Loud Phone Notifications Bothered Literally Everyone but Mom
BENTONVILLE, OHIO — 51-year-old mother, Brenda Hendricks, was reportedly unfazed by her loud iPhone notifications while she sat in a local dentist office this morning, leaving many witnesses, including her own teenaged children, annoyed and completely over it. The first notification came around 9:57 AM when Hendricks received a call that caused her iPhone, which was on its loudest volume setting, to blaringly ring for all those within the building and adjacent parking lot to hear. The local mother — who allegedly has perfectly adequate hearing — began to calmly and very slowly look for her phone in her purse. As disturbing as this was, many at the scene were left flabbergasted when Hendricks finally found her phone and instead of immediately turning the ringer off, she — with no sense of urgency — looked to see who was calling before she finally decided to answer.
It is still unclear whether Hendricks was aware that she could turn the ringer off without answering the phone. Regardless, real damage had been done. The time between the first ring and Hendricks answering was reported to be anywhere from 8 to an alarming 16 seconds. Many tried to cut their eyes and sigh heavily to signal to Hendricks that she should quickly do whatever necessary to turn the ringer off so everyone could continue to scroll through their phones in silence. Unfortunately their efforts were to no avail.
Hendricks, seemingly oblivious to the atmosphere of extreme exasperation she caused, then proceeded to engage in a texting conversation starting around 10:03 AM that caused a “ping” sound to go off approximately every 45 seconds. That scene lasted for several minutes causing many witnesses to silently mouth to one another in solidarity, “are you f-cking kidding me?” A brave receptionist, Laura Hicks, eventually intervened and said, “Dr. Johnson will see you in the next room, Mrs. Hendricks.” There were no reported deaths, though both of Hendricks’ daughters claimed they could have “literally died.”
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