I’m sat in my house, working, and am suddenly aware that I can hear a conversation. Not every word, but I can hear a conversation going on, like a boomy amplified noise. I go outside, and quite a way away from my house is a bloke sat in his car having a conversation on the speakers in his car, so loud you can hear it all down the street. I look at him, and he doesn’t do or say anything, so I fairly gently tell him that I can hear his conversation inside my house which is a fair way away. He looks at me as if I’ve shat on his head, and carries on. So, and I’m not proud of this, but it worked, I bellow “turn it down” and it has now gone down. Is this normal? Am I a dinosaur? Do we conduct conversations at concert level volume now in our parked cars? What gets me isn’t the noise, tbh if he’d said “sorry mate didn’t realise it was so loud” I wouldn’t have cared, but it was just the sheer shock at how put out he was that I dared to point out just how loud his conversation was. These type of interactions seem so much more common these days.. am I a grumpy old bastard or are people just mind-blowingly self-absorbed? I should add that he was/is waiting for school to finish and is picking up a child, this seems to lower people’s IQs in the same way as supermarket car parks do.. a thesis should surely be done on this.