Speaker Phones

I know several people who use their speaker phones most of the time. They seem to think that this makes them special somehow. Thirty years ago only the rich and powerful had a speaker phone, but nowadays almost all phones have this capability.

When I am talking with someone who is using a speaker phone I hear all the background noise in their environment, the lady on their GPS telling them what to do, etc. In fact THEY become rather hard to understand.

Here is my advice: If multiple people need to hear the person on the other end of a phone conversation, then turn on the speaker phone. But if you think that what you have to say has any importance at all, and you want the party on the other end to be able to hear you, then shut your speaker phone off.

On the other hand, if you think that you are just going on-and-on, babbling completely useless trash, and you love to hear the sound of your own voice, then keep that speaker phone on. I’ll turn mine on too, and neither one of us will be able to hear the other party. So rather than holding a conversation and engaging in communication, we will just be speaking at each other…kind of like the politicians do.
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