As someone who never listened to music on the subway he rode daily until recently, I think people are amazingly thin-skinned these days. It’s a noisy subway car, barreling down a tunnel, not mass.
There’s another good reason I like using an in-ear headphone—it blocks out external noise, too. I’ve been on long trips with my brother’s family and using an in-ear headphone allows me to listening to the audio on my iPod clearly even at freeway speeds and with other people talking in the vehicle.
Have you ever sat next to someone on Metro who was playing their ipod so loud that you could hear the F-WORD being repeated in a rap song for 20 minutes? I don’t think I am thin-skinned to think that is a bit much. The fact that the Metro is already noisy doesn’t make music leak OK. It makes it that much worse.
I thought the idea of headphones was to be able to hear while others could not. I guess I was mistaken!
Freedom is messy, chaotic and loud!
Deal with it. If you don’t like the “headphone leakage”, get a headphone and listen to what you want.
Sheesh.
Yeah no kidding. I mean this has been like this for AGES, even back to the walkman days. As a kid I remember riding those subway cars and hearing that little bit of noise coming from headphones.. people get upset over THAT now?
Thin skinned to say the least. Glad I no longer live in NYC and have to deal with the volume police.
“It’s a noisy subway car, barreling down a tunnel, not mass.”
Now that’s funny! I cannot stand a lot of noise but you are right we are all a bit thin skinned - me I’m just a grumpy old man at 49.
Mel