why do so many truckers wear headphones?

What is it about Hispanic and Indian people and phone conversations on the crapper? If they don't have a blue tooth, then they're on speaker phone speaking their native language. It drives me crazy listening to them.

 

I thought the 'fashion accessory' is exactly what some do?
Now on the crapper. That's where the blue parrot really shines with it's blocking background noise.

 

I'm not sure why someone would assume that someone else is wearing a headset as a form of fashion accessory. If someone has a headset on and isn't taking on it they may well be expecting a call or may have just ended one. Those headsets don't fit readily in a pocket, so it stays on the head until you get back to the truck, unless you are worried about some business busy body asking you if are a fast food worker.

 

Why would a person be out walking around talking on the phone? Holding a phone conversation with in ear shot of others in a public space is as rude as it gets. Leave the blue tooth in the truck where it belongs

 

The boss is almost as bad as the wife. Who is almost as bad as a broker. Get the idea? They call, you must take it now.

 

This is a problem that transcends cell phones and bluetooth. I'm very sensitive to it. I sometimes get tired of hearing other people airing out their family or spouses dirty laundry while I am trying have a peaceful lunch. One reason when I am dining alone I have my bluetooth headphones on playing classical music.

I will repeat a story here though that till this day I think is funny. Sometime around 2000 I was sitting at a TS dining counter when this guy came in with one of those pre bluetooth wired cell phone ear pieces on. he sit and started in on a long conversation. About 15 minutes later an old hand tapped him on the shoulder and told him his earpiece had come unplugged. It got real quiet for a moment, then all hell broke out as we all started laughing. To this day when I hear someone (talking) on one I wonder hmmmmmmmmm-------

 

Holding a conversation in public is not rude unless it's disruptive or otherwise interferes with the business of others, and that applies equally to conversations with other people physically present or over the phone. There's no real reason to consider it otherwise.

 

I don't think it is all about (conversations) alone. I'm OK with banter, that has been a part of Americana for years. A conversation does not necessarily have to be disruptive either. Context is the important thing. Example. I could have a political conversation either pro Trump or Anti Trump, be speaking in general volume level and just as sure as I am writing this my friend and I are going to set somebody off. To be honest I sometime wince when these conversations start. I guess what I am trying to say is there are things that should be discussed in private. When conversations that should be in private or at greatly reduced volume are openly spoken they can be disruptive and I have seen fights. I was sitting at a place with a friend just the other day when two woman were talking rather loud about their monthly cycles. Both of us kind of got finished a bit early and left. I'm not going to try to say all public conversations are rude, because their not. However high volumes and improper conversation topics in my opinion are.

 

Does that mean that you don't carry on any conversation in any public place? You don't talk to your wife in public?