• Lorindól@sopuli.xyz
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      8 months ago

      A few years ago I regularly took the same morning bus to work. There was this maybe 16-17 year old kid who sat on the back and would listen obnoxious rap at full volume on his phone, while hogging the whole seat row with his stuff.

      I had my headphones on but the hideous rap blared so loud I couldn’t hear anything else. In my country we rarely interfere with other people’s business, everyone was just sitting tight looking pissed off.

      After few minutes I stood up, walked to the kid and told him to either turn that shit off, use headphones like everyone else or I’d throw his phone out at the next stop. He looked at me for a moment completely dumbfounded but turned the noise off and left the bus at the next stop.

      He never took the same bus again.

  • halvar@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    I’ve been scrolling through this c/ and I’ve gotten this far down, I’m basically doing the same. I think I’ll stop now.

  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Counterpoint:

    I got on the bus today, and there was this grumpy old guy complaining loudly to the lady in front of him about pronouns.
    She was clearly trying to ignore him by pretending to read a book.
    He looked up at me and scowled, but he stopped talking.
    So I sat down next to him and opened TikTok.
    He couldn’t help but be nosy and was staring at my phone, so I picked the most obnoxious videos.
    Each time he would show interest, I would flip to the next one.
    I’m sure it was annoying, but at least he shut the fuck up for the rest of the ride.