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The other day on the tube I did something I'm never normally brave enough to do, which is tell some little shite to turn his mp3 player off. Everybody was visibly irritated by it and I had dutch courage, being on my way back from a drink with geshmally , and I could hear it over my own headphones right at the other end of the carriage, so in the end I lost my rag and marched over and went on full blast: 'see these? They're called HEADPHONES. And when I use them I can still hear your music OVER MINE. Did you ASK anybody if they wanted to listen to your shitty music? Cos NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR IT' [at this moment I mentally thanked a girl from an anecdote of Alison's for this line]
The guy vaguely looked up from his obvious slack-jawed absorption with whatever tinny crap he was listening to, and said something like: '?'
And then, blessing of blessings, the bloke next to him nudged him and said 'she wants you to turn the MUSIC OFF mate.' And then I looked round and saw that EVERYBODY WAS ON MY SIDE. Which is what you need in those situations and I can't stand it when everyone acts all private about it when someone's been an obvious twat. (The only other time I've done this has been south of the river and that was a totally humiliating other story and put me off making a scene almost for life)
He switched the music off. Then my tube stop arrived, thank god because I didn't want to sit there having caused a scene, and as I jumped off I got about twenty thumbs up and winks from the rest of the tube and I felt like a motherfucking hero.
Hooray! Temporarily popular with some strangers on the tube!
We should all do this!
The guy vaguely looked up from his obvious slack-jawed absorption with whatever tinny crap he was listening to, and said something like: '?'
And then, blessing of blessings, the bloke next to him nudged him and said 'she wants you to turn the MUSIC OFF mate.' And then I looked round and saw that EVERYBODY WAS ON MY SIDE. Which is what you need in those situations and I can't stand it when everyone acts all private about it when someone's been an obvious twat. (The only other time I've done this has been south of the river and that was a totally humiliating other story and put me off making a scene almost for life)
He switched the music off. Then my tube stop arrived, thank god because I didn't want to sit there having caused a scene, and as I jumped off I got about twenty thumbs up and winks from the rest of the tube and I felt like a motherfucking hero.
Hooray! Temporarily popular with some strangers on the tube!
We should all do this!