No need for a mike

Our Mission House in Livingstone in which I live now is situated beside the main road on which we have so many cars and the people moving everyday. Also at night the number of people passing is quite big. Everything would be okay if they were just walking and talking. Naturally the Zambian people are very friendly and social, so they cannot just walk  beside one another without narrating many stories, at times heard already many times before. Sometimes I wonder if they need so many listeners to listen to their stories. Why? They cannot talk normally, they shout, as they were talking through microphone, that all the people around may hear their stories and admire them. They do not need microphone. I am a forced listener. During the day time there is not so much problem, but at night these stories quite often wake me up. And when I am almost sleep after that story, the next story comes..  Cell phones are here very popular, when someone starts talking on the street then there is lots of fun, especially when he talks with his girlfriend, and forgets that others may listen to him.  So here they do not need microphones.