i feel dumb

at work on friday, i had to make a series of phone calls. for one of these calls the guy had to stand on the other side of the room to perform the specified directions that i asked him to do. to accomplish this he put me on speaker phone. he informed me of this and from that point on in the conversation, i felt compelled to have to speak louder for him to hear me.

after i hung up i realized how dumb this was. that is the point of a speaker phone, there was no need for me to raise my voice.