Category: the Rant Board
Must I have music blaring from my iPod everywhere now to drown out everything from meaningless chatter...harmless...to speech that is just plain gross & at one time would have branded the talker crude?
Sample cell phone conversation at kids playground: Woman yacking on cell phone, "Um, yeah, she was delivered, he was a whopping 10 lbs 9 oz, she had to be induced. No, it wasn't a C section, she just pushed him out...Didn't even require any stitches, and I couldn't even push out my own 9 pounder...." ?! Gag me! The kids here are no older than 4, and we all have to hear about the end product of this unknown woman's sex life?!
Grown people in my workplace comment on bathroom smells, details of labors more than 10 years ago...um, why do I have to hear about some poor soul whose no longer here making bathroom odors his first day of work?! There's one kid I don't like my young daughter playing with because he's the only kid that after he leaves, she is going on about "P P, Poo poo, caca." Adults?! That's it I'll be Spongebob with a spaced out look in my eyes and big, '70's style headphones blaring loudly...
I don't see a problem with the conversation about the baby but the ones about the bathroom are a bit much. Honestly, who wants to discuss that at work?
So, let me get this straight. You're blaring loud music to destroy your ears so you can't hear anything? Is that right?
Sorry spongebob, I usually agree with what your saying but in this one, I say get over it. They have the right to free speech, you have the right to ignore it. If you don't like it, move or put on your headphones, if you can't do that, deal with it. Why should I have to sensor myself for your sake, or you for my sake? If you were talking about something that I didn't want to hear about, it would be my problem to deal with, not yours, and you would not want me telling you that you can't or shouldn't talk about it.
I echo the last post completely. Also, how exactly was talking about going to the bathroom ever sacred? I can understand about giving birth, but maybe the topic title should have been different?
just like you have a right to blare your iPod so as not to listen to them, they have a right to do the things you've listed.
also, has it occured to you that no one wants to hear your blaring iPod? just sayin'.
guess this is one of those cases of, I can do what I want regardless of what others thinnk...but if others do anything I can't stand, it's ok for me to be up in arms!!
sadly for your sake, that isn't the way it works.
People often do as they do at the office, because the office today has become the second home: You're there more than you are at home, and often the familiarity increases informality. Those cases where formality is so insisted upon, yet hours and hours are spent, overtime, weekends, the works, can ruin someone.
Wear noise canseling headphones with the switch. That way you don't have to blair the music. Or just plain old earplugs, cotton. Lol I wonder if they feel that the sound coming from your 70 style headphones is crap and really just hate it. Lol
Guess that would work, but try not to be writing in the "Hear no evil, see no evil" board next time I see you.
They're Right Spongebob I didn't look at the topic in which this was posted.
Hear No Evil See No Evil is a board specific to deaf-blind (people who are both) issues.
Duno how it got that name as it does sound rather quaint. Possibly you didn't know.
Think it's a reference to the movie of more or less the same name. The difference is the movie is actually See no Evil, Hear no Evil, which if I'm not mistaken was about a blind man and a deaf man who were friends.
richard pryer and some other actor. good movie!
I'm confused, but thats nothing new. This is the Rant Board right? So see no evil,. hear no evil or the other way around doesn't apply? Smile.
I'm guessing that this board was moved to the appropriate category.
With that said though, my bathroom time is my own sacred time. I really can't imagine telling someone how good it feels when I give birth to one of those big huge... That's just something a bit too private to share. I can't believe I'm even posting this. I'm so embarrassed now.
The idea is telling spongebob not to kill her ears with the music, so I said don't have to post in that board.
The baby conversation doesn't bother me but I agree with tiff about the bathroom stuff. I mean, time and place folks!