Yackity Yack

[noplace2]

Fulltime 13+ years. We try to pick out of the way places and frequently boondock so as to minimize the impact of other people.

We're in a tiny (18 space) park in SE TN. Sites are 30' X 120' gravel with virtually unlimited woods behind. Peaceful, heavily wooded and for the most part nothing but frogs singing at night. We've been here for a week and plan on another 2. Of the 18 sites, about a rotated 6 have been occupied the time we've been here.

Today, a rig pulled in 2 sites from us. New 40' Montana 5'er with 5 slides towed by a 2013/14 3/4 ton. I could just hear the salesman: "Of course you can tow that with this"! But that's another issue.

One of my great joys in life is to be able to sit under a quiet canopy of trees with a good cup of coffee and a book. I was doing just that.

OK, OK, I'll get to the point. The woman from that new rig spent at least the next 4 hours on her phone, outside, and speaking at a volume that, in the 1st 1/2 hour, made me privy to some very personal information about her husband (the jerk), her daughter (fibroids)
and the unsupportive son in law. Bear in mind that they are at least 500' from us. And to those who will inevitably say, "Well just don't listen" it's like a train wreck. At one point she looked at me and I gave her the universal finger to lips "shh" sign. She turned away and continued on with no decrease in amplification.

I gave up and grudgingly went inside at that point, but she was still out there 3.5 hours later. (Do cell phone batteries last that long?) No connectivity issues here. We carry a cell phone for emergencies and the rare other call, via Virgin Mobile. Their coverage sucks but even here we have 2 bars of quite usable service INSIDE our rig.

Bottom line: Take it inside with closed windows.

[hershey]

peaches&cream wrote:
Don't think I use the term "Hearing Aid" anywhere in my post. I have a hearing loss from training students in small airplanes without a headset. I just avoid phones. :S

Sorry peaches....I hear you loud and clear and I'll shutup.

[peaches_cream]

Don't think I use the term "Hearing Aid" anywhere in my post. I have a hearing loss from training students in small airplanes without a headset. I just avoid phones. :S

[wbwood]

hershey wrote:

peaches&cream wrote:

Dog Folks wrote:

CavemanCharlie wrote:
I didn't read all 4 pages of this thread. I agree that it was terribly rude and I don't do that.

Actually, I can't think of anything to say on a phone for that long. I have a hard time keeping up a conversation in person for that long.

That being said when on a cell phone I do talk LOUD. It encourages the other person to talk loud also and I can't hear on cell phones. I'm not sure if it's the small ear piece or the fact that the sound is digital. I have the volume on my cell phone turned all the way up and I still have a hard time hearing it unless I'm in a quiet place. On my old home phones that have a cord and a receiver that is built in a cone shape so you can actually put it to your ear I have no problem. But, a cell phone? Forget it. Might as well be using 2 tin cans with a piece of string between.

I have the exact same problem. Found out that the speaker phone function works well as far as hearing. If the call is in public my wife answers the phone.

If your wife can hear over the phone you cannot, reckon you need a hearing test? :S

Thats a knee-jerk assumption. A hearing aid is not a hearing cure. Its an aid that has sevear limitations. I have found that the IPhone has given me the best solution to hearing and understanding people on the phone. But some people just have a pitch in their voice that makes them impossible to hear properly. Not their fault, but its so frustrating to get a phone call and have to continually ask people to repeat until they get frustrated and hang up or say, I'll tell your wife later. I know that the programing of the hearing aid is also a big factor. Believe me when I say, its not a science at all. I have had professional exams and tuning and my best hearing device came from a friend who gave me his old hearing aids, tuned to his needs, when he got new ones. They have given me the best all around hearing aid.

I recently loss half the hearing in one ear, suddenly. After high dosage oral steroids, many rounds of steroid injections in my ear (drum), and having an MRI looking for an acoustic neuroma, I was diagnosed as having Sudden Sensorneural Hearing Loss. Fix? Not one. It is what it is. At age 45 and having relatively good hearing in my other ear, the ENT said he didn't think I needed a hearing aid and could compensate with my good ear. After sitting in the EBT's exams rooms many many times and seeing the chart on the back of the door about hearing loss, I was surprised to see that 37 million Americans suffer from hearing loss.

[DSDP_Don]

A good post by the OP and he did the right thing the first time. If it happened again, I might have to say something. We have a friend that can talk like that. We use to go on motorcycle rides. EVERY time we stopped, that phone was in her ear as soon as the helmet came off....she was a YACKER!

"CavemanCharlie".....we must have the same ears and issues. 34 years of Law Enforcement and explosive work have left my ears damaged. My left ear is the worse and I can't hear high pitch noise, which often includes my wife and one of my daughters on her cell phone. When it's quiet, I usually just hear the ringing. If only it would play a tune.:D

It seems in the evening when we're home, everyone still calls the cell phone vs the house phone, especially my brother who is as deaf as me.:S

We recently replaced our house phone with a portable Panasonic phone now sold at Costco. It links your cell phones to your house phone. Once we get home, our cell phones automatically connect, via Bluetooth, to our house phone. You can answer, I believe up to three cell phones, and the house line all on the same phone. It works great!

[CavemanCharlie]

Actually, In some of the areas where I camp the cell phone won't receive a signal inside. The signal strength is quite weak in some places around here and being inside the metal RV is enough to block out the signal.

[Deb_and_Ed_M]

Some people need to be "connected" just as desperately as some folks need peace and quiet. I'm guessing a person standing outside having several loud conversations is convinced her cell phone doesn't receive signals when inside?

I pretty much agree with the "respond to the call" to let her know that she's being too loud 😉 I mean everyone worries about those fibroids, right? LOL!!

[CavemanCharlie]

Ya, and it's funny I can seem to hear certain sounds and certain pitch ranges better then others. Some people I can understand easily. Others are more problematic. If you are talking to me in a crowed room, like say a bar, I am most likely just pretending to listen to you to be polite. I can't hear a thing you are saying. As for my age, well I've had that problem since I was in my 20's.

I also have a ringing in my ears when it's super quiet. I keep a fan running in my bedroom at night to make a little white noise. Now that problem was most likely caused by to many years of loud farm machinery. Some of that stuff is painfully loud. Wish somebody had told me to be more careful with me hearing when I was younger but, we just never thought about it.

[hershey]

peaches&cream wrote:

Dog Folks wrote:

CavemanCharlie wrote:
I didn't read all 4 pages of this thread. I agree that it was terribly rude and I don't do that.

Actually, I can't think of anything to say on a phone for that long. I have a hard time keeping up a conversation in person for that long.

That being said when on a cell phone I do talk LOUD. It encourages the other person to talk loud also and I can't hear on cell phones. I'm not sure if it's the small ear piece or the fact that the sound is digital. I have the volume on my cell phone turned all the way up and I still have a hard time hearing it unless I'm in a quiet place. On my old home phones that have a cord and a receiver that is built in a cone shape so you can actually put it to your ear I have no problem. But, a cell phone? Forget it. Might as well be using 2 tin cans with a piece of string between.

I have the exact same problem. Found out that the speaker phone function works well as far as hearing. If the call is in public my wife answers the phone.

If your wife can hear over the phone you cannot, reckon you need a hearing test? :S

Thats a knee-jerk assumption. A hearing aid is not a hearing cure. Its an aid that has sevear limitations. I have found that the IPhone has given me the best solution to hearing and understanding people on the phone. But some people just have a pitch in their voice that makes them impossible to hear properly. Not their fault, but its so frustrating to get a phone call and have to continually ask people to repeat until they get frustrated and hang up or say, I'll tell your wife later. I know that the programing of the hearing aid is also a big factor. Believe me when I say, its not a science at all. I have had professional exams and tuning and my best hearing device came from a friend who gave me his old hearing aids, tuned to his needs, when he got new ones. They have given me the best all around hearing aid.

[Dog_Folks]

peaches&cream wrote:

Dog Folks wrote:

CavemanCharlie wrote:
I didn't read all 4 pages of this thread. I agree that it was terribly rude and I don't do that.

Actually, I can't think of anything to say on a phone for that long. I have a hard time keeping up a conversation in person for that long.

That being said when on a cell phone I do talk LOUD. It encourages the other person to talk loud also and I can't hear on cell phones. I'm not sure if it's the small ear piece or the fact that the sound is digital. I have the volume on my cell phone turned all the way up and I still have a hard time hearing it unless I'm in a quiet place. On my old home phones that have a cord and a receiver that is built in a cone shape so you can actually put it to your ear I have no problem. But, a cell phone? Forget it. Might as well be using 2 tin cans with a piece of string between.

I have the exact same problem. Found out that the speaker phone function works well as far as hearing. If the call is in public my wife answers the phone.

If your wife can hear over the phone you cannot, reckon you need a hearing test? :S

Possibly,but my wife is also 5 years younger than I am. 2. If you cannot find a way to communicate with me.....Too bad, your loss.

Edison did very well being completely deaf, I'll get by too.

[peaches_cream]

Dog Folks wrote:

CavemanCharlie wrote:
I didn't read all 4 pages of this thread. I agree that it was terribly rude and I don't do that.

Actually, I can't think of anything to say on a phone for that long. I have a hard time keeping up a conversation in person for that long.

That being said when on a cell phone I do talk LOUD. It encourages the other person to talk loud also and I can't hear on cell phones. I'm not sure if it's the small ear piece or the fact that the sound is digital. I have the volume on my cell phone turned all the way up and I still have a hard time hearing it unless I'm in a quiet place. On my old home phones that have a cord and a receiver that is built in a cone shape so you can actually put it to your ear I have no problem. But, a cell phone? Forget it. Might as well be using 2 tin cans with a piece of string between.

I have the exact same problem. Found out that the speaker phone function works well as far as hearing. If the call is in public my wife answers the phone.

If your wife can hear over the phone you cannot, reckon you need a hearing test? :S

[CavemanCharlie]

NJRVer wrote:

CavemanCharlie wrote:
I didn't read all 4 pages of this thread. I agree that it was terribly rude and I don't do that.

Actually, I can't think of anything to say on a phone for that long. I have a hard time keeping up a conversation in person for that long.

That being said when on a cell phone I do talk LOUD. It encourages the other person to talk loud also and I can't hear on cell phones. I'm not sure if it's the small ear piece or the fact that the sound is digital. I have the volume on my cell phone turned all the way up and I still have a hard time hearing it unless I'm in a quiet place. On my old home phones that have a cord and a receiver that is built in a cone shape so you can actually put it to your ear I have no problem. But, a cell phone? Forget it. Might as well be using 2 tin cans with a piece of string between.

I read an article last week from a guy who was a retired scientist for the old Bell system. He said the sound quality on today's cell phones is equivalent to the sound quality of the old "Candle Stick" phones from the early 1930's.
A Candle Stick phone is the old phone where you held the earpiece up to your ear in one hand and held the held the mouthpiece to talk into in the other hand.

I have the same problem. Sound quality is so horrible, most times you can't understand what the other person is saying.
And we pay a premium for that!

I believe it. I still can't get my younger friends trained to call me on my landline when they know I'm at home. They are so "Cell Phone" trained that many of them are shocked to learn that I even have a land line. They didn't think they existed any more. I think in some places they don't. After that last big hurricane on the east coast I heard that they were not going to rebuild the landline service out there. It's a shame really.

[CavemanCharlie]

Dog Folks wrote:

CavemanCharlie wrote:
I didn't read all 4 pages of this thread. I agree that it was terribly rude and I don't do that.

Actually, I can't think of anything to say on a phone for that long. I have a hard time keeping up a conversation in person for that long.

That being said when on a cell phone I do talk LOUD. It encourages the other person to talk loud also and I can't hear on cell phones. I'm not sure if it's the small ear piece or the fact that the sound is digital. I have the volume on my cell phone turned all the way up and I still have a hard time hearing it unless I'm in a quiet place. On my old home phones that have a cord and a receiver that is built in a cone shape so you can actually put it to your ear I have no problem. But, a cell phone? Forget it. Might as well be using 2 tin cans with a piece of string between.

I have the exact same problem. Found out that the speaker phone function works well as far as hearing. If the call is in public my wife answers the phone.

Yup, the speaker phone function helps. But, as you discovered, in public that doesn't work so well.

[NJRVer]

CavemanCharlie wrote:
I didn't read all 4 pages of this thread. I agree that it was terribly rude and I don't do that.

Actually, I can't think of anything to say on a phone for that long. I have a hard time keeping up a conversation in person for that long.

That being said when on a cell phone I do talk LOUD. It encourages the other person to talk loud also and I can't hear on cell phones. I'm not sure if it's the small ear piece or the fact that the sound is digital. I have the volume on my cell phone turned all the way up and I still have a hard time hearing it unless I'm in a quiet place. On my old home phones that have a cord and a receiver that is built in a cone shape so you can actually put it to your ear I have no problem. But, a cell phone? Forget it. Might as well be using 2 tin cans with a piece of string between.

I read an article last week from a guy who was a retired scientist for the old Bell system. He said the sound quality on today's cell phones is equivalent to the sound quality of the old "Candle Stick" phones from the early 1930's.
A Candle Stick phone is the old phone where you held the earpiece up to your ear in one hand and held the held the mouthpiece to talk into in the other hand.

I have the same problem. Sound quality is so horrible, most times you can't understand what the other person is saying.
And we pay a premium for that!

[Dog_Folks]

CavemanCharlie wrote:
I didn't read all 4 pages of this thread. I agree that it was terribly rude and I don't do that.

Actually, I can't think of anything to say on a phone for that long. I have a hard time keeping up a conversation in person for that long.

That being said when on a cell phone I do talk LOUD. It encourages the other person to talk loud also and I can't hear on cell phones. I'm not sure if it's the small ear piece or the fact that the sound is digital. I have the volume on my cell phone turned all the way up and I still have a hard time hearing it unless I'm in a quiet place. On my old home phones that have a cord and a receiver that is built in a cone shape so you can actually put it to your ear I have no problem. But, a cell phone? Forget it. Might as well be using 2 tin cans with a piece of string between.

I have the exact same problem. Found out that the speaker phone function works well as far as hearing. If the call is in public my wife answers the phone.