Don't you just hate cellphone handsfree/headsets??

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12 May 2012, 2:04 pm

I'm sure we've all made the mistake of thinking someone was talking to us, when it turns out they were actually one the phone.

What seems to happen to me more often though is thinking someone is on the phone, when they're actually talking to me...!

One would think the first scenario was more common, but I find myself saying "Oh, sorry, I thought you were on the phone" more often.

I'm not quite sure why, but I think it might have something to do with me shutting out most voices and conversations when I'm out and about, and automatically assume they're not talking to me.

I might have been trying to be smart about and assume people are on the phone to avoid the first situation, but it's kind of counterproductive when that results in the second situation, heheh..

Are you bothered by people using cellphone headsets or is it not an issue?

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12 May 2012, 2:41 pm

Fluke83 wrote:

That happens to me sometimes too and yes it's annoying, but I think it happens to everyone. I like to listen to people talk on the phone at my college campus, some of them are hilarious. When people are on the phone in public it's like they forget that everyone around them can hear them. It's amazing how much people argue while on their cell phone. I don't have a cell phone, I figure if I want to argue with people it can wait til I come home. I think NT's feel a compulsive need to be involved in drama and a cell phone is a great tool for finding and creating drama.

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12 May 2012, 3:00 pm

I'm not bothered by other people using them, but I shall never use one of those headset things that other people can't really see because people would be looking at me funny thinking I'm talking to myself loud in public, and I don't like that.

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12 May 2012, 4:01 pm

Actually I'm not bothered by it but it's a kind of strange feeling to me too. It's interesting though that I can't always notice when a colleague is talking on a cellphone when I can't see the unit in their hand. I'd make an attempt at starting a conversation or asking something just to get embarrassed...

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12 May 2012, 4:14 pm

Wearing cellphone hands-free headsets seems like a good way to make others think that I am talking on the phone to prevent others from trying to talk to me. Why didn't I think of this earlier?

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12 May 2012, 4:30 pm

I don't often use a cell/prepaid phone, but when I do, I prefer to use the headphones, as I am concerned about what it might do to my already compromised brain. I've read conflicting studies about this. Some say it can cause brain tumors, and some say not.

As for confusion over other people's conversations, long before such phones existed I had a problem with tuning people out. Also, when they are talking, they are rarely talking to me.

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12 May 2012, 4:32 pm

btbnnyr wrote:

Wearing cellphone hands-free headsets seems like a good way to make others think that I am talking on the phone to prevent others from trying to talk to me. Why didn't I think of this earlier?

It's a good way to make you seem 'normal' if you like to talk to yourself, we have been discussing it somewhere here before.

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12 May 2012, 5:35 pm

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