transportation and almost every day someone is on my train and having THELOUDEST CONVERSATION about nothing what so ever. Dear sir or madam the world does not really need to hear what you said to your friend last night. You do not need to tell everybody on this train. SHUT UP ALLREADY!!! Sorry but it just drives me crazy!!!
My Mom gets on her cell and you would think shes using 2 tin cans and some stringMy DH gets on the cell and he sounds like the Hamburgler (McDonalds) rambarambaramba (thatsmumblingtoyouwhocantunderstandthat)
My wife is quiet on the phone. But I am driven crazy by the large number of people on cell phones. I ride public transportation and almost every day someone is on my train and having THELOUDEST CONVERSATION about nothing what so ever. Dear sir or madam the world does not really need to hear what you said to your friend last night. You do not need to tell everybody on this train. SHUT UP ALLREADY!!! Sorry but it just drives me crazy!!!
I ride public transportation too and have taken to carrying earplugs with me at all times. They're a godsend on a noisy bus and best of all they make it very easy to ignore your fellow passengers that are asking for money, the time, bus information (do I look like a route map or schedule?), or holding irritatingly loud conversations.
I'm with those of you wo get tired of hearing everyone else's cell phone conversations. I particularly detest the "walkie-talkie" push-to-talk ones...double the pleasure-doble the fun!
There seems to be no mystery anymore...
I actually started a conversation with a lady based on her previous cell phone conversation that she blared out as if she were a radio announcer. Aksed her questions about her night, etc. She told me it was non of my business, that it was a private conversation (absolutely correct) and I just apologized and said that since she was talking so loud I thought she was addressing us all. She was suitably flummoxed and I got a few surruptious (sp?) thumbs up! Probably not the most adult way to make my feeling known, but hey...sometimes the smart-aleck takes over.
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but she does it to EVERYONE. When you are with her and she does this on the phone it is SOOOO annoying!!
Probably not the most adult way to make my feeling known, but hey...sometimes the smart-aleck takes over.
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