The lady beside me has the volume on her BlackBerry set to L-O-U-D. There are several of us around her who are fiddling with our own BlackBerries, which are quiet.
She's in full BBM-mode (*BBM = BlackBerry Messenger), sending messages back and forth between herself and a colleague. The pinging is so loud that I want to punch her in the va-jay-jay after every ping.
After the 11th ping or so, the guy across from me drops his head into his hands. Let me tell you something about "dramatics" and "grandstanding". The people annoying the shit outta you? They don't notice your gestures, your eye rolls, your death stares, your sighs, or your throats clearing.
Queue me.
"Would you like me to show you how to turn your volume down?" I ask the woman.
"Oh, is it bothering you?" She asks, throwing a quick glance at everyone around her. Thanks for shaking all your heads "yes", you donkeys.
"It's a little loud," I say with a polite smile. I take her Blackberry and show her on the Home Screen how to change her alerts. We settle on "Normal" although I would have preferred "Silent".
She doesn't thank me which irks me. I imagine she thought I was in the wrong. That I was rude. Or bold.
No, what I am is smart. There was no way in hell I was listening to anyone play a game of BBM ping-pong for 45 minutes. Not on my watch. Imma shut you down.
Meme butchered by Yours Truly
6 comments:
I am continually floored at how oblivious people are.
Too bad you didn't set it to silent. And then watch her try to fix it back to normal or ear-blistering, whatever makes her happy.
What happened to turning every sound off and only have it on vibrate to alert you of an incoming call or message?
Fight for your right ... wait ... wrong post.
I have to admit that I have my phone set to ring, and ring quite loud. However, the only person who calls me is my husband/ride and in five years he has called me maybe 4 times to let me know about an extended wait time as he is running VERY late for whatever reason.
So, because my phone rings so infrequently I tend to not hear/ignore anything other than a loud ring. Everything else just fades into the background. And if I had it on vibrate I would never notice it, as the phone is kept in my case, only coming out to be recharged regularly.
vibrate is just as annoying is pinging. vibrate is not silent!
That sounds like the person I was sat next to a few weeks back if they got off at Oshawa. I was close to hurling it from the train by Pickering.
I love the meme... it is going to be my new BBM pic! :)
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