Have you ever noticed how irritatingly loud it can be in public spaces like restaurants and buses? Perhaps it's just because I'm tired, but I've been finding the morning commute (and often the evening one as well) really annoying. In the morning, when I'm not quite awake and trying to read on the bus, the noise levels are incredible. I suppose that's because it's not just one or two people... it's the whole lot of them in their own separate bubbles ignoring the others...
I suppose that this is mostly because it's filled with teenagers off to high school and they are all so hyper. I think, after this morning, that they don't have a vocabulary that expands beyond the word "like" and "whatever" and in between the ringtones of what seemed like 1000 mobile phones. When I was young, I think I lived by the credo "kids should be seen and not heard". I suppose that way of thinking no longer exists.
It was so bad that I was just milliseconds from standing up and shouting at them to "shut the f*** up". Nevertheless, I managed to make it hear without killing anyone.
Last night, I was also disrupted. For the most part, everyone was very considerate. However, then this couple got on (and no, they were not teenagers) and were arguing with her dad via mobile phone and the guy kept saying he wanted to kill the father and the woman was trying to play go-between and ended up hanging up on the dad. It was ridiculous. Sounds like the woman got a guy just like her idiot father. She kept trying to side with the boyfriend even though he was an angry and inconsiderate man and she just kept trying to please him by telling the guy that even though her dad said all sorts of terrible things about the boyfriend, that she was on his side. Granted, I don't have the old story but this guy appeared to be bordering on abusive and filled the bus with all sorts of obscenities. I wouldn't be surprised if they were both co-dependent.
This reminded me of the other day of something I was thinking while watching one of the annoying "Meet the..." movies starring Ben Stiller and I couldn't imagine why it was funny. If a person has grown up with a control-freak father who tried to control the entire dynamic of a family, then how could one possibly find watching another equally controlling father for two hours even the slightest bit amusing. The saddest thing about this is that the wife and daughter just accepted the behaviour and never called the guy on it. That kind of control is unacceptable and no one should be forced to totally compromise their ideals because one never learned to properly interact with others. In their own way, these two characters had an underlying fear of the man and thus were as dysfunctional as he was. (Don't they call those types of people enablers?) My question, is this kind of dysfunction funny? To me, it isn't.
Okay, I suppose that this has all emerged due to high-pitched voices of teenaged girls and their mobiles on the bus. I'll try to swing this mood around by rising above the cloud in my head and looking at the beautiful day that we're having.
I hope that you all have a great weekend!
I suppose that this is mostly because it's filled with teenagers off to high school and they are all so hyper. I think, after this morning, that they don't have a vocabulary that expands beyond the word "like" and "whatever" and in between the ringtones of what seemed like 1000 mobile phones. When I was young, I think I lived by the credo "kids should be seen and not heard". I suppose that way of thinking no longer exists.
It was so bad that I was just milliseconds from standing up and shouting at them to "shut the f*** up". Nevertheless, I managed to make it hear without killing anyone.
Last night, I was also disrupted. For the most part, everyone was very considerate. However, then this couple got on (and no, they were not teenagers) and were arguing with her dad via mobile phone and the guy kept saying he wanted to kill the father and the woman was trying to play go-between and ended up hanging up on the dad. It was ridiculous. Sounds like the woman got a guy just like her idiot father. She kept trying to side with the boyfriend even though he was an angry and inconsiderate man and she just kept trying to please him by telling the guy that even though her dad said all sorts of terrible things about the boyfriend, that she was on his side. Granted, I don't have the old story but this guy appeared to be bordering on abusive and filled the bus with all sorts of obscenities. I wouldn't be surprised if they were both co-dependent.
This reminded me of the other day of something I was thinking while watching one of the annoying "Meet the..." movies starring Ben Stiller and I couldn't imagine why it was funny. If a person has grown up with a control-freak father who tried to control the entire dynamic of a family, then how could one possibly find watching another equally controlling father for two hours even the slightest bit amusing. The saddest thing about this is that the wife and daughter just accepted the behaviour and never called the guy on it. That kind of control is unacceptable and no one should be forced to totally compromise their ideals because one never learned to properly interact with others. In their own way, these two characters had an underlying fear of the man and thus were as dysfunctional as he was. (Don't they call those types of people enablers?) My question, is this kind of dysfunction funny? To me, it isn't.
Okay, I suppose that this has all emerged due to high-pitched voices of teenaged girls and their mobiles on the bus. I'll try to swing this mood around by rising above the cloud in my head and looking at the beautiful day that we're having.
I hope that you all have a great weekend!
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It looks as if this is never going to end. I went down to the staff room to read a book on my lunch break and despite being the only one there, the conversations out in the hallway were deafening. I suspect this means that I've become irritable and bitch but I wish that I could be out in nature and listening to the sounds of calm rather than the din of youngsters incredibly self-absorbed conversations.
Short of standing in the middle of a crowd screaming, I think I will retire to the forest for a while...
Oh I'm so sorry Lola! Yeah, sometimes it's truly unbearable... Even at my work I need to put on my headphones [only 1 side tho incase my phone rings! heh!]!
Anyway, what about getting a mp3 player? Most times, it helps!
I don't mind the noises around me most of the time - they remind me that I'm alive. I don't use an mp3 player - I don't like to be plugged in - and I don't have a cell phone either. Ever see a couple walking down the road, each talking to someone else on their cell? What's wrong with that picture?
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