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At the gym, in the middle of a set. Some dude just walks over and starts talking to me. I can't understand shit because I've got earbuds in and I can't pause the podcast because I'm too busy holding the weight of a small person above my head. I cut my set short, put down the weights, pause the podcast and apologize, ask him to repeat as I couldn't hear him. Turns out it was just some small talk I never asked for. I politely entertain it for a while then he goes away.

4 minutes later he does the same shit all over again. Seriously some people are fucking clueless.

I wear my headphones doing household chores because I find them really boring and want to entertain myself during it.

DO NOT come to interrupt me. I don't want to stop listening and I sure as heck don't want to go back to the annoying chores after the pointless interruption.

Some of my students act like that. You are in school, put them away!

I get about 2 hours of charge on these, and you're eating into that right now.

I have both earbuds in: don't talk to me.
I have one earbud in: don't talk to me.
I have no earbuds in: don't talk to me.

It's an interesting trend these days, people wearing headphones and earbuds everywhere they go.

It's not my preference, and I get that it's a personal choice.

I agree there are definitely times where it makes sense, alone at the gym for example.

But I see groups of kids walking around, most of them with at least one or both headphones/earbuds on/in, and I'm like, what are you listening to? I can't imagine doing that.

But obviously some people like it, it's just not me 🤷‍♂️

That's just a lack of commitment. You're wearing the headphones so you can ignore them. Just ignore them until they are in your face. They'll get tired of doing that.

I used to work with someone who had a postit in the end of a cardboard tube that said "Leave me alone". They would stand it up on their desk when they needed to focus.

If I have headphones on, it is 100% because I don't want to hear anything outside of the headphones.

Transparency mode was a game changer for me

These are the people who will start the revolution

People who can't even talk to each other without going ballistic and screeching internally over any perceived slight

Safe to say, they will never achieve their revolution

"Oh, sry, I am listening to something right now and would appreciate not to be interrupted while I do so. If it's nothing important that you need to talk about right now I am more than happy to chat with you later on."

I got a lot of this kind of thing today, except it wasn't headphones it was an earpiece for a two way radio, and it was designed to not stand out.... So I kinda asked for it.

But then people would rudely relay important information on the radio with no regard for the conversation I'm having; and since the other person has no idea I just got earblasted with someone's voice, they keep yapping on about their insignificant drivel and I miss half the conversation because of the priority messages rudely coming through the radio.

I was volunteering, doing communications at a local fairground.... This weekend it was a renaissance faire. Fun.

I got a pair of bone-conduction headphones for that reason... joke is on me because I still have to pause it.