Anna Perenna
New member
Man. I got the public transport blues.
I am on a long train ride to the Blue Mountains right now. This should be a pleasant experience spent reading and enjoying the scenery but an inconsiderate guy has forgotten his headphones and is watching a movie really loudly on his laptop. I can't read my book while that tinny sound is bothering me. But I'm too 'polite' (read: pathetic) to ask him to turn it off.
In fact, everyone around him is irritated, it's an eye rolling / sighing party in here. But he is oblivious and we are all too trapped by our fear of confrontation to try to do something to end this.
I feel like Michael Douglas in Falling Down. I understand why he snapped.
I'm not even going to go into my bad luck with arm-rest hogs on planes because I just want to post this.
What would you do in my situation?
I am on a long train ride to the Blue Mountains right now. This should be a pleasant experience spent reading and enjoying the scenery but an inconsiderate guy has forgotten his headphones and is watching a movie really loudly on his laptop. I can't read my book while that tinny sound is bothering me. But I'm too 'polite' (read: pathetic) to ask him to turn it off.
In fact, everyone around him is irritated, it's an eye rolling / sighing party in here. But he is oblivious and we are all too trapped by our fear of confrontation to try to do something to end this.
I feel like Michael Douglas in Falling Down. I understand why he snapped.
I'm not even going to go into my bad luck with arm-rest hogs on planes because I just want to post this.
What would you do in my situation?
