The speakerphone paradox

[u/NeighborhoodJust1197]

I was at the pool today when a woman started having a conversation on her phone using the speaker.

I politely asked her if she could not use the speaker and pointed to my headphones.
She said, “I don’t have headphones.”
So I said, “You can just hold the phone next to your ear.”

She looked at me with a completely blank expression and said, “I’m on speakerphone.”
I said, “Well… that’s the problem.”

Apparently, we had reached the limits of modern technology.

[u/Maverickfftytwo]

I love the idea, unfortunately the most common place I experience this is in the break room at work and the conversation is in Spanish 😒 guess it’s time to fire up Duolingo…

[u/SushiGirlRC → u/Maverickfftytwo]

So a girl that sat next to me for a while at a job used to have Spanish convos. I'm good at ignoring stuff like that, but one day I decided to crack her up. I messaged her "how can I eavesdrop when you're talking in Spanish?" She definitely cracked up.