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/Sunflower-in-the-sun]

Personally I am lazy and prefer to not do the work of holding the phone next to my face, so I use speaker phone or headphones if I am at home. However if I am in public I do not take calls for everyone to hear because I have a sense of shame.

[u/africanlivedit → u/Sunflower-in-the-sun]

Wonderfully said.