Feb 06 2009
How to deal with an obnoxiously loud cell-phone user
There is someone on my floor that is obnoxiously loud on his cellphone. I am not exaggerating when I say that I feel like a part of his conversations even though he’s ten feet down the hallway and my door is closed. After four or five of these conversations, I politely asked him to move down another 10-15 feet and let me sleep. He said that he couldn’t because he had gotten complaints from the other side of the hall, too, and he didn’t want to go into the stairwell because the echoes were too bad. (Boohoohoo).
After another week of suffering through plodding descriptions of his bizarre sexual dilemmas and the many internships he’s considering for this summer, it was time for action. I convinced the residents of the floor to play obnoxiously loud music whenever he talks too loud. I’ve only had to play the 1986 Transformers theme twice. Problem solved.
