Not rude at all

These people have a 90% chance of being sleazy narcissists (by the way, talking about blasting music in public).

In the case I know, it because they refuse to acknowledge they're half deaf from working loud machinery their whole life.

Cause the traffic is loud af and I can't hear shit the other is saying!
And texting takes forever (texting is for chitchat, calling is to seal the deal) so unless I happen to have my earphone or the world suddenly goes mute, you'll just gotta put up with my loud call (that's usually less than 30 seconds so it's not that bad)

Some of us can't here, Patrick.