We Can All Hear Your Conversation

I'm sitting on the train, trying to read a book, and the bloke opposite me is having a full-volume FaceTime call. He's holding the phone flat in front of his mouth like a piece of toast.

I now know everything about his cousin's botched renovation and his opinions on his boss. Why does he think the entire carriage wants to participate in his domestic drama?

It takes a staggering lack of self-awareness to broadcast your life to fifty strangers. Put the phone to your ear, or buy some of those expensive wireless earbuds they forced us all to get!