Posts Tagged headphones
Stumble and Bob
This happened to a friend of mine about 10 years ago or so, but it’s worth posting. He was on a bus in South Minneapolis on his way to a job interview when a stumbling drunk of a man pulls himself onto the bus, swings around on the pole and sits down w/o paying. The [...]
Kid gets STD from…
I was listening to this older women telling/complaining to the driver how all these kids who share dirty headphones on those music devices is what is causing the spread of STD’s and AIDS and other diseases. She thought all the music companies should provide wipes to clean off the headphones as people share them. I [...]
Don’t be so shy
I have been riding the bus since I was 13. I’m 19 now, and the buses were weird then, and are still weird now. But seeing as it’s my main way of transportation, I try to keep my headphones on, and avoid eye contact as much as possible.
Survival Tips
I am a frequent user of public transportation and can offer the novice rider some survival tips.
Music for everyone
Somehow my ipod decided to delete all of it’s music. Fortunately for me, on this morning’s bus ride the guy sitting to my left was blasting his headphones loud enough that I got to enjoy almost all of disc 1 of Tupac’s “All Eyez on Me.” I’m not being sarcastic, I actually enjoyed it. My [...]
Massive Loogie
This happened several years ago, but I remember it very clearly. I was listening to my headphones when I heard a loud hacking sound (loud enough to cut into Foo Fighter’s Monkey wrench at full blast). The guy in front of me then opened his window and spit. I wish that’s where it ended, but [...]
