So I took the express train from the airport to Haifa this morning. Despite being surrounded by all my heavy luggage, the ride was actually quite comfortable, and the view of the seaside and countryside going by was great.
Halfway through the quiet 60-minute ride, I hear music from the seat behind me. At first I thought it is just someone's song ringtone, but the song keeps playing in full....then another song starts, then another. Someone was listening to music outloud! How rude! (It was definitely too loud to just be leaking from someone's headphones.)
Everyone else on the train (except me) had iPods or mp3 players with headphones, so I guess they didn't notice the noise. But I sure did. Honestly, the music would not have been so bad, but the songs playing were some sort of bad cross between Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi and Barney.
Anyway, then suddenly I hear a newscast or something from behind me. This person was now watching TV outloud! WTF!
I thought that if you didn't have headphones with which to listen to music, radio, TV on your phone, proper etiquette is to not listen to it at all (or at least on a very low volume.) So this lady behind me apparently missed the etiquette memo.
But when it was my train stop, I took a glance behind me, and I was wrong about her listening to music/TV on her phone. She literally had an FM radio and mini-TV with her on the train!
Anyway, the whole episode didn't really bother me. (As usual, my first thought was 'I need to post this on the blog.') But it was pretty funny (in my humble opinion.)
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