I guess they work

[isomeme]

As we waited an unreasonably long time to disembark from my Atlanta-to-LA flight on Monday evening, I overheard the following conversation several rows behind me.

A: "Are those noise-canceling headphones?"
B: "What?"
A: "Your headphones, are they noise-canceling headphones?"
B: "What?"

Sometimes I feel like I'm living in an improv-comedy sketch.