Examples Of 'The Loudest Voice In The Room Is Usually The Dumbest'

When wanting to be heard backfires.

Stranger In A Strange Land

"When someone thinks that shouting in English at a person who does not speak English will help them understand more. 🤦🏼♀️"

– Charlotte-Milf

Family Talk

"IMMEDIATELY thought of my partner's uncle when I read the post title. He speaks at 110% volume all the time and needs a diaper wrapped around his chin to catch all the sh*t he dribbles out."

– canisaureaux

Not The Brightest

"He who laughs last laughs best. But he may get a reputation for being a little slow on the uptake."

– jackneefus

"He who laughs last, obviously didn’t get the joke."

– Excellent_Recipe240

People can be so unpleasant.

The Worst Kind Of Customer

"Anyone who has ever worked retail or a customer facing position will understand this. You as an employee have next to no power over anything apart from a bit of product knowledge to learning the basics of returns/exchanges. Any person who has worked in one of these positions can almost always count on at least once a week being faced with a colossal, screaming idiot who will fight tooth and nail over the most idiotic minutia when they are dead wrong. I don't know if it stems from a need to be correct (narcissism) or from just plain stupidity that they can never concede in a fight, but it is at least a weekly occurrence in retail."

"My most recent example was when my partner and I were in Muji, an Asian-themed home goods and clothing store. The ambience of these stores are super chill, with diffusers going, soft music, and so on. As we were coming in a woman was losing her mind on the cashier because a pair of socks scanned up at let's call it $10 when they should have been $8. Numbers are made up because this was a month or so ago. She is arguing impressively that these socks scanned up wrong and they should be free."

The cashier has the 'wut' look on her face and is calmly explaining, that no, she can get a refund for the difference. This lady was not having it, seemingly pulling what she believed was the ultimate trump card, she shouted 'well other stores have policies where they give you the wrong scanned item for free!'. The cashier again, without a breaking a sweat said 'well, that isn't our policy. I can either refund you the difference, refund you the whole thing, or you keep it as it is.' This loop went on for much longer than it had to before the angry customer relented, visibly disturbed that this made-up policy did not exist at Muji.I will add that she was talking/yelling so that the entire store could hear, of course, instead of calmy discussing the issue and taking the solution like a normal adult."

– MADEUPDINOSAURFACTS

​Unsatisfied Constituent

"You know the weirdos that show up at town hall meetings? Those voices."

– Leeser

"There's a sign at Ramsett Park that says, 'Do not drink the sprinkler water,' so I made sun tea with it and now I have an infection."

– I_might_be_weasel

Losing arguments is not an option.

Default Noise Level

"My ex-husband. We couldn't discuss anything."

"His answer to every problem was just to scream over me until he got his way."

– Bebe_Bleau

Loudest Side Of The Family

"On my father's side of the family, it's somehow common practice that the one who speaks loudest has the right to speak. Was much worse with my aunt, now that her and my dad aren't talking anymore it's less people. But i still don't always get to chip in on conversations with everyone, i can talk loudly but not as loud as my dad or my grandpa. When my aunt and her husband were there, i had even less of a chance to speak. Plus It's incredibly tiring and just annoyingly loud when everyone tries to be louder than the others and talks over each other... Now i catch myself not saying anything even when I could because I'm so used to just not speaking when everyone is there."

– mycrazyblackcat

The Internet Can Be A Loud Place

"Finding out everyone on the internet is suddenly an expert in the operation, design, and recovery of deep submergence vehicles has certainly been an eye-opener."

– ExpectedBehaviour

I was driving a vanpool late at night after work and after dropping my co-workers off, I pulled into a gas station to avoid doing filling up the tank the next morning.

I just went straight to the available pump, but apparently, there was another vehicle waiting for the pump I pulled up next to.

The driver exited from her vehicle, totally irate, and started yelling at me but very slowly and over-enunciating the words, "This was supposed to be mine. I was here first!" I'm Japanese American, but I guess I looked like a foreigner to her.

First of all, I had no idea I cut in front of her at a not-so-busy gas station at 1:30 a.m., and I was too exhausted for a confrontation.

So I played the part and spoke back to her in fluent Japanese, mouthing off about what I had for lunch or something because it didn't matter.

She stormed off and muttered an ethnic slur.

In retrospect, I don't know why I didn't explain to her that I wasn't aware she was waiting for the pump. I just wanted to get home.

Thanks and goodnight.