'Enjoy a bouquet of petty little annoyances': Guy keeps talking loudly on the phone during train ride, passenger gets even

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    Train - ATTENT AVA
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    Font - Keep blabbing on the phone on the train? Enjoy a bouquet of petty little annoyances This is happening right now. I'm on the train and there is a guy on my fourseater, across form me, who has made 5 or so calls in the last two hours. Sadly, I can't be obviously obnoxious back to him because my colleagues are travelling with me. What I did so far:
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    Font - Listening to music (over my headphones) and tapping my foot so close to his foot that he definitely must feel the vibrations. Striking up conversations with my colleagues so that he gets to know what it feels like when more than one obnoxious is loud (he then always furrows his brow and looks at me).
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    Font - Getting up and sitting back down surprisingly often, and two times I bumped the back of his laptop, so now he guards it against bumps when I move.
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    Font - One of my colleagues gave us some little chocolates. Dude looked as if he hoped that we would offer him some, too, so I am eating those chocolates very slowly, one about every five minutes. Each time he looks at me like a Golden Retriever from below the dinner table. I sometimes make eye contact and smile pleasantly. Half an hour to go.
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    Font - ILoveAllSupernatural. 10 hr. ago Had similar on a flight home from the states, the women next to me refused to move her bag a bit so i could fit mine in the overhead, so i spent the whole flight laughing obnoxiously loud at big bang theory every single joke, i knew when to laugh as ive seen them all multiple times, every time she got comfy i needed the toilet. The woman to the other side of me knew what i was doing and jus kept stifling her laughter brilliant 8 hours! 157 Reply Share
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    Font - MannekenP 8 hr. ago Had to explain to my wife why I was laughing so hard, so I had to explain to her the golden retriever analogy you made and now we are both laughing and making faces.
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    Font - FewForce51658 hr. ago It's weird that some people automatically raise their voice when in the phone, probably unaware they are doing it.
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    Font - tanzanite20 9 hr. ago If he's being unnecessarily loud, I get it. If he's just talking normally, are you sure the calls weren't important to them? I know it's annoying but unless they are being loud, and obnoxious about it, I don't think it was all that bad.
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    Font - johnnyonetwothree. 9 hr. ago That's really obnoxious of him to talk on his phone like that while he's sitting in the dedicated quiet zone of the train. He's not? Mm.
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    Font - futurefirestorm - 4 hr. ago . When someone is extra loud on the phone in public transportation, I usually involve myself in their conversation with an opinion on what I hear him/her say. If discussing food, I give my opinion... it stops all phone calls quickly.
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    Font - HowCould YouSMH. 7 hr. ago I see many on here are your guy on the train, lol. It's not about being on the phone. It's not being discrete and loud. Essentially disturbing the peace. If everyone knows what's going on in your life, you're doing it WRONG.
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    Happy - thermidorthelobster. 9 hr. ago You're upset because somebody is talking on the phone in a train? Wow, chill out.
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    Font - skanus_cepelinai OP. 32 min. ago I was hoping to get some work done. If dude is howling like a werewolf for 20 minutes, then be quiet again for 15 and then howling for 20, how much work do you think I got done? And the fact that he didn't like it when I was the one talking pretty much shows how asocial it is to tlak loudly, no?
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    Font - Ok-Zombie-001 - 9 hr. ago So, he's not allowed to use his cell phone just because he is on the train?
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    Font - Dudley Mason 5 hr. ago Basically, yeah. . People who make/take calls in public places are awful people. Nobody else needs to hear you discuss what's for dinner with your spouse at the top of your lungs in a train car or a bus.
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    Font - jerry1111657 hr. ago I'm trying to figure out why you would be upset over someone talking on the phone
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    Font - skanus_cepelinai OP. 26 min. ago Go google why people on the phone in public are obnoxious.

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