[verum ago]

Just a strange social observation that's been puzzling me for a couple years. It seems to me that if I were out on the street, it'd be the other way around. Is this just a waiting area thing? Am I taking crazy pills?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I don’t see adults doing that so much as kids 5 and under at the table in the restaurant doing it. Mom & Dad give the kids some noisemaker to occupy them and then proceed to let the little darlings do whatever they want. The infernal BEEPS and BOOPS from their mindless games drive me crazy.

[spacejunkie2001]

Read God’s Word; pretty much spells out how things completely fall apart in the end of the age, including young losing any respect for anyone but themselves.

[Paladin2]

I refuse to use headphones and I’m more than a bit over 50.

Nearby peeps are just going to have to live with the Rush wannabees.

I no longer choose to fly the skies though.

[HIDEK6]

They don’t like you.

[Psalm 73]

It's the on-going coarsening of American society. It's why you hear people drop the "F bomb" in public all the time.

We are crumbling, and the 55-year old obnoxious person next to you is just as much to blame as the Antifa lunatics.

[Paladin2]

I identify as a Boom Boxer....

[crusty old prospector]

Welcome to the party, pal.

[linMcHlp]

Gear - the youngsters see it, get it.

[fidelis]

No, I agree. I'm about twice as old as you and this phenomena was rude when I was your age, and it is still rude. Why does anybody think others want to hear what they are listening to or hear their loud conversations? What is wrong with using headphones or earbuds? One of my pet peeves are these super loud little game consoles that small kids carry around. Their parents seem oblivious to how loud and obnoxious these things are but are probably OK with it as long as junior keeps occupied.

It is my observation that, overall, people are simply more narcissistic and self-absorbed than they have ever been. They must think either they have a right to be as noisy as they want to, or even that others enjoy and want to hear want ever they have blasting. Same goes for the people that blast obnoxious hip-hop in their cars with the windows down.

End of rant.

[EinNYC]

Could it be, at least in some cases, age-related hearing loss, so they need to crank up the volume?

[Telepathic Intruder]

Those older people were once younger people but they never learned courtesy. Now they’re old and frail and worse about it because they think it gives them a right to be as rude as they’ve always been.

[plain talk]

Yeah this selfish trend has been on the rise. Speakerphones, aggressive driving, walking wrong way at gym walking tracks, jerk behavior in planes, etc. Me first.

I think people see others do it and copy them and it multiplies Little original thinking happening these days.

[FamiliarFace]

I was in SeaTac last summer and had an extended layover. We opted to pay for the upgrade to one of those fancy smancy airline club lounges for a few hours, because it was going to be a long travel day. Omg. It was just as noisy and busy as the regular waiting areas. What did we pay for??

We are older, but we know better than to be so loud.

[Red6]

I really can’t hear the phone except on speaker.

I’m not walking around with big headphones.

[nwrep]

America is becoming genetically inferior. As in undergoing a degradation of civilizational courtesies. We are as a nation genetically inferior to the America of the 1950s - it was well mannered, with the appropriate public etiquette that everyone obeyed. Since then, each decade has seen a slide, and now we are no better than a third world country like Romania, and will soon be as bad as Pakistan.

[Bonemaker]

I no longer find myself in such venues as airports.

[Gay State Conservative]

In my condo complex I get fairly frequent noise complaints from neighbors about my TV. I've been diagnosed with moderate hearing loss and told by an ENT specialist that I need hearing aides. But they start at $1,500 each so I can't afford them.

Perhaps these over 50s also have hearing problems.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

A Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin moment is about to come to the United States. Almost all of these postings validate that statement. Put me in charge and you would see solutions for all of this. People would be on video genuinely crying real tears and apologizing for their behavior once my crew got through with them. You think I’m joking....

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

They can't hear and they have no idea how loud they are. Everybody else is mumbling. Which is not totally wrong but they also are going deaf.

I got my DH noise canceling Bluetooth headphones for Christmas. He loves them and it has made the house quieter.

[eyedigress]

You are in Seattle. Just as obnoxious as any place in the world.