mobiles on buses

An amazing letter in theTimes today. It is nearly half a column long, which is in itself impressive. The correspondent recounts the mobile phone conversation she heard from a bus passenger in the seat behind as to how she the said speaker would be spending that week-end. It lasted half-an hour and was directed to half a dozen different numbers. I am hard of hearing in lower tonal ranges and so have the capacity for selective hearing - useful in some situations - but when I do hear conversations, sermons, instructions of even a minimal length I am hard-pressed to be able to recount what I have heard, let alone remember it all and make a worthwhile letter out of it!