Public phone talkers

When did people stop self-consciously lowering their voices if they had to take a call in public? We miss those halcyon days.

Nowadays it’s phone at max volume, complete with annoying ringtone and cranked-up keypad beeps. It’s wandering around, shamelessly yelling into a hands-free. It’s boring the faces off fellow bus and train passengers with your end of a tiresome conversation. It’s one-finger-in-the-ear yelling in pubs and restaurants. It’s rudely carrying on your chat while being wordlessly served in shops.

Memo to all of you: your phone call isn’t remotely important enough to justify being an enormo-git to real-life humans. Also, you’ve got an awful voice.