Why can't people speak to each other quietly?

[david51058]

Why is it that some people cannot speak to each other quietly? I have noticed it particularly in the recent good weather when people have been sitting out in the garden.
There are some who seem to shout every time they open their mouth. What's wrong with them, are they deaf? It's unneccessary and very common.

[sara3]

I just don't get why an adult doesn't say "be quiet! all the neighbours can hear you, and they don't want to!" my kids certainly never disturbed the neighbours.

but the mother is really loud, and foul-mouthed. there is no hope :o(

[China Doll]

I've got a couple of people in the office like that... I was very tempted to brick one last week. Usually I have quite a good internal background noise filter which comes from a few years working at ladbrokes.

[milly143]

My sister and Dad do this all the time and it drives me barmy. So many times I've asked them if they hadn't realised they are in the same room but it doesn't change anything.

The annoyance for this is on par with my anger for people who shout at each other from different rooms or upstairs/downstairs. If you want to talk to someone, go to them!

[jno]

B00...

"can't think beyond where they're going to get their next can of stella or bottle of white lightening from".

Well, the Co-op, obv, how much thought does that take?

[Robinia]

I've just been talking, quietly of course ;o), about this very subject. After living next door to people for over 20 yrs who I never hardly heard, I can now hear the newbies just talking, especially when there are visitors. It seems to me that people's voices are becoming louder, is it the noisier way we live nowadays? And why, oh why, oh why, oh......do kids have to SCREAM all the time when they're playing??!!

[starone]

Screaming to me denotes fear and when I hear it I have a look to see what it is - usually nothing. But it is a case of crying wolf and one of these days I will not look when it is something bad. But even so, the children will still go on doing it

[ClareA]

By far the worst culprits are men in pubs, aged about 25-40, standing in groups. They're no more than a foot and a half apart, yet shout at each other as though they were a room away. I think it's a dominance (or 'willy waving', as I call it) thing.
And they do that irritating leg-wobbling thing, while standing still. Why do they do that?