Phonecalls in public

I was at Ampang Park LRT Station earlier, waiting to catch a train after a long day at work.
So I sitting on the available seat in the station, trying to read a couple pages of "SleepyHead" when this one girl sat down beside me. OK so that was fine with me. It's not my property lah, anyone can go ahead and sit, right?

She whipped out her mobile phone from her bag. And punched some numbers.

Suddenly I can hear a man's voice saying a loud "Hello" from the girl's phone. I stared at her in disbelieve - and cannot imagine why would anyone want to turn up the SPEAKER on their mobile phone in a VERY public place!

This girl actually carried on her conversation with the other person, over the SPEAKER, for the next 1-2 minutes (hmm.. probably it was a 20-30 seconds' call, but when you're unwillingly listening to a phonecall, it definitely felt longer.)

Hello..? Did she seriously think she's the only one in KL who has a mobile phone with speaker? And I did NOT want to know about your conversation with whoever on the line.. I don't care to know what time that whoever wants to fetch you OK.

Arghh.. what is it with this girl? I wonder where's her common sense. If she was in a group of girls, I would understand her need to turn the speaker on - and everyone would be very excited to talk all at once.

But I she was alone.

Hmm, probably she was afraid of the strangers all around her in the LRT Station. So she turned on the speaker phone to... bond with everyone within hearing distance? To tell everyone who cared (or didn't care, but was forced to hear due to proximity - read: me) that she's got someone waiting for her at her destination - so don't bother making a pass at her?

I don't get it. I seriously don't.

I don't know what was her real purpose, but one thing's for sure: I definitely was irritated, and that made me decide to squeeze in the next LRT - in case she decided to make ANOTHER call with her speaker volume turned up loud.