People like that just don't get it. They think they exist in a vacuum and nothing else matters. If he was talking to his mom it is partly on her for not teaching him any better manners.

Not only that, fatfred, but if someone has to talk that loudly to his mom, you've gotta wonder how much of an attention whore they both are!

It was a she?? Even worse!!

Here's a change of pace:

Yesterday my husband was driving me to work when a woman backed out of the alley right in front of us. We braked in time, but we were royally pissed off.

We ended up alongside each other as we were turning and she was going straight. I was quite surprised when she called out how sorry she was!

As she explained how she had looked, didn't know if we were in her blind spot or what, but she was very sorry,etc., I was just smiling in amazement that she was acknowledging and apologizing, and we ended up going our separate ways in a better frame of mind. I don't even remember what I said back. Something along the lines of "no harm done, these things happen", something like that.

Anyway, that kind of thing is getting so rare I just had to share it.

My ex-husband used to yell into his cell when he took calls (probably still does, I'm not sure). Used to drive me bonkers when we'd be eating out and he had to take a call for work (not because he had to take the call, but because he never took it anywhere private, and his voice was so danged loud).

He's not hard-of-hearing, and he doesn't generally not give a shit about others in public, so I never figured out why we never saw eye-to-eye on this. It's like he was completely unable (unwilling?) to acknowledge that he was talking into a fairly high-tech device, and not a tin can.

@Meloni, We just had to deal with something similar at work with an office phone. IT found the feedback on the phone was set to zero. When they turned it up to the standard the problem mostly went away. Apparently our desk phones block enough of the sound such that if their isn't any feedback of your voice to the earpiece people will talk louder because they think they aren't talking loud enough based on what they hear.

I have to wonder if Amy's house is just leaky when it comes to noise or she is super sensitive or something. Like my neighbor who was bothered by my radio (and regularly complained) even when it was turned down below 60 decibels (my SPL meter does not tend register anything under 60).

It's like he was completely unable (unwilling?) to acknowledge that he was talking into a fairly high-tech device, and not a tin can.