I will rip those Earbuds out of your head, iPod loser
March 25th 2009 05:26
I try to keep up on the latest technology, because life is deserving of enhancements. Having cash and the ability to buy gadgets and experience communications media is all good. You listening to that iPod is not good. I'm so sorry, but if I see another person listening to their iPod in public, I'm going to get violent.
Twice lately I have seen iPod abuse so disturbing, that we Walkman users of the 1960's can hardly conceive it.
Number one, most heinous offence, listening to the iPod in class. I teach ESL at a private University. Most of my students have more spending cash than I do, and more than half have iPods.
Don't ask me how I would know, because God knows every living student should be entrhalled by my current discussion of "Count" and "Non-count nouns." But there is a small percentage of my ESL class who are perfectly fluent in English. I understand that they are sometimes bored. But if you pull out the earbuds in my class, then you had better be listening to Mozart or the White Album, or something equally inspiring. Because I'm sorely tempted to rip those earbuds out of your ears. Do you think that I don't have better things to listen to than myself, drone on about business correspondence? I would also like to listen to some tunes, but instead, I'm standing on a raised platform in semi-casual trying to transmit my knowledge. Record my lecture and play that back on your iPod.
The second most heinous iPod infraction -- no make that the first. Above students listening to Daddy Yankee in my class. Travelers with their iPods.
I saw a couple in the supermarket the other day. They were sticking out . . . this is Latin America, conservative tropical, and lots of hispanics, and these were two young blond scraggly looking kids, what we would kindly call "Backpackers." Late 20's. God knows, they might have been on the road for many months and this whole thing is boring now, but these two (european or North American, dare i say Gringos), were obviously not from here.
Being not from here myself, I noticed, also being behind them in the check out line of the supermarket.
Let's call him Franz, the European Boy, had his iPod and his earbuds firmly connected to both of his auricular receivers. Mitzi, the girl, was doing the shopping. She would occassionally make a comment to Franz, in some European language, that was, presumably, about the shopping.
Franz would then remove one earbud and ask her to repeat what she just said. And she would do that. It did not seem to bother the girl at all that this man was listening to his iPod while she was shopping in the third world. She would patiently repeat her observations after Franz was able to stop listening to tunes for her.
Now see, this is the reason I would never be invited to travel anywhere, with anyone, and more than one man has called me insuffereable. But, if you are anywhere with me in Central America, listening to iPod while I'm trying to talk, the next time to remove that earbud, you will hear a litany of your worst and most vile sins and bodily functions, described in detail and disfavorably to anyone within earshot.
Long story short, if you have so much great music on your iPod that you can't stop listening even while you're traveling, you should stay in Europe.
I will pull the plug
Twice lately I have seen iPod abuse so disturbing, that we Walkman users of the 1960's can hardly conceive it.
Number one, most heinous offence, listening to the iPod in class. I teach ESL at a private University. Most of my students have more spending cash than I do, and more than half have iPods.
Don't ask me how I would know, because God knows every living student should be entrhalled by my current discussion of "Count" and "Non-count nouns." But there is a small percentage of my ESL class who are perfectly fluent in English. I understand that they are sometimes bored. But if you pull out the earbuds in my class, then you had better be listening to Mozart or the White Album, or something equally inspiring. Because I'm sorely tempted to rip those earbuds out of your ears. Do you think that I don't have better things to listen to than myself, drone on about business correspondence? I would also like to listen to some tunes, but instead, I'm standing on a raised platform in semi-casual trying to transmit my knowledge. Record my lecture and play that back on your iPod.
The second most heinous iPod infraction -- no make that the first. Above students listening to Daddy Yankee in my class. Travelers with their iPods.
I saw a couple in the supermarket the other day. They were sticking out . . . this is Latin America, conservative tropical, and lots of hispanics, and these were two young blond scraggly looking kids, what we would kindly call "Backpackers." Late 20's. God knows, they might have been on the road for many months and this whole thing is boring now, but these two (european or North American, dare i say Gringos), were obviously not from here.
Being not from here myself, I noticed, also being behind them in the check out line of the supermarket.
Let's call him Franz, the European Boy, had his iPod and his earbuds firmly connected to both of his auricular receivers. Mitzi, the girl, was doing the shopping. She would occassionally make a comment to Franz, in some European language, that was, presumably, about the shopping.
Franz would then remove one earbud and ask her to repeat what she just said. And she would do that. It did not seem to bother the girl at all that this man was listening to his iPod while she was shopping in the third world. She would patiently repeat her observations after Franz was able to stop listening to tunes for her.
Now see, this is the reason I would never be invited to travel anywhere, with anyone, and more than one man has called me insuffereable. But, if you are anywhere with me in Central America, listening to iPod while I'm trying to talk, the next time to remove that earbud, you will hear a litany of your worst and most vile sins and bodily functions, described in detail and disfavorably to anyone within earshot.
Long story short, if you have so much great music on your iPod that you can't stop listening even while you're traveling, you should stay in Europe.
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