…as noticed on a trip to the city that I used to live in during late spring and early summer, when I encountered just multiple multiple people doing it in multiple places from train stations to busses to subways to random public spaces, including –
1) In the departure lounge of the train station, a (lower class) (black) woman practically yelling about how “he played me” and something about no respect and how she has a lot going on;
2) On a bus, this (gigantically fat) (nose-ringed) (light-skinned black) girl with thighs bigger than watermelons who took up two bus seats, holding out her phone and having this endless conversation with someone about rental apartments, her voice filling up the entire very crowded bus to where it was super distracting and even a tad difficult to have a conversation with someone next to you, since she’d start talking and it was like a louder-than-normal voice right next to you in your ear, butting in, even though she was sat relatively far away; and
3) This (late middle-aged) (Mexican from Mexico) guy on the subway, just pulling out his phone and having some long conversation in (Spanish).
. . .
That behavior was like EVERYWHERE. It totally spread, very very fast, and it’s total noise pollution and very bad boundaries in public spaces, much worse than ever.
Once that happens and people get socialized into that, I really don't know how you pull back from that.
"A new low."
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