'My music is as annoying as your conversation': Male Karen has loud conversation on speaker phone in elevator, other passenger blasts music as payback

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Sep 2, 2024 8:00 AM EDT

Does anyone else fear being on an interminable elevator ride with an annoying stranger? Truly, this is like nails on a chalkboard for me, especially if my fellow passenger tries to make conversation or is as aggressively impolite as this male Karen was. 

This dude had the audacity to scream on speaker phone during a long elevator ride, having no regard for the other person standing a short distance away from him as if he were completely invisible. So, seeing as the male Karen refused to quiet down or even acknowledge that he was not by himself, the other passenger decided to put his foot down by giving the Karen a taste of his own medicine. The passenger removed his headphones and started blasting his music at full volume, thereby interrupting and ruining the Karen's phone call. That's what you get for being disrespectful, sir!

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for more fun reactions from folks in the comments section. When you're done, check out this post about a guy who got some much-needed petty revenge on his lunch-thieving coworker.

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    "Today, I got on the 26th floor elevator and a man was having a speaker phone conversation on the elevator ride..."
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    Petty revenge to a public speakerphone user
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    Simple story today I got on the 26th floor elevator and a man was having a speaker phone conversation on the elevator ride.
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    I decided it was annoying so I put on Wallk by Pantera full blast. Him and I were the only people on the elevator ride.
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    He asked me to put it down, I told him to shut off his speaker phone and put his phone to his ear if he wants me to shut off the music.
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    I said my music is as annoying as your conversation.
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    He called me an smiled and said cool man and we went our separate ways. I got a little joy from that encounter.
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    • MixxuTNS 2d ago Did you ask him "Are you talking to me?"
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    Minflick 2d ago • My favorite story about these inconsiderate fools is when bystanders respond to the phone call, and interact with the person on the other end. It gets pretty funny.
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    incadiesel 2d ago • On a 1 3/4 hour commuter train ride home one evening along with a work colleague. Some a*hole on the other side of the carriage
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    and three seats forward was having a very long and loud conversation about what a great business opportunity he had thought of,
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    and how he was going to get a website - domain or whatever, not a techy here - and actually gave the listener at the other end the name he had thought
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    up. The name really described his product or whatever really well. By the time we got to the destination my colleague - an IT
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    whiz - had registered the website, domain and anything else he could think of under his own name just to preclude the getting it.
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    . Abject_Di... 2d ago There are people who do that on the trails! Like we re walking in the woods and I get to hear someone having a speaker phone
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    conversation. I either get super loud, pretend I think they're talking to me, or yes play music loudly.
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    paksandp... • 2d ago I like to start singing Jingle Bells as loud as I can. Especially when it's not at Christmas.
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    Bonus- I can't carry a tune even if you gave me a bucket
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    Low-Stick... • 2d ago I work as a cashier. Used to be polite and be quiet when people were on their phones
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    as I was ringing them up. Then I progressed to waiting politely for breaks in their conversations to ask them the questions I needed to
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    ask. Eventually I got to where I will participate in their conversations. "Ooh I hate when that happens!" "One of my friends did the exact same thing!"
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    They look at me in disbelief that I am intruding. But if you have your phone on speaker in my line, you're obviously including me in the conversation and I won't be and not participate!
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