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Originally Posted by asianthree
Sadly we have many who are hard of hearing in TV. We just had 3 new neighbors moved in two of which spend hours, yelling into their phone.
This week our neighbor 4 houses down, who is retired IRS, mentioned how clear he could hear their conversations. We have ponds, and prairie behind houses, so sounds really can travel. Today he made a visit welcoming the two new neighbors.
Then politely gave each of them a paper with their social security numbers, and credit card numbers. They were shocked, their voices carried so far, and clearly that anyone could have written down their personal info during phone calls, they made in their lanai.
Fair warning, be careful while outside when giving out your info during a phone call, someone may not be so honest.
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Some car’s cell phone calls can also be clearly overheard outside of the car when talking hands-free over the car’s radio. We used that to sometimes play embarrassing tricks on our teenagers. For example, when picking them up from school we loudly say something fantastically fabricated that we knew they wouldn’t want their peers to hear like “yeah Grandma I’m picking up Johnny right now. ok. I’ll tell him to be sure to wear clean underwear tomorrow :0