Originally Posted by
Icarusian
Definitely one of my pet hates. I don't think I've ever taken a call in a lounge and if I absolutely have to do it on the train, I go to the vestibule area, whether I'm in a quiet carriage or not.
I sometimes want to shout at people "Just because your phone rings, what makes you think you have to answer it?"
I also dislike loud conversations. The worst place for them is on an early morning flight when trying to sleep. Maybe I'm just antisocial but I don't have a single colleague I would want to sit beside on a plane at 6am and have a chat (and it's usually colleagues).
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the voice on the plane is always the person sitting behind - never directly behind but either side - i put it down to the accoustics of the cabin, it is that person is sitting on your shoulder dripping their inane comments into your ear, the more you think about them they louder their comments become, the more you dislike them - I used to wear foam earplugs for this reason. A couple of times (not on BA but on Flybe) I have been asked to remove them for takeoff and landing?!?! so I now have some minute travel grommet thingies that nobody can see, which allows me to drift off into sleep during taxi and takeoff without having to listen to some unbelievably inane nasally annoying self important twerp.
(BTW, I'm 100% sure if I could be bothered to chatter incessantly during flight then I would also be that unbelievably inane nasally self important twerp to the person in front to the left or right)