MONTANA Brown has left people raging after revealing her row with a “very strange” woman in M&S.
The former Love Islander regularly sparks controversy with her posts on social media, and did it again as she admitted one of her habits had left a fellow shopper fuming.
Montana said she was “minding her own business” while shopping, and was having a “really, really gorgeous conversation” with a friend as she did so.
“Basically, I don’t like holding the phone next to my ear,” she explained in a video on her TikTok page.
“So I just was holding it and she was on speaker.”
She insisted she didn’t have it on “full volume”, but it was “loud enough” that she could hear it.
“So I’m walking around, I’ve got my trolley,” Montana continued.
“And I can kind of see my peripherals that this lady’s like following me.”
She initially thought that she knew the lady, but then realised she didn’t – and couldn’t understand what was “going on”.
Then, the woman approached Montana and told her to “use your ears”.
When Montana said that she didn’t understand, the woman then repeated: “You need to use your AirPods for your ears.
“Because not all of us want to hear your conversation.”
However, she claimed the woman was actually “eavesdropping” and “following” her around the supermarket.
“I was like, you’re actually following me, listening to my conversation,” Montana raged.
“It was like very, very strange.
“And then I just said, I was like, can you just not let it bother you? Like I’m just chatting to my friend.
“Very strange behaviour.”
Montana went on to say it reminded her of the book The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k.
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As she said she gave the situation “zero of my energy”, because she had “zero energy to be battling this old woman over my phone conversation”.
She asked for people’s opinions on the argument, with her followers quickly obliging.
“Totally agree with the lady – it’s so rude and annoying when people have their phone on speaker in public,” one sighed.
“Have to agree with the lady to be fair on this one…” another added.
“Nope, does my absolute head in when people are on loudspeaker in public,” a third wrote.
“It’s not the same as having a conversation with someone next to you, both parties speak louder than when having a normal conversation and the volume of the phone of the person on the other end is naturally louder than when speaking in person.
“Just use headphones / AirPods etc or put the phone to your ear.”
“Get wireless headphones. Loudspeaker in public is rude,” a third agreed.
But others defended Montana, with one arguing: “How is it any different from having a conversation with someone right next to you?
“I also don’t want to have a phone up against my face and ear.
“I won’t be obnoxious with it and only have it on a volume I can hear and will speak in lower tone, but like, it would be louder if the person was right next to me so why are people so bothered?
“MIND YA OWN BUSINESS!”
“Why are people so bothered about what people do?” another agreed.
“I don’t see any problem in having the call on speaker!”
“Why do people find others talking on their phone in public so annoying?” a third commented.
“If you were in the shop with your friend talking would she say anything. It seems very strange.”
