You had to love the doofus on the 6:10 yesterday who prefaced two of the loudest cellphone conversations I’ve ever witnessed with “THIS IS CONFIDENTIAL!” He was a bald guy in round-rim specs and a pinstriped suit, and had everyone within shouting distance listening to his “confidential” conversations, which involved trying to sell medical gear to hospitals like NYU Med and St. Vincent’s.
The weird thing was, the guy had actually moved to the standing area of the train to make the calls, as if to spare his neighbors the agita of having to listen to his business dealings. Thus liberated, he then proceeded to include close to a hundred people to his highly classified conversations. At least half of them tried hard, angry stares to get him to lower the volume, but he was too immersed in negotiations.