So people have always said about how inconsiderate other people are when they are taking phone calls in the metro, in the train that you can actually hear their conversation. I've never found it to be so. Nope, not because I do that (I have T-Mobile so my chances of getting phone calls while underground practically none) but because it's just not that annoying. I mean it's pretty much the same as sitting behind two people who are talking with each other.

But this morning, I finally understood what they're talking about. It was a quiet train. The seats were full but no one was standing. My seat faces the center area of the train and I'm sitting next to this lady in moss green power suit. Everybody was busy with their own thing, some stares at the door, others read express, and some others were sleeping. I picked up a sudden movement from my right out of the corner of my eye and within miliseconds a cell phone ring. It RANG, not one of those ringtones but it really RANG like a rotary phone on steroid. Everyone tensed up for a second, but nobody looked for the source. Then she flipped open her razor, and yelled "HELLO!" I must've either jumped in my seat or winced in pain from the high frequency soundwave attacking my ear, or both. It wasn't just me apparently, everybody within my sight jumped and looked at us for a few seconds. Then quiet. I thought she felt bad and quieted down so much that I even I couldn't hear what she was saying. As I was trying to get back into my reading, suddenly "NO, NO, THAT'S OKAY. I'M MEETING HIM LATER ANYWAY..." My God! Doesn't she know that those microphones on cell phones are sensitive enough that you can whisper and still be heard on the other side?

Later I was thinking, hmmm perhaps she has trouble hearing? or the reception was bad? But when she finished the call, she just flipped close the phone and that's it. No apology or anything to the people around her. I think at least she should say sorry to the guy sitting right in front of her, in her line of speech. As one of my friend said to another rude lady we met when we were at Ocean City. "Apparently wisdom doesn't come with age."