It's been awhile since we've contributed to our series on asshole subway riders. I was beginning to think some strange Lost-like time shift happened and all the morons I used to ride the Q and B with were sent back in time and actually raised right by their parents. HA! Thankfully I came across this douchebag on the Q this morning, who snapped me out of my optimistic fantasy world and brought me back to reality.This dude got on at Cortelyou and proudly blasted the shitty noise from his PSP all the way into Manhattan. It's annoying enough when people have their iPods turned up so much that you can hear last year's Beyonce song seeping out of their headphones from 20 feet away. But when assholes like this guy get on the train blasting their PSP at full volume with no headphones and pretend like there's nothing wrong with broadcasting garbled techno video game background music that's just not okay.
It's entirely possible that this guy isn't an asshole at all. He might just be dumb. It wasn't like he was playing Brain Age 2 on Nintendo DS. He was playing some awful knock-off version of Street Fighter. So in addition to the annoying music blaring out of his headphones we were treated to random bursts of "Fight him now!" and "Get him down!" Ugh. I guess a lack of intelligence would help explain this guy's nonchalance about the increasingly angered glares thrown his way by his fellow passengers. If he had the slightest bit of common sense he'd realize that muddled rave music is the last thing groggy people want to hear on their morning commute. I've never wanted "Show some manners" guy on my train more.
3 comments:
How about people who wear headphones and sing along at a normal volume so your train ride accompaniment is only a vocal track with no auto-tuning. I'm pretty sure they think someone on the train might be a talent scout thinking, "Oh wow, that guy is really good!"
I agree this was annoying, however, it feels a little creepy that you had the need to publish his face on the blog like that.
Catwoman,
I understand your point, but I kind of feel like when you piss off a subway car full of people who mostly just want a quiet commute into work, you give up your right to privacy.
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