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Is there a cut-off age where one no longer understands that if someone is wearing a pair of headphones they are most likely listening to something and probably do not want to be bothereed and very likely cannot hear you anyways?
I ask this because, after a LONG time, I have a brand new phone from my cell company that has a 1 gigabyte memory card to hold music files. It comes with nifty earbuds and I have been enjoying the music in my headphones as so many of you have written about before on this forum.
I have had it for a week now and it never ever fails, when someone older than around age 40 sees me they say hi and start talking even though they can see that I have headphones on andthere is a wire leading to the phone in my pocket. IT ANNOYS ME NO END.
I am not listening to it while others are around. I am talking on my lunch break, sitting eating my lunch a nd reading the paper, people just start regaling me with fucking tales of shit I do not want to know about nor give a flying fuck about. This happens even after I pull out my earbud and tell them "sorry, I did not hear you. i am listening to music." as soon as I put the earbud back in they start talking again!
People younger than around 35 say hi, notice I have headphones and leave me be once I say hi back.
Walkmen (portable cassette players for you little baby sonic fans out there) were around starting in the very early 80's. I know these fuckers know what they are. why do they not leave me alone? shit.
It is bad enough when someone interrupted me before when I was OBVIOUSLY involved in readingthe newspaper, but now I read and listen to music and these fuckers will not quit!
what is your experience with this? is it just old people? or are people just blind and they do not notice the earphones? shit. it is driving me crazy.
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