Does this really piss off anyone else?

[MonocleClaire]

Is it just me, or are people really ignorant when you're wearing headphones? I mean, if you're wearing them, you're clearly listening to something. And if you can't heat them over your headphones when they're talking -- having made no other attempt to draw your attention -- it's totally your fault.

Seriously. Does this piss off anybody else?

 

[InfiniteSingularity]

I bet they're really pissed off that you are antisocial enough have earphones in. But aside from that I agree, I don't want to be talked to and so I put some music on.

 

[Hiname]

I bet they're really pissed off that you are antisocial enough have earphones in.

So Im antisocial for having earphones in while I study beacuse I don't want to fuggin bother with something else around me?

 

[Fallingwater]

Never happens, but then I never wear headphone in the presence of people I might be interested in listening to.

 

[Iammatt]

yeah, it pisses me off if I'm in a public place around strangers and I'm just playing some music and a stranger's trying to talk to me, but usually if I'm around people I know I get more pissed off if someone I'm with has their headphones in, it's kind of rude

 

[Evidencebased]

A woman I work with has long hair and always wears earbuds, which are invisible under her hair. And then she spends hours staring into the microscope during dissections. To get her attention you have to figure out why she's ignoring your voice and then do a dance in her peripheral vision, then wait for her to 1) notice 2) look up 3) remove her lab gloves 4) remove her earbuds and 5) ask "what?"

To avoid this laborious process I usually just have my headphones over one ear, which is my signal that I'm available to talk/listen. And in any kind of work/communal situation you have to be willing to be interruptable. (Commuting is totally different; headphones fully on and "bitchface" loaded, ready to ignore the hell out of the sketchy bus people. )

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Yes, it's annoying. If I'm wandering about with headphones in I don't really understand why I have to be constantly ready for conversation with strangers. I know that sounds pretty antisocial (I've totally started singing Anthrax now), but I'm usually off in my own world anyway, and I don't really do conversations with randomers.

 

[Azaradel]

My mom does that all the time.

And it's not like I'm wearing ear buds that are easy to miss or anything. I'm wearing huge fucking headphones. How can she not see that I won't hear what she's saying?

And it never crosses her mind to go "Hey! Listen!" (hmm... apparently, I think of my mom as Navi) to alert me to the fact that she wants to talk to me either. Nope. Once I realize she's talking to me, she's halfway through the fucking conversation.

Actually... my sister does the exact same thing, too. Maybe I'm just surrounded by idiots?

 

[Something Amyss]

Is it just me, or are people really ignorant when you're wearing headphones? I mean, if you're wearing them, you're clearly listening to something. And if you can't heat them over your headphones when they're talking -- having made no other attempt to draw your attention -- it's totally your fault.

Seriously. Does this piss off anybody else?

Get that all the time.

Ironically, I've been told for years that my headphones and sunglasses make me unapproachable. So it's really weird.

 

[MonocleClaire]

When someone approaches you to speak, stop being a rude turd and take off the headphones to listen to them.

90% of the time I have headphones on, I'm looking at the computer screen and the person speaking is behind me.

 

[Takumashii]

I don't wear headphones in public places, and when I do wear them the volume is low enough so I can still hear other things.

 

[Rawne1980]

I don't need headphones to ignore random strangers.

 

[RagnarokHybrid]

My rule of thumb is that I'll have time to listen to it elsewhere. What I'm listening to is probably not going anywhere.

And think about it, putting on headphones when you're with someone may make that person feel kind of lonely. With earbuds, I keep the volume low enough to hear people and with headphones I keep one end in and the other around my neck.

No one likes to be ignored--someone may think that headphones are your way of ignoring them. It's a tad juvenile, yes. But everyone feels lonely sometimes and earphones were made so that the wearer doesn't disturb others, not to shut the wearer off from the world... (Don't quote me on that).

 

[Thaluikhain]

Not happened to me. On the other hand, I've had similar problems when using a whipper snipper, and me dad tries to tell me something.

This is particularly annoying because he can obviously hear the fucking thing, and using the whipper snipper pisses me off anyway.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

No one i can recall has been seriously been offended or offended me for listening to music.
I almost always wear headphones when i'm doing something boring outside.
Do you people live in rude city?