So I'm at the gym today, in the zone, focused, sweaty and tired. I'm on the last 15 minutes of 50 minute workout on the elliptical machine when a 6 ft Amazon of a German chick gets on the machine next to mine and proceeds to call every person she knows and converse (shout) in German with them (on speaker phone, of course). I could hear her through my headphones. Suddenly my workout playlist sounded more like the B-side of a Kraftwerk album. Eesh. Not good. About halfway through I wanted to grab her iPhone from her hand and fling it across the gym.
Seriously??? And while we are on the subject, what's with the speakerphone phenomenon? I used to think it was annoying just having to listen to one side of an asinine conversation but, as it turns out, hearing both sides is twice as annoying and doubly stupid (especially if said conversation is in German and just sounds like a bunch of phlegmy yelling).
My point is, just stop. Trust me when I say you aren't interesting enough to broadcast your entire conversation to everyone standing within earshot. Nobody wants to hear it, probably not even the person you are talking to. And as for you, Gretel,
next time put a lederhosen in it.
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